Isocopris imitator Felsche, 1901

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 : 222

Isocopris imitator Felsche, 1901

Dichotomius imitator Felsche, 1901: 136 (original description). Type locality: Brazil: Pará. Name-bearing type: lectotype (SMTD), designated by Rossini & Vaz-de-Mello (2017), examined by FZVM.

Pinotus latistriatus Luederwaldt, 1935: 335 . Type locality: Brazil: Pará: Santarém. Name-bearing type: lectotype (BMNH), designated by Rossini & Vaz-de-Mello (2017), examined by FZVM.

Distribution

The actual extension is still dubious. The specimens examined in the revision by Rossini & Vaz-de-Mello (2017) originate almost exclusively from Amazonian areas in Brazil south of the Amazon River. The only exception was a single, old BMNH specimen labelled as coming from Cayenne ( French Guiana), incidentally a paralectotype of the junior synonym Pinotus latistriatus Luederwaldt, 1935 . If this were the only report north of the Amazon apart from Roze’s (1955) from Venezuela, one could disregard it on the basis of probable mislabelling and treat Roze’s (1955) as resulting from a likely misidentification. Nevertheless, more recently, Hielkema & Hielkema (2019), presumably using Rossini & Vaz-de-Mello’s revision, reported the identification of material from another area in the Guianas, Suriname. This makes both the Cayenne and Venezuelan reports more plausible. The two specimens studied by Roze need to be reassessed in order to check their identity and confirm the presence of the species in Venezuela.

Literature record

Roze 1955: 44 ( Venezuela: Guárico: Sosa).