Deltochilum (Deltochilum) orbiculare Lansberge, 1874

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 : 89-91

Deltochilum (Deltochilum) orbiculare Lansberge, 1874 Plate 21B

Deltochilum orbiculare Lansberge, 1874a: 6 (original description. Type locality: Bahia).

Deltochilum orbiculare : Kolbe 1893: 194 (distribution); Gillet 1911a: 36 (complete list of species); Pessôa and Lane 1941: 428 (characters in key), 429 (redescription); Blackwelder 1944: 203 (list of species from Latin America); Medina et al. 2001: 136 (cited for Colombia); Hamel-Leigue et al. 2006: 14 (cited for Bolivia); Ratcliffe et al. 2015: 196 (cited for Peru); Boilly 2015a: 85 (characters in key); 87 (figure 7), 88 (cited for Guyana).

Deltochilum (Telhyboma) orbiculare : Paulian 1938: 244 (redescription); Balthasar 1941: 344 (cited for Peru); Pereira and Martínez 1956a: 121 (cited); Vulcano and Pereira 1964: 647 (catalog of species); Vulcano and Pereira 1967: 555 (characters in key); Vaz-de-Mello 2000: 192 (cited for Brazil); Medina et al. 2003: 65 (distribution); González et al. 2009: 271 (redescription); Carvajal et al. 2011: 316-317 (cited for Ecuador).

Deltochilum (Deltochilum) orbiculare : Génier 2012: 31 (distribution); Chamorro et al. 2018: 84 (figure 7G), 94 (cited for Ecuador).

Type specimens.

Deltochilum orbiculare Lansberge, 1874. One syntype examined deposited at the MNHN (ex coll. V Lansberge). Lectotype to be designated in a future work on this species group.

Distribution.

Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

Records examined.

MORONA SANTIAGO: Comunidad Unsuants, 1100 m, Cordillera del Kutukú (5 specimens MQCAZ). NAPO: cerca al Tena, 505 m, Pungarayacu (1 specimen MQCAZ); Estación Científica Jatun Sacha, 450 m (11 specimens MQCAZ). ORELLANA: Dayuma Campo Hormiguero, plataforma Hormiguero, 320 m (1 specimen MUTPL); Dayuma Campo Palanda-Yuca Sur, Estación Palanda 5, 320 m (1 specimen MUTPL); Dayuma Campo Pindo Suyana, 270 m (1 specimen MUTPL); El Dorado plataforma Guarango, 300 m (1 specimen MUTPL); Estación Científica Yasuní PUCE, 250 m (36 specimens MQCAZ); Ines Arango road Tiwino-río Shiripuno, 250 m (1 specimen MUTPL); road to Maxus km 117 Iro, Parque Nacional Yasuní (1 specimen MUTPL); Estación de Biodiversidad Tiputini, 215 m, Parque Nacional Yasuní (4 specimens MUTPL); San Sebastian de Coca, 345 m, Comuna Guataraco, Campo Pata (1 specimen MUTPL); Yampuna (4 specimens MQCAZ). PASTAZA: Bosque Protector Oglán Alto, 660 m (1 specimen MUTPL). SUCUMBÍOS: Aucayacu Río El Eno, 16 km de Lago Agrio, 290 m (1 specimen MUTPL); Quebrada Mansoya, 200 m, Río Putumayo Cuyabeno (1 specimen MUTPL).

Literature records.

MORONA SANTIAGO: Untsuants sitio 7, 900 m ( Génier 2012: 31).

Temporal data.

Collected in January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, November, and December.

Remarks.

Inhabits the lowland evergreen forests and evergreen foothill forests of the Amazon region from 200-1100 m a.s.l. Collected with canopy fogging methods and pitfall traps baited with human feces.