Canthidium (Neocanthidium) escalerai Balthasar, 1939

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 : 33-34

Canthidium (Neocanthidium) escalerai Balthasar, 1939 Plate 10C

Canthidium escalerai Balthasar, 1939c: 121 (original description. Type locality: Ecuador).

Canthidium escalerai : Vulcano and Pereira 1967: 592 (characters in key); Medina et al. 2001: 137 (cited for Colombia); Krajcik 2012: 62 (complete list of species); Ratcliffe et al. 2015: 196 (cited for Peru).

Canthidium (Canthidium) escalerai : Martínez and Halffter 1986: 27 (cited for Ecuador); Carvajal et al. 2011: 318-319 (cited for Ecuador); Bezdek and Hajek 2012: 301 (catalog of types NMPC).

Canthidium (Neocanthidium) escalerai : Cupello 2018: 469 (transferred to the subgenus Canthidium (Neocanthidium) Martínez, Halffter & Pereira, 1964. Distribution, cited for Ecuador); Chamorro et al. 2018: 92 (cited for Ecuador).

Type specimens.

Canthidium escalerai Balthasar, 1939. The holotype (♀) is deposited at the NMPC (ex coll. V Balthasar). Locality: Ecuador, Bucay, examined.

Holotype (♀): "Typus [p, red label, black margin]", "C. escalerai / n. sp. m. / Dr. V. Balthasar det [p and hw]", "escalerai / m. [hw, green label, black margin]", "Bucay 300 m / F. Ohs. 23. 6. 05 [p]", "W. Ecuador / Pucay / F. Ohaus S. [p]", "HOLOTYPE [hw, red label]".

Distribution.

Ecuador and Peru.

Records examined.

GUAYAS: Pucay [= Bucay] (1 specimen NMPC).

Temporal data.

Collected in June.

Remarks.

Inhabits coastal lowland evergreen forests at 300 m a.s.l. Collection method unknown.