Brazilian Scarabaeoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) in the Taxonomic Catalogue of the Brazilian Fauna, with a key for families and subfamilies

Costa-Silva, Vinícius da; Ferreira, André da Silva; Bordin, Bruna R.; Basílio, Daniel S.; Rodrigues, Diego F.; Gama, Emanuel R.R.; Fuhrmann, Juares; Mariano, Júlia; Bevilaqua, Marcus; Cherman, Mariana A.; Duarte, Paulo R.M.; Grossi, Paschoal C.; Vaz-de-Mello, Fernando Z.

doi:10.1590/S1984-4689.v41.e23075

person Vinícius da Costa-Silva

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schoolDepartment of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria. Private Bag X20, Hatfield, 0028, South Africa.schoolLaboratório de Scarabaeoidologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso. 78060-900 Cuiabá, MT, Brazil.

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person André da Silva Ferreira

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schoolDepartamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade de Pernambuco. Campus Petrolina, 56328-900 Petrolina, PE, Brazil.

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person Bruna R. Bordin

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person Daniel S. Basílio

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schoolLaboratório de Sistemática e Bioecologia de Coleoptera, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná. 81531-980 Curitiba, PR, Brazil.

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person Diego F. Rodrigues

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person Emanuel R.R. Gama

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person Juares Fuhrmann

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schoolMuseu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo. 04218-970 São Paulo, SP, Brazil.

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person Júlia Mariano

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person Marcus Bevilaqua

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person Mariana A. Cherman

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person Paulo R.M. Duarte

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person Paschoal C. Grossi

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schoolLaboratório de Taxonomia de Insetos, Fitossanidade, Departamento de Agronomia, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco. 52171-970 Recife, PE, Brazil.

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person Fernando Z. Vaz-de-Mello

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schoolLaboratório de Scarabaeoidologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso. 78060-900 Cuiabá, MT, Brazil.

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Corresponding author: Vinícius da Costa-Silva (
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Sionei R. Bonatto

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The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

MacLeay (1819 )	Arrow (1910 )	Crowson (1955 )	Paulian (1988 )	Bouchard et al. (2011 )	Cherman and Morón (2014 )
Aesalidae	Lucanidae	Acanthoceridae	Aclopidae	Belohinidae	Belohinidae
Anoplognathidae	Passalidae	Geotrupidae	Aegialiidae	Diphyllostomatidae	Cetoniidae
Aphodiidae	Scarabaeidae	Lucanidae	Allidiostomidae	Geotrupidae	Diphyllostomatidae
Cetoniidae		Passalidae	Aphodiidae	Glaphyridae	Geotrupidae
Dynastidae		Scarabaeidae	Aulonocnemidae	Glaresidae	Glaphyridae
Geotrupidae			Belohinidae	Hybosoridae	Glaresidae
Glaphyridae			Ceratocanthidae	Lucanidae	Hybosoridae
Lamprimidae			Cetoniidae	Ochodaeidae	Lucanidae
Lucanidae			Chironidae	Passalidae	Melolonthidae
Melolonthidae			Diphyllostomatidae	Pleocomidae	Ochodaeidae
Passalidae			Dynastidae	Scarabaeidae	Passalidae
Rutelidae			Euchiridae	Trogidae	Pleocomidae
Scarabaeidae			Geotrupidae		Scarabaeidae
Syndesidae			Glaphyridae		Trogidae
Trogidae			Hybosoridae
			Lichniidae
			Lucanidae
			Melolonthidae
			Ochodaeidae
			Orphnidae
			Pachypodidae
			Passalidae
			Phaenomeridae
			Rutelidae
			Scarabaeidae
			Systellopodidae
			Taurocerastidae
			Trogidae

Family	Subfamily	Tribe	Subtribe	Genera	Subgenera	Species	Subspecies
Cetoniidae	2	5	4	22	0	84	3
Geotrupidae	1	1	0	7	1	76	0
Glaresidae	1	0	0	1	0	1	0
Hybosoridae	4	2	0	19	4	85	3
Lucanidae	2	5	0	14	3	75	0
Melolonthidae	6	23	7	163	14	1,591	137
Ochodaeidae	1	1	0	1	0	3	0
Passalidae	1	2	0	12	2	110	7
Scarabaeidae	2	13	8	104	45	826	59
Trogidae	1	0	0	2	2	15	0
Total	21	51	19	345	71	2,532	203

Category	Brazil (CTFB)	World (COL)
Families	10	15
Subfamilies	21	59
Tribes	51	164
Subtribes	19	105
Genera	345	3,040
Subgenera	71	556
Species	2,532	41,370
Subspecies	203	3,809

Author’s name	Species described
Carl H.C. Burmeister	251
Georg Frey	227
Friedrich Ohaus	216
Julius Moser	199
Edgar von Harold	195
Charles E. Blanchard	173
Fernando Z. Vaz-de-Mello	140
Antônio Martínez	79
Marc Soula	77
Hermann Luederwaldt	65
Vladimir Balthasar	59
Adolf Schmidt	50
François Génier	50
Paschoal C. Grossi	49
Sebö Endrödi	49
Gilbert J. Arrow	48
Antoine G. Olivier	43
Brett C. Ratcliffe	41
François-Louis de Castelnau*¹	41
Ernst F. Germar	40
Joseph A.M. Perty	37
Rudolf Petrovitz	37
Wilhelm F. Erichson	36
Carl G. Mannerheim	32
Fernando A.B. Silva	32
Achille R. Percheron	31
Patrick Arnaud	31
Rafael V. Nunes	31
Renaud M.A. Paulian	31
Henry W. Bates	30
Francisco Silvério Pereira	30
Jean-Baptiste A.L.C. Boucomont	29
Roger-Paul Dechambre	28
Johann C. Fabricius	27
Mariana A. Cherman	25
Carl Felsche	25
John O. Westwood	25
Hippolyte L. Gory	24
Henry F. Howden	24
Charles O. Waterhouse	24
Heinrich Prell	23
Zdzislawa T. Stebnicka	23
Virgínia L. Canhedo	22
Matthias Seidel	19
Johann F.G. von Eschscholtz	19
Thaynara Pacheco	18
Walter Höhne	18
August F. Kuwert	16
Carolus Linnaeus	16
Cláudio R.V. da Fonseca	15
François-Louis de Laporte*¹	15
M. H. Lucas	15
William S. MacLeay	15
Marcely Valois	14
Jean-Guillaume Audinet-Serville	13
Charles F.P.A. Preudhomme de Borre	13
André da S. Ferreira	13
Andrey V. Frolov	12
Hermann J. Kolbe	12
Júlio Louzada	12
G. d’Olsoufieff	12
Freddy Bravo	11
Lilia A. Akhmetova	11
Federico C. Ocampo	11
Johann C.F. Klug	11
Amédée L.M. Le Peletier (= “Saint-Fargeau”)	11
Stéphane Boucher	10
Edrielly Carvalho*²	10
Johan W. van Lansberge	10
Lorenzo Camerano	9
Félix É. Guérin-Méneville	9
William Kirby	9
Oscar L. Cartwright	8
Fabien Dupuis	8
Gonzalo Halffter	8
Lúcia M. Almeida	7
Paulo R.M. Duarte	7
Pedro Reyes-Castillo	7
Roni A.F. Medeiros	7
Ludwig Redtenbacher	7
Lawrence W. Saylor	7
Frederick Bates	6
Mary E. Jameson	6
Louis A.A. Chevrolat	6
Joyce Cook	6
Mario J. Cupello	6
Dru Drury	6
Arthur V. Evans	6
Anton F. Nonfried	6
Andrew B.T. Smith	6
Nikolas A. Vigors	6
Mateus Bento	5
Henri Boileau	5
Johann J. Kaup	5
Maria Aparecida Vulcano*³	5
José R.M. Mermudes	5
Ingrid Mattos	5
Luís G. Nunes	5
Michele Rossini	5
James Thomson	5
Friderico Weber	5
Esteban I. Abadie	4
Gustaf J. Billberg	4
Vinícius da Costa-Silva	4
Johann W. Dalman	4
Pierre A.J. Drapiez	4
Joseph J.E. Gillet	4
Frederic H. Gravely	4
Leonhard Gyllenhal	4
Johann F.W. Herbst	4
Olivier E. Janson	4
Gustav Kraatz	4
Frederick E. Melsheimer	4
Frederic J.S. Parry	4
Patricia Vaurie	4
Karla Villatoro	4
Philippe Antoine	3
Marcus Bevilaqua	3
Carl H. Boheman	3
Olivier Boilly	3
Edrielly Carvalho-de-Santana*²	3
John H. Curtis	3
Robert D. Gordon	3
Everardo J. Grossi	3
Léon M.H. Fairmaire	3
Johannes N.F.X. Gistel	3
Johann K.W. Illiger	3
Mary L. Jameson	3
Th. Kirsch	3
Maria E. Maldaner	3
Santiago Montoya-Molina	3
W. Möllemkamp	3
Basil G. Nevinson	3
Massimo Prandi	3
Paul N. Schürhoff	3
Rafael Sobral	3
Massimiliano Spinola	3
Chrysantus Sternberg	3
Carl P. Thunberg	3
Erich Wasmann	3
Ricardo M. Koike	2
Moacir Alvarenga	2
Eugène Benderitter	2
Hugues E. Bomans	2
Carlos Bruch	2
Thomas L. Casey	2
Luciana Iannuzzi	2
Fabio C. Costa	2
Marco Dellacasa	2
Achille Deyrolle	2
Takaaki Fujii	2
Arturo González-Alvarado	2
Francisco Racca-Filho	2
Mariana D. Santos	2
Bert Kohlmann	2
Violeta Halffter	2
Howard E. Hinton	2
Frederic W. Hope	2
Sérgio Ide	2
Carl G. Jablonsky	2
Hermes E. Escalona	2
Luis J. Joly	2
Rudolf Kriesche	2
Jean-Pierre Lacroix	2
Margarita M. López-García	2
Cuauhtémoc Deloya	2
Shinji Nagai	2
Marcela S.G. Carvalho	2
Dirk Ahrens	2
Marcela Monné	2
Juarez S. Pinto-Junior	2
Riccardo Pittino	2
Yannig Ponchel	2
Louis J. Reiche	2
Mario Zunino	2
Hermann R. Schaum	2
David Sharp	2
Paul Skelley	2
Rafael C.J. Sousa	2
Eduard W. Steinheil	2
Jacob Stürm	2
Ernst L. Taschenberg	2
Virgínia L. Canhedo	2
Marcelli K. Vieira	2
Erich Weinreich	2
Carlos Aguilar-Julio	1
Celso Godinho	1
Daniel S. Basílio	1
Ambroise F.J. Beauvois	1
Bernard Benesh	1
Richard E. Blackwelder	1
Heinrich Blut	1
Patrice Bouchard	1
Nair O. Aguiar	1
Auguste Bourgoin	1
Juan Brèthes	1
Hermann R. Schaum	1
Paulo F. Bührnheim	1
Ernest C.A. Candèze	1
Tamara G. Carvalho	1
Fortuné Chalumeau	1
Julia Colby	1
James D.G. Darling	1
Carl DeGeer	1
Martin Hardy	1
Jean-Pierre Lumaret	1
Giovanni Dellacasa	1
Robert Didier	1
Carl A. Dohrn	1
Maria O.A. Ribeiro	1
Maria F.S. Fernandez	1
Fernando B.P. Gouveia	1
Juares Fuhrmann	1
Paolo Gandini	1
Bruce D. Gill	1
George R. Gray	1
Karl B.M.J. Heller	1
Ernst O.W. Taschenberg	1
Alexander Heyne	1
Walter D. Hincks	1
Jean-Bernard Huchet	1
B.E. Jakowleff	1
André Janssens	1
Edward A. Klages	1
W.D. Kozhantshikov	1
Jan Krikken	1
Jean T. Lacordaire	1
Bengt-Olof Landin	1
Rudolf B. Lange	1
Pierre A. Latreille	1
John L. LeConte	1
Nathanael G. Leske	1
Sven I. Ljungh	1
Felix Lynch-Arribálzaga	1
Johann W. Machatschke	1
Adrian Martínez	1
Maria Aparecida V. d’Andretta*³	1
Leonello Milani	1
Łukasz Minkina	1
Matthew R. Moore	1
Carlos Moreira	1
Miguel A. Morón	1
José R. Salvadori	1
Paul Nagel	1
John C. Neita-Moreno	1
Palisot de Beauvois	1
Giorgina Pangella	1
Samuel B. Pessôa	1
Ronald D. Cave	1
Jefson M. Ribeiro	1
Enrico Ricchiardi	1
John Sahlberg	1
Antonio Santos-Silva	1
Lucas Sawaris	1
Gustav Schoch	1
Jennifer M. Shaughney	1
John W. Shipp	1
Ana B.G. Moura	1
Josival F. Araújo	1
Rita C. de Moura	1
Guy Silvestre	1
Filippo Silvestri	1
José W. de Morais	1
Antoine J.J. Solier	1
Nils S. Swederus	1
Layse Harada	1
Tom Schouteet	1
Jaak Van Meenen	1
Marcio Gavino	1
Johann(es) E. Voet	1
Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim	1