Onthophagus (Onthophagus) incensus Say, 1835

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 : 255-256

Onthophagus (Onthophagus) incensus Say, 1835

Onthophagus incensus Say, 1835: 173 (original description. Type locality: Mexico).

Remarks.

This species was recorded for Ecuador by the following authors: Boucomont (1932: 308, 324), distribution, described as O. curvicornis var. incensus Say; Vulcano and Pereira (1967: 565), characters in key, cited as O. c. incensus Say, 1837; Howden and Young (1981: 98) characters in key, cited as Onthophagus incensus Say; Kohlmann and Solís (2001: 210) cited as Onthophagus incensus Say; Pulido-Herrera and Zunino (2007: 106) cited as Onthophagus curvicornis Latreille var. incensus ; Carvajal et al. (2011: 322-323), list of species; Chamorro et al. (2018: 97) quoting Pulido-Herrera and Zunino (2007).

It is possible that Boucomont (1932) described a completely different species given that O. incensus Say, 1835 (currently within the hircus group and curvicornis complex) is only found in Central America ( Howden and Cartwright 1963, Rossini et al 2018b). According to our data, there are no other records of this species in the collections listed.