Anomiopus smaragdinus ( Westwood, 1842 )

Rosa, Cecilia Lozano De La, Cupello, Mario & Vaz-De-Mello, Fernando Z., 2024, The dung beetles of Venezuela (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae): catalogue and updated distribution, European Journal of Taxonomy 959 (1), pp. 1-272 : 15-16

Anomiopus smaragdinus ( Westwood, 1842)

Fig. 7A

Scatonomus smaragdinus Westwood, 1842: 59 (original description). Type locality: Brazil. Name-bearing type: kind of typification uncertain from the original description (contra certain “ holotype ” according to Canhedo 2006), unknown whereabouts ( Canhedo 2006).

Onthocharis bella Waterhouse, 1891a: 356 (original description). Type locality: French Guiana. Name-bearing type: holotype (BMNH) ( Canhedo 2006), examined by FZVM.

Scatonomus smaragdinus – Erichson 1843: 189. — Westwood 1843: 62 (description).

Onthocharis smaragdinus – Westwood 1847: 231 (description). — Lacordaire 1855: 94, 95 (comments).

Onhocharis smaragdina – Harold 1869d: 1003 (catalogue). — Gillet 1911b: 51 (catalogue). — Blackwelder 1944: 204 (catalogue).

Onthocharis bella – Gillet 1911b: 51 (catalogue). — Blackwelder 1944: 204 (list). — Vulcano & Pereira 1967: 581 (key for the Amazon).

Anomiopus smaragdinu s – Vaz-de-Mello 2000: 190 (checklist for Brazil). — Canhedo 2004a: 188 (key); 2006: 400 (revision). — Ratcliffe et al. 2015: 196 (checklist for Peru). — Hielkema & Hielkema 2019: 60 (catalogue for the Guianas).

Distribution

Venezuela, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, and Peru.

Subregions of Venezuela

Peneplain of the Caura and Paragua rivers, and Guiana Shield.

Literature records

Canhedo 2004a: 188 ( Venezuela: Bolívar); 2006: 349–400 ( Venezuela: Bolívar).

Figures

Fig. 7. Species distribution. A. Anomiopus smaragdinus (Westwood, 1842). B. Ateuchus aeneomicans (Harold, 1868). Green diamond = CEMT collection data; black circle = literature data.