Bdelyrus triangulus Cook, 1998

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 : 20

Bdelyrus triangulus Cook, 1998 Plate 6D

Bdelyrus triangulus Cook, 1998: 660 (original description. Type locality: Ecuador, Napo, Sunka).

Bdelyrus triangulus : Cook 2000: 553 (characters in key); Donoso et al. 2009: Appendix II. 16 (catalog of types MQCAZ); Carvajal et al. 2011: 318-319 (cited for Ecuador); Krajcik 2012: 52 (complete list of species); Chamorro et al. 2018: 91 (cited for Ecuador).

Type specimens.

Bdelyrus triangulus Cook, 1998. The holotype (♀) is deposited at the MQCAZ. Locality: Napo [= Orellana] Sunka, examined.

Holotype (♀): "Ex: Hojarasca / Bosque Alto [hw]", "ECUADOR / NAPO: SUNKA / 29-I-89 / Legit SANDOVAL", "HOLOTYPE / Bdelyrus / triangulus Cook [p, red label]".

Distribution.

Only known from Ecuador.

Records examined.

NAPO [= ORELLANA]: Sunka (1 specimen MQCAZ).

Temporal data.

Collected in January.

Remarks.

Inhabits the lowland evergreen forests of the Amazon region at 300 m a.s.l. According to Donoso et al. (2009) this species was collected in leaf-litter.