Phanaeini comprises about 160 species in 12 genera restricted to the Americas. Since the diversity of this tribe remains little known in several regions of Brazil, this study presents a guide to its 13 species with presence in the biologically rich and largely unexplored state of Roraima: Coprophanaeus (Coprophanaeus) abas (MacLeay, 1819MACLEAY, W.S. 1819. Horae Entomologicae: or Essays on the annulose animals. Bagster S., London.), C. (C.) dardanus (MacLeay, 1819MACLEAY, W.S. 1819. Horae Entomologicae: or Essays on the annulose animals. Bagster S., London.), C. (C.) gameziArnaud, 2002ARNAUD, P. 2002. Phanaeini. In Les Coléoptàres du Monde. Hillside books, Canterbury, v. 28, p.1-151., C. (C.) jasius (Olivier, 1789OLIVIER, G.A. 1789. Entomologie ou histoire naturelle des insects… Baudouin, Paris.), C. (Megaphanaeus) lancifer (Linnaeus, 1767LINNAEUS, C. 1767. Systema naturae… v. II, p.533-1327.), Oxysternon (Oxysternon) conspicillatum conspicillatum Werber, 1801, O. (O.) durantoniArnaud, 1984ARNAUD, P. 1984. Nouveax Phanaeini (Col. Scarabaeidae). Miscellanea Entomologica 50:59-64., O. (O.) ebeninum (Nevinson, 1890NEVINSON, B.G. 1890. Description of a new species of the genus Phanaeus MacLeay. Entomologists Monthly Magazine 26:1-315.), O. (O.) festivum viridanum (Olsoufieff, 1924), O. (O.) silenus chicheryiArnaud, 2001ARNAUD, P. 2001. Description de nouvelles espàces de Phanaeides. Besoiro 6:2-8., Phanaeus (Notiophanaeus) bispinusBates, 1868BATES, H.W. 1868. Notes on genera and species of Copridae. Coleopterologische Hefet. 4:87-91., P. (N.) bordoniArnaud, 1996ARNAUD, P. 1996. Description d’une nouvelle espàce de Phanaeus (Col. Scarabaeidae). Besoiro 3:6-7. (first record from Brazil), and Sulcophanaeus faunus (Fabricius, 1775FABRICIUS, C. 1775. Systema Entomologiae… Officina Libraria Kortii, Flensburgi et Lipsiae.). The species of Dendropaemon were not considered herein because the genus is presently under taxonomic revision.
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