Mario Cupello

Mario Cupello, Brazilian entomologist

• Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, 20940–040 Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Taxon names authored

• 6 taxon names authored by Mario Cupello

Publications

2015

• Monné, M.A. & Cupello, M. 2015: On the validity of some species names of South American longhorn beetles (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae). Zootaxa 3981(3): 360–366. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3981.3.2. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 

2016

• Cupello, M., Rossini, M. & Vaz-De-Mello, F.Z. 2016. On the type species of the South American dung beetle genus Chalcocopris Burmeister, 1846 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae), with some comments on the type locality of C. hesperus (Olivier, 1789). Zootaxa 4061(3): 274–276. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4061.3.5. Reference page. 

2017

• Maldener, M.E., Cupello, M., Ferreira, D.C. & Vaz-De-Mello, F.Z. 2017. Type specimens and names assigned to Coprophanaeus (Megaphanaeus) d’Olsoufieff, 1924, the largest New World dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Phanaeini). Zootaxa 4272(1): 83–102. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4272.1.4. Reference page. 

2018

• Cupello, M. 2018. On the types species of the New World dung beetle genus Canthidium Erichson, 1847 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae), with an annotated checklist of species. Zootaxa 4388(4): 451–486. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4388.4.1 Reference page. 
• Cupello, M. & Vaz-De-Mello, F.Z. 2018. A monographic revision of the Neotropical dung beetle genus Sylvicanthon Halffter & Martínez, 1977 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae: Deltochilini), including a reappraisal of the taxonomic history of ‘Canthon sensu lato’. European Journal of Taxonomy 467: 1–205. full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Vaz-de-Mello, F.Z. & Cupello, M. 2018. The type specimens of South American dung beetles. Part I: On the species described in the genus Canthon Hoffmannsegg, 1817 by the German entomologist Adolf Schmidt (1856-1923). (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae). Spixiana 41(1): 33-76 Zobodat full article (PDF). Reference page.