Gromphas jardim Cupello & Vaz-de-Mello, 2015

Cupello, Mario, 2024, The genus Gromphas Dejean, 1836 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeinae): nomenclature, distribution, and conservation, including a contribution to the debate on electronic publications in zoology, Zoosystema 46 (2), pp. 23-59 : 35

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/zoosystema2024v46a2
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10666744
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scientific name	Gromphas jardim Cupello & Vaz-de-Mello, 2015
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Gromphas jardim Cupello & Vaz-de-Mello, 2015 View in CoL

Gromphas jardim Cupello & Vaz-de-Mello, 2015: 4 View in CoL View Cited Treatment [12th October 2015; see discussion below].

NAME-BEARING TYPE. — Holotype by original designation (male), OUMNH. GoogleMaps

TYPE LOCALITY. — Bolivia: Beni: Moxos, Río Ichiguita , 155 m, 15°08’S, 65°18’W, savanna habitat.

ETYMOLOGY. — The masculine singular nominative of the proper noun Jardim, a Portuguese surname meaning ‘garden’, used in apposition. It is an eponym after my beloved maternal grandfather and Brazilian airline pilot Arlindo da Silva Jardim (1923-2014), who died in the same week I realised this species was new while examining specimens at the Oxford and London museums.

DISTRIBUTION. — Open savannas, pastures and perhaps river sandbanks in the Beni Savanna of Bolivia (in the Mamoré River Basin) and the western Brazilian Cerrado (on the northern fringes of the Pantanal wetlands).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Coleoptera
Family	Scarabaeidae
Genus	Gromphas