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Issue: Vol. 5590 No. 3: 24 Feb. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-02-24
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5590.3.3
Page range: 345-364
Abstract views: 86
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A review of the genus Heterogomphus Burmeister, 1847 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae: Oryctini) from Colombia

Sección Entomología; Colecciones Biológicas; Centro Colecciones y Gestión de Especies; Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt; Claustro de San Agustín; Villa de Leyva; Boyacá; Colombia
Sección Entomología; Colecciones Biológicas; Centro Colecciones y Gestión de Especies; Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt; Claustro de San Agustín; Villa de Leyva; Boyacá; Colombia
Systematics Research Collections; W-436 Nebraska Hall; University of Nebraska State Museum; Lincoln; Nebraska; 68588-0514; United States of America
Coleoptera scarab beetles taxonomy nomenclature identification key natural history

Abstract

The 10 species of the genus Heterogomphus Burmeister recorded from Colombia are illustrated and diagnosed, and a species checklist and dichotomous keys to distinguish them are presented. Heterogomphus telamon (Burmeister, 1847) is reported for the first time for Colombia, and Heterogomphus onorei Voirin, 1984 is proposed as a new junior synonym of Heterogomphus curvicornis Prell, 1912. Finally, a new species from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (Colombia) is described, Heterogomphus kogui Neita Moreno, Clavijo-Bustos, and Ratcliffe new species.

 

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