Foram efetuadas coletas mensais de julho/1990 a junho/1991, durante a lua nova, na Fazenda Aruanã, uma área de terra-firme às margens da rodovia Torquato Tapajós, AM-010, Km 215, Município de Itacoatiara, Estado do Amazonas, Brasil. Utilizou-se para as coletas luz mista de mercúrio de 250 W, sobre um lençol branco. Foram coletados 251 indivíduos de 9 gêneros e 18 espécies de dinastíneos e dentre estes houve predominância de Cyclocephala Latreille (3 espécies abundantes) e Ligyrus Burmeister (única espécie abundante).

-Dung beetle communities have been compared across north temperate latitudes. Tropical dung beetle communities appear to be more diverse based on studies using different methodologies. Here, we present results from a standardized sampling protocol used to compare dung beetle communities across five neotropical forests in Brazil and Ecuador and two warm, north temperate forests in Mississippi and Louisiana. Species richness in the tropical forests was three to seven times higher than the temperate forests, as would be expected by studies of other taxa across tropical and temperate latitudes. Average body size in the temperate forests was larger than the tropical forests, as predicted by Bergmann's rule. Dung beetle abundance and volume per trap-day were generally higher in Ecuador than Brazil, and higher in Mississippi than Louisiana, but there were no tropical-temperate differences. Species rank-abundance curves were similar within countries and between countries. Rank-volume distributions indicated a smaller range of beetle body sizes in Ecuador versus Brazil or the USA. Community similarity was high within countries and low between countries. Community differences between Brazil and Ecuador sites may be explained by differences in productivity based on geological age of the soils.

A Coleção de Invertebrados do Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA) possui 554 espécimes de Oryctini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae), pertencentes a 7 gêneros, 16 espécies e 2 subespécies. As distribuições geográficas das espécies são fornecidas, sendo que 97% do material examinado procedem de coletas feitas em diferentes locais da Amazônia brasileira. ABSTRACTThe Invertebrate Collection of the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, has 554 specimens of Oryctini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae), belonging to seven genera, 16 species and two subspecies. Information about geographical distribution are provided, of which 97% of the material examined was collected from several places in the Brazilian Amazon.