Dichotomius (Dichotomius) reclinatus (Felsche, 1901)

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 : 121

Dichotomius (Dichotomius) reclinatus (Felsche, 1901) Plate 27C

Pinotus reclinatus Felsche, 1901: 135 (original description. Type locality: Columbia, Cachabé).

Pinotus reclinatus : Gillet 1911a: 62 (complete list of species); Luederwaldt 1929: 22 (characters in key); Blackwelder 1944: 208 (list of species from Latin America); Pereira 1954b: 464 (characters in key).

Dichotomius reclinatus : Vulcano and Pereira 1967: 584 (characters in key); Medina et al. 2001: 138 (cited for Colombia); Krajcik 2012: 92 (complete list of species); Sarmiento-Garcés and Amat-García 2014: 33 (diagnosis).

Dichotomius (Dichotomius) reclinatus : Chamorro et al. 2018: 95 (cited for Ecuador).

Types specimens.

Pinotus reclinatus Felsche, 1901. The holotype is deposited at the SMTD. Locality: Cachabé. Examined.

Holotype (♀): “Cachabé / low c. XII. 96. / (Rosenberg). [p, black margin]", "Typus. [p, red label]", "Coll. C. Felsche / Kauf 20, 1918 [p, green label, black margin]", "reclinatus / Felsche / Colombia [hw, purpure margin]", "HOLOTYPE ♀ [p, black margin]".

Distribution.

Colombia and Ecuador.

Records examined.

ESMERALDAS: Playa de Oro, Pote (1 specimen MQCAZ). COTOPAXI: 4 km de Guasaganda, 300 m (1 specimen MQCAZ). GUAYAS: Bucay, 300 m (1 specimen MZSP). IMBABURA: Lita, 680 m (2 specimens CEMT); Junin (1 specimen MUTPL). LOS RIOS: 47 km S de Santo Domingo, 250 m, Río Palenque Station (1 specimen CMNC). PICHINCHA: Chiriboga, 1800 m (2 specimens CEMT); Choconde, 1200 m, San Miguel de los Bancos (1 specimen MUTPL); Estr. Chiriboga, 1300 m (1 specimen CEMT). SANTO DOMINGO DE LOS TSÁCHILAS: 16 K m SE Santo Domingo, 680 m, Tinalandia (1 specimen CMNC).

Temporal data.

Collected in February, March, June, July, October, November, and December.

Remarks.

Inhabits coastal lowland evergreen forests and coastal evergreen foothill forests from 250-1300 m a.s.l. Collected with pitfall traps baited with human feces.