Onthophagus hircus Billberg, 1815

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 : 91

Onthophagus hircus Billberg, 1815

Onthophagus hircus Billberg 1815: 274 ( Brazil - LECTOTYPE)

= Onthophagus hirculus Mannerheim 1829: 39 ( Brazil - LECTOTYPE) - Rossini et al. 2018b: 6 (syn. nov.)

Distribution. French Guiana: Boucomont 1932: 326 (as O. hirculus ). Brazil: Billberg 1815: 274; Mannerheim 1829: 39 (as O. hirculus ); Gillet and Boucomont 1927: 206; Boucomont 1932: 326 (as O. hirculus ; as O. hircus ); Blackwelder 1944: 211; Vaz-de-Mello 2000: 194 (as O. (Onthophagus) hirculus ; as O. (Onthophagus) hircus ); Pulido Herrera and Zunino 2007: 105 (as O. hirculus ; as O. hircus ); Rossini et al. 2018b: 6 (designation LECTOTYPE Onthophagus hirculus ; designation LECTOTYPE Onthophagus hircus ). Other: Gillet and Boucomont 1927: 206 (South America - as O. hirculus ); Boucomont 1932: 326 ( Argentina, Bolivia, Cuba, Paraguay, Uruguay - as O. hirculus ); Blackwelder 1944: 211 ( Argentina, South America - as O. hirculus ); Medina et al. 2001: 139 ( Colombia - as O. hirculus ); Pulido Herrera and Zunino 2007: 105 ( Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Paraguay, Uruguay - as O. hirculus ).

Note. To our knowledge, the only record of Onthophagus hircus for the research area is given in Boucomont (1932: 326) as O. hirculus for French Guiana. The lack of recent records makes us doubt its occurrence in the Guianas. We consider the presence of this species in the research area in need of confirmation.