First record of Coprophanaeus bellicosus (Olivier) (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) in a "Brejo de Altitude" forest in northeastern Brazil: a historical biogeographical approach

Low genetic diversity and high differentiation among relict populations of the neotropical gymnosperm Podocarpus sellowii (Klotz.) in the Atlantic Forest

“…The strong similarity between the IT and BC populations suggests a recent loss of connectivity, or low levels of gene flow, allowing relictual cohesion among individuals. Interestingly, Silva (2011) encountered Coprophanaeus bellicosus (Coleoptera) at Brejo dos Cavalos, a species previously recorded only for the Atlantic Forest south of the São Francisco River. According to this author, this represents a relictual population with a previously more widespread distribution, providing further evidence of connections between the Brejos located in central/southernmost part of their distribution range and the Atlantic rainforest.…”

New records of relictual populations of dung beetle species (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) in the Atlantic Forest of the Brazilian Northeast

“…From the species recorded in this study, Deltochilum bra siliense, Eurysternus calligrammus, E. parallelus, Oxy sternon silenus, and Phanaeus splendidulus possibly presented broader distribution in northeastern Brazil when the Atlantic Forest was continuous along its latitudinal extension, and/or when it was connected in the past with the eastern portions of the Amazon Rainforest. Currently, these species have relictual populations along the northeastern region, as verified to Coprophanaeus belli cosus (Olivier, 1789) recorded from altitudinal Atlantic Forest in Pernambuco (Silva 2011).…”

“…Until the year 2000, 137 species had been recorded for this region (Vaz-de-Mello 2000). Since then, 26 studies have been published reporting data on this group from the region (Hernández 2003(Hernández , 2005(Hernández , 2007Lopes et al 2003Lopes et al , 2006Endres et al 2007;Silva et al 2007Silva et al , 2010Costa et al 2009Costa et al , 2013Costa et al , 2014Gillett et al 2010;Silva 2011;Filgueiras et al 2011aFilgueiras et al , 2011bLiberal et al 2011;Vieira and Silva 2012;Lima et al 2013;Mayer and Vasconcelos 2013;Medina and Lopes 2014;Filgueiras 2015; Pergentino 2015; Salomão and Iannuzzi 2015;Vieira et al 2017;Leite et al 2018;Salomão et al 2019). However, the lack of modern taxonomic studies for some genera and species groups holds back the understanding about dung beetle diversity in this region.…”

Areas of endemism in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest based on the distribution of dung beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae)

“…Historical processes and the generalized areas of endemism in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. The relictual nature of the distributions of some taxa of dung beetles has been described and eventually related to climatic variations of the Pleistocene, such as for Coprophanaeus bellicosus (Olivier, 1789) (Silva, 2011), Phanaeus Macleay (splendidulus group, which includes the species P. dejeani Harold, 1868, endemic to CA8) (Edmonds, 1994); or two species of Bdelyrus Harold present in the BAF and included in our analyses (B. braziliensis Cook, 1998 andB. bromeliatilis Cook, 1998, the latter considered endemic to CA7 e CA10).…”