Stenocrates laborator (Fabricius, 1775)

Moore, Matthew R., Cave, Ronald D. & Branham, Marc A., 2018, Annotated catalog and bibliography of the cyclocephaline scarab beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Dynastinae, Cyclocephalini), ZooKeys 745, pp. 101-378 : 255

Stenocrates laborator (Fabricius, 1775)

Scarabaeus laborator Fabricius: 18 [original combination].

Geotrupes laborator (Fabricius) [new combination by Eschscholtz 1822: 121].

Stenocrates laborator (Fabricius) [new combination by Burmeister 1847: 85].

syn. Geotrupes globator Thunberg, 1814: 400 [original combination].

Stenocrates laborator (Fabricius) [synonymy by Endrődi 1966: 430].

syn. Geotrupes thoracicus Eschscholtz, 1818: 453-454 [original combination].

Geotrupes laborator var. thoracicus Eschscholtz [new infrasubspecific status by Eschscholtz 1822: 121].

Stenocrates laborator var. thoracicus (Eschscholtz) [new combination by Arrow 1937b: 19].

Stenocrates laborator (Fabricius) [synonymy by Endrődi 1985a: 184].

syn. Stenocrates australis Endrődi, 1973b: 319 [original combination].

Stenocrates laborator (Fabricius) [synonymy by Ratcliffe 2015: 778].

Types.

Type of S. laborator at BMNH ( Endrődi 1966). The types of G. globator and G. thoracicus were not found by Endrődi (1966). Holotype ♂ of S. laborator australis at NHMB (Frey Collection) ( Endrődi 1973b).

Distribution.

ARGENTINA. BOLIVIA. BRAZIL: Acre, Amazonas, Espírito Santo, Mato Grosso, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo. COLOMBIA: Valle del Cauca. PARAGUAY: Alto Paraná, Caaguazú, Itapúa. SURINAME.

References.

Fabricius 1775, Olivier 1789, Thunberg 1814, Eschscholtz 1818, 1822, Dejean 1833, 1836b, Burmeister 1847, Harold 1869b, Bates 1888, Luederwaldt 1915, Arrow 1937b, Blackwelder 1944, Robinson 1947, Lima 1953, Zimsen 1964, Endrődi 1966, 1967c, 1973b, 1985a, Restrepo et al. 2003, Gasca-Álvarez and Amat-García 2010, Krajcik 2005, 2012, Ratcliffe et al. 2013, Ratcliffe 2015.

Remarks.

Stenocrates laborator was reported from Mexico and Guatemala ( Bates 1888, Arrow 1937b, Blackwelder 1944, Endrődi 1966, 1985a). These records are likely based on misidentifications, and S. laborator is a South American species ( Ratcliffe et al. 2013).