Ateuchus simplex (Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau & Audinet-Serville, 1828)

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 : 24-26

Ateuchus simplex (Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau & Audinet-Serville, 1828)

Fig. 11A

Choeridium simplex Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau & Audinet-Serville, 1828: 356 (original description). Type locality: French Guiana. Name-bearing type: syntypes lost (MC, pers. obs.).

Choeridium simplex – Harold 1869d: 1007 (catalogue, cited for Cayenne). — Gillet 1911b: 53 (catalogue, cited for Cayenne). — Balthasar 1939c: 64 (cited for French Guiana, Amazonas, Peru and Ecuador); 1941: 347 (cited for Peru). — Blackwelder 1944: 204 (checklist of species, cited for French Guiana).

Ateuchus simplex – Roze 1955: 44 (checklist for Venezuela). — Vulcano & Pereira 1967: 588 (cited for northern South America). — Feer 2000: 31 (list, cited for French Guiana); 2008: 56, 62 (ecology); 2013: 766 (list French Guiana). — Feer & Pincebourde 2005: 29 (ecological study). — Brûlé et al. 2011a: 193 (list, cited for French Guiana). — Larsen 2011: 97 (cited for Suriname); 2013: 95 (cited for Suriname). — Brûlé & Dalens 2012: 37 (list, cited for French Guiana). — Price & Feer 2012: 327 (sampling). — Feer & Boissier 2015: 169 (list). — Ratcliffe et al. 2015: 196 (checklist for Peru). — Hielkema & Hielkema 2019: 44 (catalogue for the Guianas).

Material examined

VENEZUELA ‒ Bolívar • 2 ♂♂; Sifontes, Cuyuní River, Isla de Anacoco ; 6 Aug. 2006; no collector; in dung; CEMT .

Distribution

Venezuela, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, and Peru.

Subregions of Venezuela

System of low mountains and hills Imataca-Cuyuní of Escudo Northeast Guiana, and Central Coast Mountain Range.

Literature record

Roze 1955: 44 ( Venezuela: Miranda: El Tuy [Valle del Tuy]).

Figures

Fig. 11. Species distribution.A. Ateuchus simplex (Le Peletier & Serville, 1828).B. Ateuchus substriatus (Harold, 1868). Green diamond = CEMT collection data; black circle = literature data.