Malagoniella astyanax subsp. astyanax

Malagoniella astyanax astyanax (Olivier, 1789) Fig. 54B Scarabaeus astyanax Olivier, 1789: 188, pl. 27 fig. 233 (original description). Type locality: unknown (not given in the original description). Name-bearing type: unknown typification status and whereabouts. Megathopa astyanax – Gillet 1911b: 26 (catalogue). — Halffter et al. 1960: 202 (redescription). Megathopa astyanax astyanax – Halffter et al. 1960: 202‒203 (redescription). Malagoniella astyanax – Martínez 1961:82 (new combination). — Vulcano & Pereira 1964: 574 (catalogue). — Blanco 1987: 41 (catalogue). — Escobar 1997: 422 (diversity). — Medina et al. 2001: 137 (checklist for Colombia). — Bustos-Gómez & Lopera-Toro 2003: 61 (diet). — Hernández et al. 2003: 96 (diversity). — Larsen et al. 2008: 1294 (list). — Ferrer-Paris et al. 2013: 109 (list for Venezuela) — França et al. 2016: 3 (report). Malagoniella astyanax astyanax – Halffter & Martínez 1966: 122 (diagnosis). Material examined VENEZUELA ‒ Bolívar • 1 spec.; El Manteco; 2 Aug. 2006; curso NM2006 leg.; faeces, 43h, 09:05; CEMT. Distribution Colombia, Venezuela, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, and Peru. Subregions of Venezuela System of hills and low piedmont mountains of the Guiana Shield, System of low mountains and hills Imataca-Cuyuní of Northeast Guyana Shield, Andes mountains, and Central Coast Mountain Range. Literature records Martínez 1961: 82 (Venezuela). — Vulcano & Pereira 1964: 574 (Venezuela). — Blanco 1987:41 (Táchira, Falcón and Aragua). — Larsen et al. 2008: 1294 (Venezuela: Bolívar). — Ferrer-Paris et al. 2013: 109 (Venezuela: Aragua [Guárico]: Altagracia de Orituco, Bolívar: Sabanas de Guri and Zulia Rosario de Perijá). — Franca et al. 2016: 3 (Venezuela).