Tomarus maimon Erichson, 1847

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 : 213

Tomarus maimon Erichson, 1847

Tomarus maimon Erichson 1847: 96 ( Peru)

= Heteronychus fossator Burmeister 1847: 101 ( French Guiana) - López-García and Deloya 2018: 335 (syn. nov.)

Distribution. Guyana: Dupuis 2016a: 31 (as Tomarus maimon fossator ), 2016b: 107, 110 (as Tomarus maimon fossator ); López-García and Deloya 2018: 335. French Guiana: Burmeister 1847: 101 (as Heteronychus fossator ); Dupuis 2016a: 31 (as Tomarus maimon fossator ), 2016b: 107, 110 (as Tomarus maimon fossator ); López-García and Deloya 2018: 335. “Guianas”: Arrow 1937b: 37, 38 (as Ligyrus fossator ); Blackwelder 1944: 254 (as Ligyrus fossator ). Brazil: Blackwelder 1944: 254 (as Ligyrus fossator ); Endrödi 1969a: 68 (as Ligyrus (Tomarus) maimon ), 1985a: 262 (as Ligyrus (Tomarus) maimon ); Dupuis 2016a: 31 (as Tomarus maimon fossator ) (?); López-García et al. 2016: 503; López-García and Deloya 2018: 335. Other: Erichson 1847: 96 ( Peru); Arrow 1937b: 37, 38 ( Peru - as Ligyrus maimon ); Blackwelder 1944: 254 ( Peru - as Ligyrus maimon ); Endrödi 1969a: 68 ( Colombia, Ecuador, Peru - as Ligyrus (Tomarus) maimon ), 1985a: 262 ( Colombia, Ecuador, Peru - as Ligyrus (Tomarus) maimon ); Ponchel 2011 (not mentioned); Dupuis 2016a: 31 ( Chile, Ecuador, Peru); López-García et al. 2016: 503 ( Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru); López-García and Deloya 2018: 335 ( Chile, Ecuador, Peru).

Note. Heteronychus fossator is synonymized with Tomarus maimon in Endrödi (1969a: 68) . This is undone in Dupuis (2016a: 31), where fossator is elevated to the status of a valid subspecies of maimon . The synonymization is reinstated in López-García and Deloya (2018: 335).