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A Taxonomic Revision of the Dichotomius reclinatus (Felsche, 1901) Species Group (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae)

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The taxonomic revision of the Dichotomius reclinatus species group (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae: Dichotomius Hope, 1838) sensu Arias-Buriticá and Vaz-de-Mello (2019) is presented. The group comprises four species previously included in the Dichotomius buqueti species group: Dichotomius horridus (Felsche, 1911) from Brazil, French Guiana, and Suriname; Dichotomius nimuendaju (Luederwaldt, 1925) from Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru; Dichotomius quadrinodosus (Felsche, 1901) from Brazil; and Dichotomius reclinatus (Felsche, 1901) from Colombia and Ecuador. A definition of the D. reclinatus species group and an identification key are presented. In the key we included to Dichotomius camposeabrai Martínez, 1974, this species due the external morphology can be confused with the D. reclinatus species group and for the first time photographs of males and female of this species are presented. For each species of the D. reclinatus species group, the following information is provided: taxonomic history, citation of the species in published literature, redescription, list of material examined, photographs of the external morphology, illustrations of male genital organs and the endophallites, and distribution map.

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Acknowledgements

Thanks to all curators of entomological collections cited in the “Material and methods” section for their support and collaboration; to Laboratory of Scarabaeoidology (Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso) for the support (Subproject EECBio UFMT/Finep No 01.12.0359.00); and to the evaluators for their comments. JAAB is supported by CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico) (166085/2020-0). FZVM is supported by CNPq (302997/2013-0, 306745/2016-0, 405697/2013-9, 454152/2011-6, 484035/2013-4, 431760/2018-7), PPBio e CNPq (248299/2012-3), FAPEMAT/CNPq PRONEM (568005/2014,0147956/2017), INCT-CENBAM/CNPq. Part of this work was granted by INCT-CENBAM/CNPq and L’Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Centre National de la recherche scientifique, France, UMR 7205 CNRS/MNHN). In Dresden, thanks to Juares Fuhrmann and Ester Oliveira for your help taking the photos. This paper is part of JA Arias-Buritica’s PhD thesis.

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This word was supported by CNPq (166085/2020–0, 302997/2013–0, 306745/2016–0, 405697/2013–9, 454152/2011–6, 484035/2013–4, 431760/2018–7), FAPEMAT/CNPq PRONEM (568005/2014, 0147956/2017), and INCT-CENBAM/CNPq. Part of this work was supported by INCT-CENBAM/CNPq and ISYEB [UMR 7205 CNRS/MNHN].

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Conceptualization: Jorge Armando Arias Buriticá and Fernando Vaz-de-Mello. Investigation, methodology, visualization, writing original-draft preparation, review and editing: Jorge Armando Arias-Buriticá; Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision and Validation: Fernando Z. Vaz-de-Mello.

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Arias-Buriticá, J.A., Vaz-de-Mello, F.Z. A Taxonomic Revision of the Dichotomius reclinatus (Felsche, 1901) Species Group (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae). Neotrop Entomol 52, 463–484 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-023-01027-3

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