Oryctoderus latitarsis Boisduval, 1835

Prokofiev, Artem M., 2016, On the Phytophagous Scarabs of the Subfamilies Dynastinae, Rutelinae, and Melolonthinae from the Schouten Islands (Kepulauan Biak), Indonesian Papua (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), Species Diversity 21, pp. 71-77 : 71

Oryctoderus latitarsis Boisduval, 1835

Oryctoderus latitarsis Boisduval, 1835: 160 .

Material. 2 males, Indonesia, Papua, Biak I ., Biak Utar, near Napdori village , 2–3 km from right bank of Air Napdori river, black light, 10– 11.11.2012, A . M . Prokofiev leg.; 23 males, 28 females, Yapen I., northern coast, Rosbori village , black light, 13– 14.11.2012, A . M . Prokofiev leg.

Remarks. This species is widely distributed throughout New Guinea and on adjacent islands westward to the Kei and Tanimbar Is. ( Endrödi 1985). All the specimens collected were associated with coconut palms. It was extremely abundant in the coconut groves on the border of a disturbed primary forest.