Onthophagus osculatii Guérin-Méneville, 1855

Fig. 61B

Ontophagus [sic] osculatii Guérin-Méneville, 1855: 589 (original description). Type locality: Brazil: Amazonas: Manicoré, BR-319 highway, Km 350, 05°12′56.4″ S, 61°50′22.6″ W. Name-bearing type: neotype (RBINS), designated by Rossini et al. (2018a), not examined.

Onthophagus osculatii – Harold 1869d: 1034 (catalogue); 1880: 30 (comments). — Gillet & Boucomont 1927: 207 (catalogue). — Boucomont 1932: 305 (synopsis). — Balthasar 1941: 352 (list); 1951: 338 (list). — Blackwelder 1944: 212 (list). — Vulcano & Pereira 1967: 564 (synopsis). — Martínez 1987: 69 (distribution). — Zunino & Halffter 1997: 161 (classification). — Escobar 2000: 209 (checklist for Colombia). — Medina et al. 2001: 140 (checklist for Colombia). — Pulido-Herrera & Zunino 2007: 112 (catalogue). — Hamel-Leigue et al. 2008: 43 (diversity). — Medina & Pulido-Herrera 2009: 61 (diversity). — Ratcliffe et al. 2015: (list for Peru). — Silva et al. 2017: 490 (list). — Rossini et al. 2018a: 553 (revision, designation of neotype); 2018b: 10 (list of species of the osculatii complex). — Hielkema & Hielkema 2019: 92 (catalogue for Guianas). — Storck-Tonon et al. 2020: 2426, 2432 (biodiversity).

Onthophagus (Onthophagus) osculatii – Vaz-de-Mello 2000: 194 (checklist for Brazil). — Chamorro et al. 2018: 97 (cited for Ecuador); 2019: 195 (catalogue for Ecuador).

Material examined

VENEZUELA ‒ Bolívar • 1 ♂; Isla de Anacoco; 09 Aug. 2005; no collector; CEMT .

Distribution

Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia (Rossini et al. 2018a).

Subregions of Venezuela

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

Literature records

Rossini et al. 2018a: 553 (Venezuela: Bolívar and Yaracuy). — Storck-Tonon et al. 2020: 2426, 2432 (Venezuela).