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

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Ontherus (Ontherus) azteca Harold, 1869
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Ontherus (Ontherus) azteca Harold, 1869 View in CoL 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.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

Genus

Ontherus