A taxonomic revision of Bolbapium Boucomont, 1910 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Geotrupidae)

ABSTRACT

The genus Bolbapium Boucomont 1910 comprises 22 species distributed throughout the Neotropical region. Here we present a taxonomic revision of Bolbapium with redescription of the following species: B. baeri (Boucomont, 1902), B. borgmeieri Martínez, 1976, B. caesum (Klug, 1843), B. howdeni Martínez, 1976, B. lucidulum (Klug, 1843), B. minutum (Luederwaldt, 1931), B. modestum (Castelnau, 1840), B. paralucidulum Ide and Martínez, 1993, B. parcepunctatum (Arrow, 1913), B. quadrispinosum (Luederwaldt, 1931), B. quinquestriatum (Boucomont, 1932), B. striatopunctatum (Castelnau, 1840), and B. sulcifrons Ide and Martínez, 1993. We also transferred Bolboceras modestum to Bolbapium and removed the name Bolbapium sculpturatum (Mannerheim 1829) from the genus; and we present nine new species: B. boillyi Carvalho and Vaz-de-Mello sp. nov., B. dutraorum Carvalho and Vaz-de-Mello sp. nov., B. furtadoi Carvalho and Vaz-de-Mello sp. nov., B. limeirai Carvalho and Vaz-de-Mello sp. nov., B. luederwaldti Carvalho and Vaz-de-Mello sp. nov., B. matheusi Carvalho and Vaz-de-Mello sp. nov., B. sampaioorum Carvalho and Vaz-de-Mello sp. nov., B. santanaorum Carvalho and Vaz-de-Mello sp. nov. and B. sergioidei Carvalho and Vaz-de-Mello sp. nov. Illustrations, distribution maps and designation of type material are given. A new synonymy is here confirmed and proposed: Bolbapium minutum Luederwaldt, 1931 = Bolbapium bigibbosum syn. nov. Luederwaldt, 1931.

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KEYWORDS:

• Bolboceratinae
• Bolboceratini
• Neotropical region
• new species

Acknowledgements

We are very thankful to Max Barclay (BMNH) for bringing the Bolbapium parcepunctatum type series to Cuiabá during his trip to visit the Entomological Collection. We are thankful to everyone who provided photos of type specimens: Gabriel Biffi and Sônia Casari from MZSP, Antoine Mantilleri and Olivier Montreuil from MNHN, Pablo Mulieri, Santiago Montoya, Arturo Roig Alsina, Luis Compagnucci and Gastón Zubarán from MACN. We are thankful to Lúcia Almeida and Nora Giambarresi for receiving the first author on DZUP. We also thank Olivier Boilly, for having identified the material belonging to his private collection in Lille, France, and forwarding the information. We also thank Michele Rossini for providing photos (LUOMUS). We thank Vinicius Costa-Silva for all the help and support during the preparation of this work, and Maria Eduarda Maldaner for carrying out a preliminary revision of the English. We thank Johannes Frisch and Joachim Willers (Berlim); Miguel and Marcela Monné (MNRJ) and Andrey Frolov (ZIN) for permission to analyse material, including material that was borrowed elsewhere. We also thank Patrick Arnaud and Eurides Furtado for providing some specimens that were essential to this project, and Luis Carlos Pardo-Locarno and Jorge Noriega for help regarding Colombian specimens.

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Funding

This work was supported by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) under grants 88882.459308/2019-01; CNPq 306745/2016-0; CNPq 405697/2013-9; CNPq 400681/214-5; FAPEMAT/CNPq PRONEM 568005/2014; FAPEMAT 0147956/2017; Berlim: Synthesis ISYEB, UMR 7205 CNRS/MNHN; NHM-Londres: Synthesis GB-TAF-3855; INCT-INAU/CNPq; PPBIO and CNPq 248299/2012-3; CNPq 431760/2018-7; INCT-CENBAM/CNPq; RedeComCerrado/MMA/CNPq.