Dichotomius fallax ( Harold, 1880 )

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 : 97-98

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https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2024.959.2677

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scientific name

Dichotomius fallax ( Harold, 1880 )
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Dichotomius fallax ( Harold, 1880) View in CoL

Fig. 39A View Fig

Pinotus fallax Harold, 1880: 26 View in CoL (original description). Type locality: Colombia: Cundinamarca: Tequendama: La Mesa; and Venezuela: Distrito Capital: Caracas. Name-bearing type: syntypes (MNHN), examined by FZVM.

Pinotus (Selenocopris) fallax View in CoL – Luederwaldt 1929: 64 (key).

Pinotus fallax View in CoL – Gillet 1911b: 60 (catalogue). — Gacharná 1951: 222 (list for Colombia). — Balthasar 1941: 349 (list, characteristics); 1951: 334 (list). — Blackwelder 1944: 207 (checklist).

Dichotomius fallax View in CoL – Roze 1955: 44 (cited, checklist for Venezuela). — Vulcano & Pereira 1967: 587 (key). — Medina et al. 2001: 138 (checklist for Colombia). — Larsen et al. 2008: 1294 (list).

Material examined

VENEZUELA ‒ Bolívar • 1 spec.; El Manteco; 5 Aug. 2006; curso NM2006 leg.; heces, 24h, 08:00; CEMT 2 specs; Campo Minero, Río Yuruani , El Dorado; 190 m; 23‒30 May 1987; CEMT 1 spec.; Las Piñas , 30 km E of Paragua; 12 Apr. 1983; C. Bordon leg.; CEMT . ‒ Yaracuy • 1 spec.; Bolívar, Aroa ; 10°0′0″ N, 68°0′0″ W; 483 m; 19 Jul. 2009; M. Assmüssen, P Colmenares and H. Martínez leg.; human faeces; CEMT GoogleMaps . ‒ Zulia • 1 spec.; Rosario de Perijá ; 18 Jul. 2006; curso NM2006 leg.; faeces, 23h, 13:09; CEMT .

Distribution

Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago (new country record, CEMT), Brazil (new country record, CEMT) and Peru.

Subregions of Venezuela

Maracaibo Depression, System of hills and low piedmont mountains of the Guiana Shield, System of low mountains and hills Imataca-Cuyuní del Escudo Northeast Guiana, and Central Coast Mountain Range.

Literature records

Harold 1880: 26 ( Venezuela: Caracas). — Gillet 1911b: 60 ( Venezuela). — Luederwaldt 1929: 64 ( Venezuela). — Balthasar 1941: 349 ( Venezuela); 1951: 334 ( Venezuela).— Blackwelder 1944: 207 ( Venezuela). — Vulcano & Pereira 1967: 587 ( Venezuela). — Larsen et al. 2008: 1294 ( Venezuela: Bolívar: Lago Guri).

Balthasar V. 1941. Scarabaeidae Laparostictae (Col.). Beitrage Fauna Perus 1: 337 - 358.

Balthasar V. 1951. Scarabaeidae Laparostictae (Col.). Beitrage Fauna Perus 2: 322 - 344.

Blackwelder R. E. 1944. Checklist of the coleopterous insects of Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, and South America. Part 2. United States National Museum Bulletin 185: 189 - 341. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 03629236.185.2

Gacharna C. 1951. Catalogo de los coleopteros colombianos. Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Fisicas y Naturales 8: 220 - 229.

Gillet J. J. E. 1911 b. Coleopterorum Catalogus. Pars 38: Scarabaeidae: Coprinae I. W. Junk, Berlin. Available from https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 48405679 [accesseed 16 Feb. 2024].

Harold E. 1880. Verzeichniss der von Dr. Steinheil in Neu-Granada gesammelten Coprophagen Lamellicornien. Entomologische Zeitung 41: 13 - 46.

Larsen T. H., Lopera A. & Forsyth A. 2008. Understanding trait-dependent community disassembly: dung beetles, density functions, and forest fragmentation. Conservation Biology 22 (5): 1288 - 1298. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1523 - 1739.2008.00969. x

Luederwaldt H. 1929. As especies brasileiras do genero Pinotus, com algumas consideracoes tambem sobre outras especies. Revista do Museu Paulista 16: 603 - 775.

Medina C. A., Lopera-Toro A., Vitolo A. & Gill B. 2001. Escarabajos coprofagos (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) de Colombia. Biota Colombiana 2: 131 - 144.

Roze J. A. 1955. Lista preliminar de la familia Scarabaeidae sensu lato de Venezuela. Boletin del Museo de Ciencias Naturales 1 (1): 39 - 63.

Vulcano M. A. & Pereira F. S. 1967. Sinopse dos Passalidae e Scarabaeidae s. str. da regiao amazonica (Insecta, Coleoptera). Atas do Simposio sobre a Biota Amazonica 5: 533 - 603.

Gallery Image

Fig. 39. Species distribution. A. Dichotomius fallax (Harold, 1880). B. Dichotomius henripittieri Montoya-Molina & Vaz-de-Mello, 2021. C. Male of D. henripittieri. D. Female of D. henripittieri. Green diamond = CEMT collection data; black circle = literature data.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

SubFamily

Scarabaeinae

Genus

Dichotomius