Hemiphileurus depressus (Fabricius, 1801)

Geotrupes depressus Fabricius 1801a: 18 (Guyana - LECTOTYPE)

= Hemiphileurus deplanatus Endrödi 1978: 92 (Peru)

Distribution. Guyana: Erichson 1848: 561 (as Phileurus depressus); Chalumeau 1988: 397 (designation LECTOTYPE Geotrupes depressus). French Guiana: Endrödi 1978: 92 (as Hemiphileurus deplanatus), 1985a: 716; Chalumeau 1988: 397; Brûlé et al. 2011a: 191; Duranton 2011: 24; Ponchel 2011: 61; Dupuis 2016b: 110. Other: Fabricius 1801a: 18 (South America - as Geotrupes depressus); Arrow 1937b: 88 (none); Blackwelder 1944: 258 (none); Endrödi 1978: 92 (Ecuador, Peru - as H. deplanatus), 1985a: 716 (Ecuador, Peru - as H. deplanatus); Chalumeau 1988: 397 (Peru - as H. deplanatus); Ratcliffe 2001: 441 (Colombia).

Note. The specimens which Endrödi (1978: 91, 1985a: 715) identifies as Hemiphileurus depressus belong, according to Chalumeau (1988: 397), to a new species which he describes as H. hiekei (p. 399) and which appears to be restricted to Colombia and Ecuador.