Ateuchus aeneomicans (Harold, 1868)

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 : 10-11

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.826.26488

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scientific name

Ateuchus aeneomicans (Harold, 1868)
status

 

Ateuchus aeneomicans (Harold, 1868) View in CoL Plate 3D

Choeridium aeneomicans Harold, 1868c: 82 (original description. Type locality: Brazil, S Paulo [= São Paulo de Olivença], Amazon).

Choeridium aeneomicans : Harold 1868a: 37 (characters in key), 66 (redescription); Gemminger and Harold 1869: 1006 (list, distribution); Gillet 1911a: 52 (list, distribution); Balthasar 1939a: 63 (characters in key); Blackwelder 1944: 204 (list of species de Latin America).

Ateuchus aenomicans : Vulcano and Pereira 1967: 589 (characters in key); Howden and Young 1981: 68 (characters in key), 69 (redescription); Kohlmann 1997: 178 (characters in key), 179 (redescription); Vaz-de-Mello 2000: 190 (cited for Brazil); Medina et al. 2001: 137 (cited for Colombia); Ratcliffe 2002: 13 (cited for Panama); Solís and Kohlmann 2012: 4 (cited for Costa Rica); Krajcik 2012: 49 (complete list of species); Ratcliffe et al. 2015: 196 (cited for Peru); Chamorro et al. 2018: 91 (cited for Ecuador).

Type specimens.

Choeridium aeneomicans Harold, 1868. Three syntypes examined deposited at the MNHN (ex coll. E Harold, ex coll. R Oberthür and ex coll. HW Bates). Lectotype to be designated in a future work on this species group.

Distribution.

Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Panama.

Records examined.

ORELLANA: Bloque 31 Timara, Parque Nacional Yasuní (1 specimen CEMT). PASTAZA: Villano (1 specimen CEMT).

Temporal data.

Collected in July and December.

Remarks.

Inhabits lowland evergreen forests of the Amazon region. Collected with pitfall traps baited with human feces.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

Genus

Ateuchus