Phileurus excavatus Prell, 1911

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 : 224

§ Phileurus excavatus Prell, 1911

Phileurus excavatus Prell 1911: 106 ( Brazil)

Distribution. French Guiana: Duranton 2011: 25 (?). Brazil: Prell 1911: 106; Arrow 1937b: 90; Blackwelder 1944: 258; Endrödi 1978: 105, 1985a: 722. Other: Endrödi 1978: 105 ( Colombia, Mexico, Panama, Peru); Endrödi 1985a: 722 (Brazil–Mexico); Ponchel 2011 (not mentioned); Ratcliffe et al. 2013: 600 (not in Mesoamerica, only South America); Dupuis 2016b (not mentioned).

Note 1. Duranton (2011: 25) notes he saw no definite specimens of Phileurus excavatus from French Guiana, and the species is not mentioned in the checklists for French Guiana by Ponchel (2011) and Dupuis (2016b). There are no definite records from the research area for this species, and we regard it as not occurring there.

Note 2. Endrödi (1978: 105, 1985a: 722) records Phileurus excavatus for, among other countries, Mexico and Panama. Ratcliffe et al. (2013: 600) mention this, but state they have not seen any specimens from Central America. They consider this species to be restricted to South America.