Dyscinetus laevipunctatus Bates, 1888

Moore, Matthew R., Cave, Ronald D. & Branham, Marc A., 2018, Annotated catalog and bibliography of the cyclocephaline scarab beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Dynastinae, Cyclocephalini), ZooKeys 745, pp. 101-378 : 232-233

Dyscinetus laevipunctatus Bates, 1888

Dyscinetus laevipunctatus Bates, 1888: 311-312 [original combination].

Dyscinetus (Palechus) laevipunctatus Bates [new subgeneric classification by Casey 1915: 174].

Dyscinetus laevipunctatus Bates [removal of subgeneric classification by Chapin 1932: 295].

syn. Dyscinetus (Palechus) histrio Casey, 1915: 174 [original combination].

Dyscinetus laevipunctatus Bates [synonymy by Chapin 1932: 295].

Types.

Type of D. laevipunctatus at BMNH ( Endrődi 1966). Type of D. histrio at USNM ( Endrődi 1966).

Distribution.

BELIZE: Cayo, Stann Creek, Toledo. BRAZIL. COLOMBIA: Caldas, Meta, Tolima, Valle del Cauca . COSTA RICA: Alajuela, Guanacaste, Heredia, Limón, Puntarenas. EL SALVADOR: Ahuachapán, La Libertad, San Salvador. GUATEMALA: Alta Verapaz, Baja Verapaz, Escuintla, Guatemala, Huehuetenango, Izabal, Jalapa, Petén, San Marcos, Santa Rosa, Suchitepéquez, Zacapa. HONDURAS: Atlántida, Choluteca, Colón, Comayagua, Copán, Cortés, Francisco Morazán, Gracias a Dios, Santa Bárbara, Yoro. MEXICO: Campeche, Chiapas, Coahuila, Colima, Distrito Federal, Guerrero, Jalisco , Michoacán, Nayarit, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, Puebla, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Yucatán. NICARAGUA: Chontales, Granada, León, Managua, Masaya, RAA Sur, Río San Juan. PANAMA: Former Canal Zone.

References.

Bates 1888, Casey 1915, Chapin 1932, Arrow 1937b, Blackwelder 1944, Figueroa-P. 1952, Gibson and Carrillo 1959, Endrődi 1966, 1985a, Ratcliffe 1986, Maes 1987, 1994, Moron et al. 1985, 1988, Thomas 1993, Ratcliffe and Moron 1997, Sanchez Soto 1998, Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2001, Ratcliffe 2002a, 2003, Restrepo-Giraldo et al. 2003, Fernández García 2006, Ratcliffe and Cave 2006, Pacheco F. et al. 2008, Gasca-Álvarez and Amat-García 2010, Krajcik 2005, 2012, Moore 2012, Ratcliffe et al. 2013, Deloya et al. 2014a, 2016, García-Rivera and Contreras-Ramos 2015.

Remarks.

Casey (1915) reported D. histrio (= D. laevipunctatus ) from the nonspecific locality "Amazon Valley". This locality has been interpreted as being either erroneous or possibly Brazilian ( Endrődi 1966, Ratcliffe 2003).