Check List 10(2): 260-268, doi: 10.15560/10.2.260
Passalidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) from Ilha Grande (Angra dos Reis, RJ) with new diagnosis and distributional records in Brazil
Ingrid Mattos‡, José Ricardo M. Mermudes§‡ Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil§ Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Corresponding author: Ingrid Mattos ( ingridmattos@gmail.com ) © 2017 Ingrid Mattos, José Mermudes. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Mattos I, Mermudes J (2014) Passalidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) from Ilha Grande (Angra dos Reis, RJ) with new diagnosis and distributional records in Brazil. Check List 10(2): 260-268. https://doi.org/10.15560/10.2.260 |  |
Abstract
A survey of the Passalidae species recorded to the Ilha Grande (Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is presented, with illustrations for each species and a key with diagnosis for genera. Passalus (P.) denticollis Kaup, 1869 and Veturius (V.) transversus Dalman, 1817 was the relative abundance most dominate, representing almost 50% of relative abundance of species in each genus respectively. The study included material collected between January and December of 2008 and it results in 13 species included in four genera and two tribes (Passalini and Proculini). Passalini comprised ten species (Passalus, Spasalus and Paxillus), representing 71.42% of all species. Proculini with three species belong only Veturius, representing 28.57%. Among the 13 species, 12 are registered by first time from Ilha Grande. Veturius (Veturius) sinuatus was the unique species with distribution confirmed and Spasalus cristinae known only São Paulo had the distribution extended to Rio de Janeiro.
Keywords
Coleoptera; Scarabaeoidea; Passalidae; inventory; Brazil; Ilha Grande