Sylvicanthon genieri Cupello & Vaz-de-Mello, 2018

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 : 235-237

Sylvicanthon genieri Cupello & Vaz-de-Mello, 2018 Plate 52A

Sylvicanthon genieri Cupello & Vaz-de-Mello, 2018: 57 (characters in key), 72 (figure 24 distribution), 80 (original description. Type locality: Tungurahua, 6 km east from Río Negro, 1500 m), 84 (figure 27A, B).

Type specimens.

Sylvicanthon genieri Cupello & Vaz-de-Mello, 2018. The holotype (♂) is deposited at the CMNC (see Cupello and Vaz-de-Mello 2018: 81). Locality: Tungurahua, 6 km east from Río Negro, 1500 m, not examined.

Distribution.

Ecuador and Peru.

Literature records.

MORONA SANTIAGO: Untsuants, site 4, 1100 m ( Cupello and Vaz-de-Mello 2018: 81); Untsuante [= Untsuants], site 7, 900 m ( Cupello and Vaz-de-Mello 2018: 81). NAPO: km 7.3 Sarayacu-Loreto Road, 1200 m ( Cupello and Vaz-de-Mello 2018: 81); km 11.1 Sarayacu-Loreto Road, 1200 m ( Cupello and Vaz-de-Mello 2018: 81); km 25.4 Sarayacu-Loreto Road, 950 m ( Cupello and Vaz-de-Mello 2018: 81). ORELLANA: Onkone Gare Camp, 220 m ( Cupello and Vaz-de-Mello 2018: 81). PASTAZA: 09 km ESE Veracruz ( Cupello and Vaz-de-Mello 2018: 81); 22 km SE Puyo, 900 m ( Cupello and Vaz-de-Mello 2018: 81); Puyo, Llandia, 17 km N Puyo ( Cupello and Vaz-de-Mello 2018: 81); Mera, 1 km E Mera, 1100 m ( Cupello and Vaz-de-Mello 2018: 81). PASTAZA [= TUNGURAHUA]: 4.3 km Rio Negro, 1200 m ( Cupello and Vaz-de-Mello 2018: 81). TUNGURAHUA: 3 km W Río Negro, 1200 m ( Cupello and Vaz-de-Mello 2018: 81); 4.3 km E Río Negro, 1200 m ( Cupello and Vaz-de-Mello 2018: 81); 6 km E Río Negro, 1500 m ( Cupello and Vaz-de-Mello 2018: 81); Baños El Topo, 1590 m ( Cupello and Vaz-de-Mello 2018: 81). TUNGURAHUA [= PASTAZA]: 8 km E Rio Negro, 10 km W Pastaza (= Shell), 1400 m ( Cupello and Vaz-de-Mello 2018: 81). ZAMORA CHINCHIPE: Upper Río Comainas, Cordillera del Cóndor, 1150 m ( Cupello and Vaz-de-Mello 2018: 81).

Temporal data.

Collected in January, July, August, and October.

Remarks.

Inhabits the lowland evergreen forests, evergreen foothill forests, and evergreen lower montane forests across the Amazonian range from 220-1590 m a.s.l. According to Cupello and Vaz-de-Mello (2018), this species has been collected beneath the leaf litter and with pitfall traps baited with human feces. The locality Upper Río Comainas, Cordillera del Cóndor, 1150 m a.s.l, and their coordinates 03°54'S, 78°25'W (see Cupello and Vaz-de-Mello 2018, page 81) are located in Peru, Amazonas.