Strategus validus (Fabricius, 1775) Scarabaeus validus Fabricius 1775: 6 (Brazil) Distribution. French Guiana: Duranton 2011: 22 (?); Ponchel 2011: 61; Brûlé et al. 2014: 182; Dupuis 2016b: 110. Brazil: Fabricius 1775: 6 (as Scarabaeus validus); Arrow 1937b: 77; Blackwelder 1944: 257; Endrödi 1976: 141 (as S. validus argentinus; as S. validus validus), 1985a: 605, 614; Ratcliffe 1976: 155; Lachaume 1992: 46; Gasca-Álvarez et al. 2008: 52; Gasca-Álvarez and Fonseca 2009: 721; Duranton 2011: 22; Gasca-Álvarez and Ratcliffe 2011: 35. Other: Blackwelder 1944: 257 (Argentina); Endrödi 1976: 141 (Argentina - as S. validus argentinus; Paraguay - as S. validus validus), 1985a: 605, 614 (Argentina - as S. validus argentinus; Paraguay - as S. validus validus); Ratcliffe 1976: 155 (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay); Lachaume 1992: 46 (Paraguay); Gasca-Álvarez et al. 2008: 52 (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay); Gasca-Álvarez and Ratcliffe 2011: 35 (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay). Note. Strategus argentinus, considered a subspecies of S. validus in Endrödi (1976: 141, 1985a: 605, 614), is according to Ratcliffe (1976: 118) a separate species: S. argentinus Kolbe, 1906 (p. 24).

Published as part of Hielkema, Auke J. & Hielkema, Meindert A., 2019, An annotated checklist of the Scarabaeoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Guianas, pp. 1-306 in Insecta Mundi 732 (732) on page 205, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3678492