Ontherus (Ontherus) azteca Harold, 1869

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 : 170-172

Ontherus (Ontherus) azteca Harold, 1869 Plate 38B

Ontherus azteca Harold, 1869b: 503 (original description. Type locality: Cordova).

Ontherus azteca : Bates 1887: 50 (redescription, distribution); Gillet 1911a: 57 (complete list of species); Blackwelder 1944: 206 (list of species of Latin America); Medina et al. 2001: 138 (cited for Colombia); Ratcliffe 2002: 16 (cited for Panama); Hamel-Leigue et al. 2006: 16 (cited for Bolivia); Solís and Kohlmann 2012: 6 (cited for Costa Rica); Krajcik 2012: 174 (complete list of species); Ratcliffe et al. 2015: 197 (cited for Peru).

Ontherus (Ontherus) azteca : Génier 1996: 87 (cited as new combination, redescripcion); Vaz-de-Mello 2000: 194 (list of species for Brazil); Morón 2003: 56 (cited for Mexico); Carvajal et al. 2011: 318-319 (cited for Ecuador); Chamorro et al. 2018: 96 (cited for Ecuador).

Ontherus villosus Luederwaldt, 1930: 107 (original description); Luederwaldt 1931a: 372 (characters in key), 391 (redescription); Pessôa and Lane 1941: 457 (characters in key); Blackwelder 1944: 206 (list of species of Latin America); Génier 1996: 87 (synonym of Ontherus azteca Harold, 1869).

Ontherus strius Howden & Young, 1981: 122 (original description); Génier 1996: 87 (synonym of Ontherus azteca Harold, 1869).

Type specimens.

Ontherus azteca Harold, 1869. The holotype (♀) is deposited at the NHML (see Génier 1996: 88). Locality: Mexico, Oaxaca, not examined.

Ontherus villosus Luederwaldt, 1930. The lectotype (♂) is deposited at the MZSP (see Génier 1996: 88). Locality: São Paulo, Ypiranga, not examined.

Ontherus strius Howden & Young, 1981. The holotype (♂) is deposited at the USNM (see Génier 1996: 89). Locality: Panama, Canal Zone, not examined.

Distribution.

Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, and Peru.

Records examined.

ORELLANA: San Sebastian de Coca Comuna Huataraco (1 specimen MUTPL).

Literature records.

NAPO: km 7.3 Sarayacu-Loreto Rd., 1200 m ( Génier 1996: 89). NAPO [= SUCUMBÍOS]: 2 km de Limoncocha, 250 m ( Génier 1996: 89); Li moncocha, 250 m ( Génier 1996: 89). PASTAZA: 25 km NNE Puyo, 1000 m ( Génier 1996: 89); 22 km SE del Puyo, 900 m ( Génier, 1996: 89).

Temporal data.

Collected in March.

Remarks.

Inhabits the lowland evergreen forests and evergreen foothill forests of the Amazon region from 250-1200 m a.s.l. Although the collection method for specimens from Ecuador is unknown, Génier (1996) reported that this species was collected in other countries using pitfall traps baited with feces and carrion.