AMERICAN ORYCTINI: STRATEGUS VERRILLI RATCLIFFE REDISCOVERED AND DESCRIBED, AND NEW RECORDS AND COMMENTS FOR OTHER STRATEGUS AND HISPANIORYCTES (COLEOPTERA: SCARABAEIDAE: DYNASTINAE)

Authors

Brett C. Ratcliffe, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

February 1982

Comments

Published in The Coleopterists Bulletin, 36(2):352-357. 1982. Copyright © 1982 by Brett C. Ratcliffe. Used by permission.

Abstract

Strategus verrilli Ratcliffe was rediscovered on Dominica and is here redescribed, and a neotype is designated. A second specimen of Strategus craigi Ratcliffe (from the Huachuca mountains in Arizona) is reported and provides a new country record for this species. A female of S. ajax (Olivier) is reported from the Bahamas. Strategus monguilloni Voirin is reaffirmed as a synonym of S. mandibularis Sternberg, and the correct identification of the female allotype of S. gracilis Endrodi is questioned. Hispanioryctes wittmeri Howden and EndrCidi is reported from Haiti.