Dichotomius (Dichotomius) provisorius (Luederwaldt, 1925)

Chamorro, William, Marin-Armijos, Diego, senjo, Angelico & Vaz-De-Mello, Fernando Z., 2019, Scarabaeinae dung beetles from Ecuador: a catalog, nomenclatural acts, and distribution records, ZooKeys 826, pp. 1-343 : 117-118

Dichotomius (Dichotomius) provisorius (Luederwaldt, 1925) Plate 26D

Pinotus provisorius Luederwaldt, 1925: 67 (original description. Type locality: Ecuador).

Pinotus provisorius : Luederwaldt 1929: 37 (characters in key); Blackwelder 1944: 207 (list of species from Latin America).

Dichotomius provisorius : Carvajal et al. 2011: 320-321 (cited for Ecuador); Krajcik 2012: 92 (complete list of species).

Dichotomius (Dichotomius) provisorius : Chamorro et al. 2018: 94 (cited for Ecuador).

Type specimens.

Pinotus provisorius Luederwaldt, 1925. Two syntypes examined deposited at the MZUSP. Lectotype to be designated in a future work on this species group.

Syntype (♀): "Loja [hw]", "bengder. / F. Ohaus lg. [hw]", "Pinotus ♀ / provisorius Lüd. / Lüeder. det. 25. [hw]", "17246 [p]", "♀ [hw]", "COTIPO [p, black margin, purple label]".

Syntype (♀): "O.ECUADOR / Macas Feyer [p]", "Pinotus ♀ / provisorius Lüd. / Lüeder. det. 24. [hw]", "17247 [p]", "♀ [hw]", "COTIPO [p, black margin, purple label]".

Distribution.

Only known from Ecuador.

Records examined.

LOJA: without specific locality (1 specimen MZUSP). MORONA SANTIAGO: Macas: (1 specimen MZUSP).

Temporal data.

It is not known when this species was collected.

Remarks.

Inhabits the evergreen foothill forests of the Amazon region. The collection method is unknown.