Onthophagus (Onthophagus) steinheili Harold, 1880

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 : 192

Onthophagus (Onthophagus) steinheili Harold, 1880 Plate 43D

Onthophagus steinheili Harold, 1880a: 34 (original description. Type locality: Fusagasugá).

Onthophagus steinheili : Gillet 1911a: 208 (catalog of species, cited as Onthophagus Steinheili Har.); Boucomont and Gillet 1927: 208 (catalog of species, cited as Onthophagus Steinheili Har.); Boucomont 1932: 304 (characters in key), 330 (distribution); Blackwelder 1944: 212 (list of species from Latin America); Vulcano and Pereira 1967: 563 (characters in key); Zunino and Halffter 1997: 161 (list of species); Medina et al. 2001: 140 (list of species from Colombia); Pulido-Herrera and Zunino 2007: 116 (catalog of species); Krajcik 2012: 186 (complete list of species); Rossini et al. 2018a: 548 (figures: 3e-h, 2n-r, 5a), 552-553 (characters in key), 572 (redescription), 573 (distribution); Rossini et al. 2018b: 10 (list of species of the osculatii complex).

Onthophagus (Onthophagus) steinheili : Chamorro et al. 2018: 97 (cited for Ecuador).

Types specimens.

Onthophagus steinheili Harold, 1880. The lectotype is deposited at the MNHN (see Rossini et al. 2018a: 573). Locality: Fusagasugá (not examined).

Distribution.

Colombia and Ecuador.

Records examined.

ZAMORA CHINCHIPE: Chito, Río San Francisco, 1800 m (2 specimens CEMT).

Temporal data.

Collected in February.

Remarks.

Inhabits the montane cloud forests of the Andean region at 1800 m a.s.l. Collected with pitfall traps baited with human feces.