Correction of the type species of the South American genus Gromphas Brullé, 1837 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae: Phanaeini).

Recently, we (Cupello & Vaz-de-Mello, 2013) presented a taxonomic revision of the dung beetle genus Gromphas Brulle, 1837 in which we recognized the validity of five species: Gromphas aeruginosa (Perty, 1830), G. amazonica Bates, 1870, G. dichroa Blanchard, 1846, G. inermis Harold, 1869, and G. lemoinei Waterhouse, 1891. In that work, we also confirmed that Gromphas was described by Brulle (1837) without any included species and that the widely cited name “ Gromphas lacordairei Brulle” was never formally described or cited by Brulle and, in fact, all citations to this name refer to G. lacordairii Burmeister, 1874, a junior synonym of G. inermis Harold, 1869. Thus, the question of the identity of the type species of Gromphas remained open.