Aspidolea helleri ( Höhne, 1922 )

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 : 160

Aspidolea helleri ( Höhne, 1922)

Paraspidolea helleri Höhne 1922b: 371 ( French Guiana)

Distribution. Suriname: Endrödi 1985a: 149; Moore et al. 2018b: 124. French Guiana: Höhne 1922b: 371 (as Paraspidolea helleri ); Endrödi 1966a: 351; Dechambre 1979c: 167; Duranton 2011: 17 (?); Moore et al. 2018b: 124. “Guianas”: Arrow 1937b: 7 (as Paraspidolea helleri ); Blackwelder 1944: 250 (as Paraspidolea helleri ). Brazil: Dechambre 1979c: 167; Moore et al. 2018b: 124.

Note. Duranton (2011: 17) notes he saw no definite specimens of Aspidolea helleri from French Guiana, and the species is not mentioned in the checklists for French Guiana by Ponchel (2011) and Dupuis (2016b). However, it was described from French Guiana, and all records known to us are from French Guiana, Suriname and the Brazilian state of Pará. As Dechambre (1979c: 167) notes that this species is very similar to A. bleuzeni , it may either be synonymous with that species or be misidentified as it.