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W. D. Edmonds and J. Zidek A taxonomic review of the neotropical genus Coprophanaeus Olsoufieff, 1924 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae) Insecta Mundi 0129: 1-111 Published in 2010 by Center for Systematic Entomology, Inc. P. O. Box 141874 Gainesville, FL 32614-1874 U. S. A. http://www.centerforsystematicentomology.org/ Insecta Mundi is a journal primarily devoted to insect systematics, but articles can be published on any non-marine arthropod taxon. Manuscripts considered for publication include, but are not limited to, systematic or taxonomic studies, revisions, nomenclatural changes, faunal studies, book reviews, phylogenetic analyses, biological or behavioral studies, etc. Insecta Mundi is widely distributed, and referenced or abstracted by several sources including the Zoological Record, CAB Abstracts, etc. As of 2007, Insecta Mundi is published irregularly throughout the year, not as quarterly issues. As manuscripts are completed they are published and given an individual number. Manuscripts must be peer reviewed prior to submission, after which they are again reviewed by the editorial board to insure quality. One author of each submitted manuscript must be a current member of the Center for Systematic Entomology. Managing editor: Paul E. Skelley, e-mail: insectamundi@gmail.com Production editor: Michael C. Thomas, e-mail: insectamundi@gmail.com Editorial board: J. H. Frank, M. J. Paulsen Subject editors: J. Eger, A. Rasmussen, F. Shockley, G. Steck, A. Van Pelt, J. Zaspel Printed copies deposited in libraries of: CSIRO, Canberra, ACT, Australia Museu de Zoologia, São Paulo, Brazil Agriculture and Agrifood Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada The Natural History Museum, London, Great Britain Muzeum i Instytut Zoologiczny PAN, Warsaw, Poland National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA, USA Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville, FL, USA Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL, USA National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, ON, Canada Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA Nebraska State Museum, Lincoln, NE, USA Instituto de Ecología, A.C., Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Santa Cruz, Bolivia Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”, Buenos Aires, Argentina Museo de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Santo Domingo de Heredia, Costa Rica Instituto Humboldt, Bogotá, D.C., Colombia Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France Electronic copies in PDF format: Printed CD mailed to all members at end of year. Florida Center for Library Automation: http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/insectamundi University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Digital Commons: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/insectamundi/ Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main: http://edocs.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/volltexte/2010/14363/ Author instructions available on the Insecta Mundi page at: http://www.centerforsystematicentomology.org/insectamundi/ Printed Copy ISSN 0749-6737 On-Line ISSN 1942-1354 CD-ROM ISSN 1942-1362
0129: 1-111 2010 A taxonomic review of the neotropical genus Coprophanaeus Olsoufieff, 1924 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae) W. D. Edmonds P.O. Box 426 Marfa, Texas 79843, USA wdedmonds@sbcglobal.net J. Zidek Karafiatova 46 CZ-106 00 Praha 10 Czech Republic jirizidek@volny.cz Abstract. The Neotropical genus Coprophanaeus Olsoufieff (1924), as classified here, comprises 38 species distributed among three subgenera (Megaphanaeus Olsoufieff, Metallophanaeus Olsoufieff, and Coprophanaeus s. str.) and eight species groups. Keys presented help to identify supraspecific and species taxa, all of which are illustrated and diagnosed. Lectotypes are designated for Phanaeus ignecinctus Felsche and Phanaeus ohausi Felsche. Coprophanaeus corythus (Harold), formerly regarded as a subspecies of C. telamon (Erichson), assumes species status. Coprophanaeus magnoi Arnaud, described as a subspecies of C. milon (Blanchard), is raised to species status. New taxonomic interpretations result in 10 new subjective synonymies (junior synonym listed first): Phanaeus machadoi Pereira and d’Andretta = Coprophanaeus saphirinus (Perty); Phanaeus costatus Olsoufieff = Coprophanaeus cyanescens (Olsoufieff); Phanaeus worontzowi Pessôa and Lane = Coprophanaeus cyanescens (Olsoufieff); Coprophanaeus kohlmanni Arnaud = Coprophanaeus morenoi Arnaud; Coprophanaeus pluto nogueirai Arnaud = Coprophanaeus pluto (Harold); Coprophanaeus edmondsi Arnaud = Coprophanaeus conocephalus (Olsoufieff); Coprophanaeus uhleri Malý and Pokorný = Coprophanaeus chiriquensis (Olsoufieff); Coprophanaeus henryi Malý and Pokorný = Coprophanaeus gilli Arnaud; Phanaeus perseus Harold = Coprophanaeus corythus (Harold); Coprophanaeus telamon nevinsoni Arnaud and Gámez = Coprophanaeus corythus; and Coprophanaeus florenti Arnaud = Coprophanaeus ohausi (Felsche). The status of the following names remains unresolved: Phanaeus strandi Balthasar; Coprophanaeus rigoutorum Arnaud; C. terrali Arnaud; C. lichyi Arnaud; C. lecromi Arnaud; C. larseni Arnaud; and C. vazdemeloi Arnaud. Introduction The purpose of this paper is to review the taxonomy of the New World dung beetle genus Coprophanaeus Olsoufieff (1924), as defined by Edmonds (1972). This genus comprises at least 38 species distributed among three subgenera. Coprophanaeus is a member of the phanaeine assemblage as defined by Edmonds (1972), Arnaud (2002c), and Philips et al. (2004), and now generally referred to as the tribe Phanaeini. MacLeay (1819), in the original description of Phanaeus, subdivided his genus into several groups. His “Typus 1” was the first iteration of the group that was to become the genus Coprophanaeus, which he characterized as follows: “Typus 1. Clypeus antice bidentatus. Thorax margine postico vix acuminato, punctis duobus impressis. Pectus haud longius quam latius, canaliculatum, antice carinatum. Tibiae extus quadridentatae dentibus subacutis.” In Typus 1 he included the following species of Phanaeus: P. bellicosus (Olivier), P. jasius (Olivier), P. dardanus MacLeay, P. abas MacLeay, and P. acrisius MacLeay. MacLeay’s scheme was later adopted by Latreille (1825). In his landmark study of the phanaeine dung beetles, Olsoufieff (1924) divided the genus Phanaeus into five subgenera. The first work to employ Olsoufieff’s classification on a comprehensive scale was Blackwelder (1944), who raised all of Olsoufieff’s subgenera to generic rank. Later, Edmonds (1972) combined three of Olsoufieff’s taxa, Coprophanaeus, Metallophanaeus and Megaphanaeus, into the single genus Coprophanaeus. Olsoufieff himself suggested the close relationship among these three groups in his key to the subgenera of Phanaeus, wherein they satisfy alternative 1, “Clypeus avec trois incisions, formant deux lobes aigus dirigés en avant …” Indeed, the very striking clypeal dentition is but one of several features cited by Edmonds as key characters defining the genus (see the generic diagnosis below). 1
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