Ontherus (Caelontherus) laminifer Balthasar, 1938 Plate 36D

Ontherus laminifer Balthasar, 1938: 221 (original description. Type locality: Brazil, Manaos).

Ontherus laminifer: Blackwelder 1944: 206 (list of species for Latin America); Vulcano and Pereira 1967: 583 (characters in key); Krajcik 2012: 174 (complete list of species); Ratcliffe et al. 2015: 197 (cited for Peru).

Ontherus (Caelontherus) laminifer: Génier 1996: 27 (cited as new combination, redescription); Vaz-de-Mello 2000: 194 (cited for Brazil); Chamorro et al. 2018: 96 (cited for Ecuador).

Type specimens.

Ontherus laminifer Balthasar, 1938. The holotype (♂) is deposited at the NMPC (see Génier 1996: 28). Locality: Amazonas, Manaos, not examained.

Distribution.

Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru.

Records examined.

ORELLANA: Estación Río Huiririma, 220 m (1 specimen MQCAZ).

Temporal data.

Collected in September.

Remarks.

Inhabits the lowland evergreen forests and evergreen foothill forests of the Amazon at 220 m a.s.l. The collection method is unknown.