Ataenius nanus (De Geer, 1774)

Scarabaeus nanus De Geer 1774: 318 (Suriname)

Distribution. Suriname: De Geer 1774: 318; A. Schmidt 1910b: 76, 1922b: 457; Blackwelder 1944: 215. Other: Stebnicka 2007b (not mentioned).

Note. Harold (1880: 42) states that this is a true Ataenius . However, since its description by De Geer (1774: 318), nobody has reported seeing Scarabaeus nanus . The only reports we have found in the literature are repetitions of the original description. The whereabouts of the type material are unknown and we consider this a species inquirendum.