Podischnus agenor ( Olivier, 1789 )

Hielkema, Auke J. & Hielkema, Meindert A., 2019, An annotated checklist of the Scarabaeoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Guianas, Insecta Mundi 732 (732), pp. 1-306 : 203

Podischnus agenor ( Olivier, 1789)

Scarabaeus agenor Olivier 1789: 178 (none - LECTOTYPE)

Distribution. Suriname: NBPS - NEW COUNTRY RECORD (Suriname, [Para], Zanderij.). French Guiana: Gasca-Álvarez and Ratcliffe 2011: 31. Brazil (NA): Blackwelder 1944: 257; Endrödi 1976: 56, 1985a: 578; Lachaume 1992: 38; Gasca-Álvarez et al. 2008: 38 (NA); Gasca-Álvarez and Ratcliffe 2011: 31. Venezuela: Endrödi 1976: 56; Gasca-Álvarez and Ratcliffe 2011: 31. Other: Olivier 1789: 178 (none - as Scarabaeus agenor ); Arrow 1937b: 73 (Colombia, Mexico, Panama); Blackwelder 1944: 257 (Belize, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama); Dechambre 1975: 85 (Panama - designation NEO- TYPE Scarabaeus agenor ); Endrödi 1976: 56 (Colombia - designation NEOTYPE Scarabaeus agenor , Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Peru), 1985a: 578 (Brazil–Mexico); Lachaume 1992: 38 (Brazil–Mexico); Gasca-Álvarez et al. 2008: 38 (Central America, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru); Gasca-Álvarez and Ratcliffe 2011: 31 (Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru); Ponchel 2011 (not mentioned); Dupuis and Mantilleri 2012: 177 (Colombia - designation LECTOTYPE Scarabaeus agenor ); Ratcliffe et al. 2013: 385 (Colombia/ Ecuador/Peru–Mexico); Dupuis 2016b (not mentioned); Hielkema 2017: 11 (none - designation LECTO- TYPE Scarabaeus agenor ).

Note. The validity of the neotypes of Scarabaeus agenor designated in Dechambre (1975: 85) and Endrödi (1976: 56) and the lectotype designated in Dupuis and Mantilleri (2012: 177) is discussed in Hielkema (2017: 11).