Check List 12(3): e19495, doi: 10.15560/12.3.1893
First survey of the Passalidae (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea) species from Reserva Ecológica de Guapiaçu (REGUA), Cachoeiras de Macacu, RJ, Brazil
Ingrid Mattos‡,
Jose Ricardo M. Mermudes‡‡ Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Corresponding author:
Jose Ricardo Mermudes
(
jrmermudes@gmail.com
)
© 2017 Ingrid Mattos, Jose Ricardo 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:
Mermudes J, Mattos I (2016) First survey of the Passalidae (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea) species from Reserva Ecológica de Guapiaçu (REGUA), Cachoeiras de Macacu, RJ, Brazil. Check List 12(3): 1893. https://doi.org/10.15560/12.3.1893 |  |
Abstract
We present the details of a survey with species of passalid conducted in the Reserva Ecológica de Guapiaçu (Cachoeiras de Macacu, Rio de Janeiro State) together with illustrations for each species and an identification key. The study includes material collected between May 2010 and October 2013. We identified 11 species in three genera and two tribes (Passalini and Proculini). Passalini comprised two genera, Passalus with six species, and Spasalus with one species, representing 71.42% of all the species encountered. Proculini was represented by only one genus Veturius, with four species, representing 28.57% of the species surveyed. Nine species were recorded for the first time from Cachoeiras de Macacu municipality.
Keywords
Atlantic Forest; bess beetles; distribution; diversity