Uroxys sulai Balthasar, 1940

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 : 248-249

Uroxys sulai Balthasar, 1940 Plate 55C

Uroxys sulai Balthasar, 1940: 33 (original description. Type locality: Ecuador, Prov. Guayaz, Guayaquil).

Uroxys sulai : Vulcano and Pereira 1967: 579 (characters in key); Carvajal et al. 2011: 318-319 (cited for Ecuador); Bezdek and Hajek 2011: 360 (catalog of the types of the NMPC); Krajcik 2012: 262 (complete list of species); Chamorro et al. 2018: 99 (cited for Ecuador).

Type specimens.

Uroxys sulai Balthasar, 1940. The holotype (♂) is deposited at the NMPC (ex coll. V Baltashar). Locality: Guayaquil, examined.

Holotype (♂): "Guayaquil / F. Ohs. S. 18. 6. 05 [p]", "Typus [p, red label, black margin]", "Uroxys / Šulai m. / Typus! N. sp. / Dr. V. Balthasar det. [p and hw]", “Šulai m. [hw, green label]", "Mus. Nat. Pragae / 65714 / Inv [p and hw, red label]", "HOLOTYPE [hw, red label]".

Distribution.

Only known from Ecuador.

Records examined.

GUAYAS: Guayaquil (1 specimen NMPC).

Temporal data.

Collected in June

Remarks.

Inhabits coastal lowland evergreen forests at 50 m a.s.l. The collection method is unknown.