Dyscinetus morator (Fabricius, 1798)

Moore, Matthew R., Cave, Ronald D. & Branham, Marc A., 2018, Annotated catalog and bibliography of the cyclocephaline scarab beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Dynastinae, Cyclocephalini), ZooKeys 745, pp. 101-378 : 234-235

Dyscinetus morator (Fabricius, 1798)

Scarabaeus morator Fabricius, 1798: 24 [original combination].

Geotrupes morator (Fabricius) [new combination by Schönherr 1806: 22].

Heteronychus morator (Fabricius) [new combination by Burmeister 1847: 97].

Dyscinetus morator (Fabricius) [new combination by Arrow 1937b: 17].

syn. Dyscinetus (Dyscinetus) bitumorosus Casey, 1915: 171 [original combination].

Dyscinetus bitumorosus Casey [removal of subgeneric classification by Arrow 1937b: 17].

Dyscinetus morator (Fabricius) [synonymy by Endrődi 1966: 393].

syn. Dyscinetus (Dyscinetus) borealis Casey, 1915: 171 [original combination].

Dyscinetus morator (Fabricius) [synonymy by Arrow 1937b: 18].

syn. Dyscinetus (Dyscinetus) trachypygus discedens Casey, 1915: 171 [original combination].

Dyscinetus morator (Fabricius) [synonymy by Arrow 1937b: 18].

syn. Chalepus trachypygus Burmeister, 1847: 79 [original combination].

Dyscinetus trachypygus (Burmeister) [new combination by Harold 1869a: 123].

Dyscinetus morator (Fabricius) [synonymy by Prell 1937a: 186].

Types.

Lectotype ♂ of S. morator deposited at ZMUK, now housed at ZMUC ( Endrődi 1966). Lectotype ♂ of C. trachypygus at MLUH ( Endrődi 1966). Types of the Casey synonyms at USNM ( Endrődi 1966).

Distribution.

BAHAMAS: Andros, Eleuthera, Great Exuma, Rum Cay, San Salvador. CANADA: Ontario. MEXICO: Coahuila, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, Veracruz. UNITED STATES: Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia.

References.

Burmeister 1847, Melsheimer et al. 1853, Reiche 1859, Harold 1869b, Crotch 1873, Popenoe 1876, Schwarz 1878, Henshaw 1885, Smith 1910, King 1914, Casey 1915, Smyth 1915, 1916, Scammell 1917, Leng 1920, Dawson 1922, Leonard 1923, Phillips and Fox 1924, Blatchley 1930, Arrow 1937b, Sanderson 1940, Montgomery and Amos 1940, McAtee 1940, Blackwelder 1944, Saylor 1945, Blackwelder and Blackwelder 1948, Brower 1958, Richmond 1962, Zimsen 1964, Frost 1964, 1966, Moss and Funk 1965, Carrillo-S. et al. 1966, Fincher et al. 1969, Roth et al. 1972, Pfeiffer and Axtell 1980, Endrődi 1966, 1985a, Morrill 1979, Anonymous 1953, 1956, 1971, 1980, Gordon and Anderson 1981, Foster et al. 1986, Buckingham and Bennett 1989, Staines 1984, 1990, Price and Kring 1991, Forschler and Gardner 1991, Hardy 1991, Crocker et al. 1992, Poole and Gentili 1996, Peck and Thomas 1998, Flanders et al. 2000, Ratcliffe 1991, 2002b, Riley and Wolfe 2003, Shockley and Cline 2004, Buss 2006, Ratcliffe and Paulsen 2008, Smith 2003, 2009, Krajcik 2005, 2012, Ratcliffe et al. 2013, Woodruff 1970, 1973, 2013, Ratcliffe and Cave 2008, 2015, Chong and Hinson 2015, Ratcliffe, but Cave 2017.

Remarks.

Dyscinetus morator was recorded from Brazil ( Riehs 2005) and these data may need to be reevaluated. Records of D. morator from Cuba ( Gundlach 1891, Leng and Mutchler 1914, Blackwelder 1944, Ratcliffe and Cave 2008), Puerto Rico ( Smyth 1915, 1916), and Guatemala ( Casey 1915, Endrődi 1966, 1985a) were not verified by major faunistic studies ( Ratcliffe et al. 2013, Ratcliffe and Cave 2015).