Tomarus fossor ( Latreille, 1813 )

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 : 212

Tomarus fossor ( Latreille, 1813)

Scarabaeus fossor Latreille 1813: 11 (equinoctial America)

Distribution. French Guiana: Blackwelder 1944: 254 (as Ligyrus fossor ). Brazil: Blackwelder 1944: 254 (as Ligyrus fossor ); Endrödi 1969a: 54 (as Ligyrus (Ligyrus) fossor ), 1985a: 255 (as Ligyrus (Ligyrus) fossor ); Ratcliffe 2003: 276 (?); Escalona and Joly 2006: 118 (as Ligyrus fossor ); López-García et al. 2015: 482, 2016: 502. Venezuela (EO): Arrow 1937b: 37 (as Ligyrus fossor ); Blackwelder 1944: 254 (as Ligyrus fossor ); Endrödi 1969a: 54 (as Ligyrus (Ligyrus) fossor ) (EO), 1985a: 255 (as Ligyrus (Ligyrus) fossor ); Ratcliffe 2003: 276; Escalona and Joly 2006: 118 (as Ligyrus fossor ) (EO); López-García et al. 2015: 482, 2016: 502. Other: Latreille 1813: 11 (equinoctial America - as Scarabaeus fossor ); Arrow 1937b: 37 (Colombia, Panama - as Ligyrus fossor ); Blackwelder 1944: 254 (Argentina, Colombia, Cuba, Panama, Puerto Rico - as Ligyrus fossor ); Endrödi 1969a: 54 (Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Curaçao, Jamaica, Puerto Rico - as Ligyrus (Ligyrus) fossor ), 1985a: 255 (Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico - as Ligyrus (Ligyrus) fossor ); Ratcliffe 2003: 276 (Bolivia?, Colombia, Cuba?, Jamaica?, Panama, Puerto Rico?); Escalona and Joly 2006: 118 (Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Jamaica, Panama, Puerto Rico - as Ligyrus fossor ); Ponchel 2011 (not mentioned); López-García et al. 2015: 482 (Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Curaçao, Ecuador, El Salvador, Jamaica, Puerto Rico), 2016: 502 (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Panama, West Indies); Dupuis 2016b (not mentioned).

Note 1. The year of publication of Tomarus fossor is sometimes erroneously given as 1833. Note 2. The only record of Tomarus fossor from the Guianas that we are aware of is one from French Guiana given in Blackwelder (1944: 254). Based on the lack of recent records, we suspect Blackwelder’s record is based on a mislabeled or misidentified specimen. A record from the state of Bolívar in Venezuela was given in Endrödi (1969a: 54) and repeated in Escalona and Joly (2006: 118). We regard this species as potentially occurring in the Guianas.