Scotocryptus melitophilus, (Reitter, 1881: 88)

Peck, Stewart B., Gnaspini, Pedro & Newton, Alfred F., 2020, Updated catalog and generic keys of the Leiodidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Neotropical region (“ Latin America ”: Mexico, the West Indies, and Central and South America), Zootaxa 4741 (1), pp. 1-114 : 89

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scientific name	Scotocryptus melitophilus
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S. melitophilus ( Reitter, 1881: 88) View in CoL

(in footnote) ( Apharia ), 1884: 92 comb. (in key; not stated as taxonomic change); Wasmann, 1904: 485; Portevin, 1907: 81; Hatch in Salt, 1929: 451; Salt, 1929: 452; Peck, 2003a: 73 (redescription). No information about types in original description [based on the description, the author had specimens of both sexes];

? Syntypes in MNHN.

Type locality: Cayenne, [ French Guiana] [from Brazil, in error, in Portevin, 1907: 81].

Distribution: Brazil: Pará, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo States; Colombia: Amazonas and Magdalena Departments; Costa Rica: Cartago Province; Ecuador: Pichincha Province; French Guiana; Guyana ( British Guiana) [Kamakusa—Note: An old collecting site, on the Mazaruni river, about 40 km E of the Merume mountains (SBP, personal data)]; Panama: Colón, Darién, and Panamá Provinces. Biology: Wasmann, 1904: 482 – 483; Bezerra et al., 2000 (adaptive behavior with host); Peck, 2003a: 73.

References

Bezerra, J. M. D., Peruqueti, R. C. & Kerr, W. E. (2000) Adaptive behavior of Scotocryptus melitophilus Reitter (Coleoptera, Leiodidae) to live with its host Melipona quadrifasciata Lepeltier (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Revista Brasileira de Zoologia, 17, 199 - 203. https: // doi. org / 10.1590 / S 0101 - 81752000000100016

Peck, S. B. (2003 a) The eyeless inquiline genera Parabystus and Scotocryptus of Costa Rica and Panama: inhabitants of nests of stingless bees (Coleoptera: Leiodidae). Sociobiology, 42, 65 - 80.

Portevin, G. (1907) Clavicornes nouveaux du groupe des necrophages. Iie Memoire. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, 76, 67 - 82.

Reitter, E. (1881) Bestimmungs-Tabellen der europaischen Coleopteren. IV. Enhaltend die Familien: Cistellidae, Georyssidae und Thorictidae. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Koniglichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 31, 67 - 96, pl. 2.

Salt, G. (1929) A contribution to the ethology of the Meliponinae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 77, 431 - 470, pls. XX-XXIX. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2311.1929. tb 00693. x

Wasmann, E. (1904) Contribuicao para o estudo dos hospedes de abelhas brazileiras. Revista do Museu Paulista, 6, 482 - 487.