Synopsis on Passalidae family (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) of Brazil with description of a new species of Veturius Kaup, 1871

Abstract

Even though a huge area of the country remains untouched, two tribes, eight genera and ninetyeight species of Passalidae are found in Brazil until now. Specialists described many taxa and gave both immature and adult taxonomic characteristics, showing bionomic aspects, which are shown in this paper. A checklist of Brazilian species is presented in this study with geographic distribution data. Veturius criniferous sp. nov. from Rond nia, Brazil is described and illustrated.

The Passalidae (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea) from Bolivia, with the descriptions of three new species

“…Described from Brazil, Luederwaldt (1931b) recorded it from “Campinas (Goyaz)”. Fonseca and Reyes-Castillo (2004: 17) recorded it from the states of Amazonas, Pará, Goiás and Sao Paulo. Outside of Brazil, it has been recorded from Argentina by Bruch (1942) and Jiménez-Ferbans et al (2013).…”

“…Comments. This species is distributed in Bolivia, Brazil, Guiana, Suriname (Hincks and Dibb 1935, 1958; Fonseca and Reyes-Castillo 2004). Hincks (1940) recorded material from Bolivia as “Bolivia: Isiamas Dec. (W. M. Mann, Mulford Biol.…”

Two new species of Passalus Fabricius (Coleoptera: Passalidae) from the western Brazilian Amazon with comments on the taxonomic limits of the subgenera

“…According to Fonseca & Reyes-Castillo (2004), 26 species of Passalus occur in the Brazilian Amazon. Recently, Bevilaqua & Fonseca (2019) published a knowledge synthesis of the Passalidae for the west-most region of the Brazilian Amazon, and established five new records for Passalus species, increasing the total number to 31.…”

First survey of the Passalidae (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea) species from Reserva Ecológica de Guapiaçu (REGUA), Cachoeiras de Macacu, RJ, Brazil

“…The family Passalidae is included in the superfamily Scarabaeoidea and contains about 1,000 species in two tribes (Passalini and Proculini), of which at least 50% have been identified in America (Fonseca and Reyes-Castillo 2004;Boucher 2006;Mattos and Mermudes 2014). Passalidae is a morphologically homogeneous group.…”

“…Species of this family live in decaying trunks and members of the colony show subsocial behavior, with complex acoustic communication between adults and larvae (Schuster 1983;Mattos and Mermudes 2014). Furthermore, these species play an important role as primary decomposers in tropical forests and can act as possible conservation bioindicators in priority areas (Schuster 1984;Schuster et al 2000;Fonseca and Reyes-Castillo 2004). However, only few studies on the systematics of this family have been conducted in the Atlantic Forest biome, which could be because of the small number of researchers in Brazil (Santos-Silva 2000; Mattos and Mermudes 2013; Mattos and Mermudes 2014).…”