Deltochilum icarus ( Olivier, 1789 )

Rosa, Cecilia Lozano De La, Cupello, Mario & Vaz-De-Mello, Fernando Z., 2024, The dung beetles of Venezuela (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae): catalogue and updated distribution, European Journal of Taxonomy 959 (1), pp. 1-272 : 77

Deltochilum icarus ( Olivier, 1789)

Fig. 30B

Scarabaeus icarus Olivier 1789: 155 (original description).Type locality: South America. Name-bearing type: lectotype (BMNH), designated by González-Alvarado & Vaz-de-Mello (2014), examined by FZVM.

Distribution

Venezuela, Suriname, French Guiana, and Brazil ( González-Alvarado & Vaz-de-Mello 2014).

Subregions of Venezuela

System of hills and low piedmont mountains of the Guiana Shield.

Literature records

González-Alvarado & Vaz-de-Mello 2014: 456 ( Venezuela: Bolívar: 6 km S of San Isidro). — Hielkema & Hielkema 2019: 78 ( Venezuela).

Remarks

The CEMT houses no Venezuelan specimens of Deltochilum icarus , but González-Alvarado & Vaz-de-Mello (2014) mention the presence of a male and a female from the state of Bolívar in the CMNC. Since their work is a complete monograph of the subgenus Hybomidium Shipp, 1897 , including the study of the types and the delimitation of species boundaries, we consider it unlikely they would have misidentified the specimens. Moreover, the confirmed presence of the species in northern Amazonian areas in the Guianas and Brazil lends further credence to their Venezuelan record. We, thus, accept the species as certainly present in the country.

Figures

Fig. 30. Species distribution. A. Deltochilum guildingii (Westwood, 1835). B. Deltochilum icarus (Olivier, 1789). Green diamond = CEMT collection data; black circle = literature data.