Eurysternus squamosus Genier , 2009

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 : 148

publication ID

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

publication LSID

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scientific name

Eurysternus squamosus Genier , 2009
status

 

Eurysternus squamosus Genier, 2009 View in CoL Plate 31D

Eurysternus squamosus Génier, 2009: 67 (original description. Type locality: Peru, Loreto. Campamento San Jacinto 175-215 m).

Eurysternus squamosus : Camero 2010: 149 (characters in key), 150 (diagnosis); Krajcik 2012: 107 (complete list of species); Ratcliffe et al. 2015: 195 (cited for Peru); Chamorro et al. 2018: 95 (cited for Ecuador).

Type specimens.

Eurysternus squamosus Génier, 2009. The holotype (♂) is deposited at the CMNC (see Génier 2009: 68). Locality: Peru, Loreto. Campamento San Jacinto 175-215 m, not examined.

Distribution.

Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

Literature records.

SUCUMBÍOS: Río Napo-río Aguarico ( Génier 2009: 69).

Temporal data.

Collected in September-October.

Remarks.

Inhabits the lowland evergreen forests of the Amazon region at 200 m a.s.l. The collection method for this species is unknown. However, Génier (2009) indicated that this species was collected with flight interception traps and pitfall traps baited with human feces.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

SubFamily

Scarabaeinae

Genus

Eurysternus