Dichotomius robustus ( Luederwaldt, 1935 )

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 : 106-108

Dichotomius robustus ( Luederwaldt, 1935)

Fig. 42B

Pinotus robustus Luederwaldt, 1935: 337 (original description). Type locality: Guyana: Cuyuni- Mazaruni: Essequibo River, Moraballi Creek. Name-bearing type: lectotype (BMNH), designated by Rossini & Vaz-de-Mello (2020), not examined.

Pinotus robustus – Blackwelder 1944: 208 (checklist). Dichotomius (Dichotomius) robustus – Vulcano & Pereira 1967: 584 (key). — Escobar 2000: 208

(checklist for Colombia). — Medina et al. 2001: 138 (checklist for Colombia). — Feer 2008: 54,

56, 62 (ecology); 2013: 767 (list for French Guiana). — Medina & Pulido-Herrera 2009: 60 (list for Orinoquía, Colombia). — Sarmiento-Garcés & Amat-García 2009: 292, 295 (diagnosis, key). — Larsen 2011: 98, 102 (list for Suriname); 2013: 96, 100 (list for Suriname). — Vaz-de-Mello et al. 2011b: 88 (list). — Nunes et al. 2014: 408–410 (cited, list). — Silva et al. 2014: 349 (ecology); 2017: 490 (list). — Feer & Boissier 2015: 169 (list). — Ratcliffe et al. 2015: 196 (checklist for Peru). — Santos et al. 2018: 46 (list for Acre state, Brazil). — Rossini & Vaz-de-Mello 2020: 63 (revision, distribution, diagnosis).

Distribution

Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia.

Subregions of Venezuela

System of low mountains and hills Imataca-Cuyuní of Northeast Guyana Shield, and Guiana Shield.

Literature record

Rossini & Vaz-de-Mello 2020: 63 ( Venezuela: Bolívar).

Figures

Fig. 42. Species distribution. A. Dichotomius protectus (Harold, 1867). B. Dichotomius robustus (Luederwaldt, 1935). Green diamond = CEMT collection data; black circle = literature data.