Onthophagus (Onthophagus) digitifer Boucomont, 1932

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 : 183-185

Onthophagus (Onthophagus) digitifer Boucomont, 1932 Plate 41B

Onthophagus digitifer Boucomont, 1932: 324 (original description. Type locality: Pérou, Puno Chanchamayo, Vilcanota; Colombie orientale, Huaso).

Onthophagus digitifer : Balthasar 1941: 352 (cited for Peru); Blackwelder 1944: 211 (list of species from Latin America); Balthasar 1951: 337 (cited for Peru); Howden and Young 1981: 111 (cited as synonym of Onthophagus coscineus Bates, 1887); Kohlmann and Solís 2001: 187 (cited as synonym of Onthophagus coscineus Bates, 1887); Ratcliffe 2002: 17 (cited as synonym of Onthophagus coscineus Bates, 1887); Pulido-Herrera and Zunino 2007: 102 (catalog of species, distribution); Solís and Kohlmann 2012: 8 (cited as synonym of Onthophagus coscineus Bates, 1887).

Onthophagus (Onthophagus) digitifer : Chamorro et al. 2018: 97 (cited for Ecuador).

Type specimens.

Onthophagus digitifer Boucomont, 1932. Five syntypes examined deposited at the MNHN and SMTD (coll. C Felsche, ex coll. A Boucomont). Lectotype to be designated in a future work on this species group.

Distribution.

Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

Records examined.

ORELLANA: Estación de Biodiversidad Tiputini USFQ, 215 m, Parque Nacional Yasuní (5 specimens CEMT; 1 specimen MUTPL). SUCUMBÍOS: El Dorado de Cascales Pozo Mascarey, 395 m (1 specimen MUTPL).

Temporal data.

Collected in May and June.

Remarks.

Inhabits the lowland evergreen forests of the Amazon region from 215-395 m a.s.l. Collected with flight interception traps and pitfall traps baited with carrion and human feces.