Sulcophanaeus noctis (Bates, 1887)

Phanaeus noctis Bates, 1887: 56 (original description. Type locality: Panama, Bugaba Volcan de Chiriqui. South America, Colombia).

Remarks.

This species was recorded for Ecuador by the following authors: Gillet (1911a: 85) cited as Phanaeus noctis Bates; Blackwelder (1944: 210) cited as Phanaeus noctis Bates; Vulcano and Pereira (1967: 575) listed characters in key, cited as Phanaeus noctis Bates, 1887; Edmonds (2000: 27), distribution; Carvajal et al. (2011: 320-321), list of species.

Arnaud (2002: 139) mentioned that S. noctis (Bates, 1887) was recorded in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Panama. According to our data, there are no other records of this species in the collections listed.