Dichotomius (Dichotomius) longiceps (Taschenberg, 1870)

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 : 253-254

Dichotomius (Dichotomius) longiceps (Taschenberg, 1870)

Copris longiceps Taschenberg, 1870: 180 (original description. Type locality: Loja).

Remarks.

This species was recorded for Ecuador by the following authors: Gillet (1911a: 61) cited as Pinotus longiceps Taschb; Luederwaldt (1929: 18), distribution; Blackwelder (1944: 207) cited as Pinotus longiceps Tasch; Carvajal et al. (2011: 320- 321), list of species; Krajcik (2012: 91), list of species; Boilly (2015b: 83, figs 1, 2), cited for Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Guyane.

The record of Taschenberg (1870) is possibly incorrect with regards to the type locality. According to our data, there are no other records of this species in the collections listed.