An illustrated catalogue of South American species of Omorgus Erichson, 1847 (Coleoptera, Trogidae, Omorginae) including a neotype designation and taxonomical changes

By

Da Costa-Silva, Vinícius
Strümpher, Werner P.
Barclay, Maxwell V. L.
Vaz-De-Mello, Fernando Z

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2024-7-29

Original Publication

Beiträge zur Entomologie

Volume

74

Series / Issue

Issue: 1

Pages

81--101

Subjects

Keratin feeding , Omorgini , Scarabaeoidea , South America , taxonomy , Type specimens

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Berlin Akademie-Verlag 1951-1997

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/contrib.entomol.74.e126799

 

Abstract

An illustrated catalogue of South American species of the genus Omorgus Erichson is presented. Based on this study we propose the following taxonomic changes: Omorgus (Omorgus) capillaceus Scholtz, 1990, syn. nov. and Omorgus (O.) lucidus Pittino, 2010, syn. nov. are proposed as junior subjective synonyms of Omorgus (O.) fuliginosus (Robinson, 1941) and Omorgus (O.) ciliatus (Blanchard, 1847), respectively. Lastly, we designated a male neotype for the ubiquitous New World species Trox suberosus Fabricius, 1775 to replace the missing type.