Malagoniella (Megatophomima) cupreicollis (Waterhouse, 1890)

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 : 157

Malagoniella (Megatophomima) cupreicollis (Waterhouse, 1890) Plate 34A

Megatopha cupreicollis Waterhouse, 1890b: 412 (original description. Type locality: Peru).

Megatopha cupreicollis : Gillet 1911a: 27 (complete list of species); Balthasar 1941: 341 (cited for Peru); Blackwelder 1944: 198 (list of species for Latin America); Martínez 1950: 266 (distribution); Balthasar 1951: 326 (cited for Peru).

Megatophomina cupreicollis : Martínez 1961: 85 (cited as new combination, distribution); Vulcano and Pereira 1964: 579 (catalog of species, distribution).

Malagoniella (Megatophomima) cupreicollis : Halffter and Martínez 1966: 137 (distribution); Krajcik 2012: 156 (complete list of species); Chamorro et al. 2014 a: 740 (cited for Ecuador, figure 1); Chamorro et al. 2018: 78 (figures 1D and 1G), 96 (cited for Ecuador).

Malagoniella cupreicollis : Ratcliffe et al. 2015: 196 (cited for Peru).

Type specimens.

Megatopha cupreicollis Waterhouse, 1890. The holotype is deposited at the NHML. Locality: Peru, examined.

Holotype (sex unknown): "Peruvia [hw]", "877 [p]", "67.45 [p]", "Type [p, red margin]", "Cupricollis / Reich / Peruvia. [hw]", "Megatopha / cupreicollis, / (Type) Waterh. [hw]".

Distribution.

Ecuador and Peru.

Records examined.

LOJA: Amaluza, Angascola, 2741 m (2 specimens CEMT; 8 specimens MUTPL); Catamayo, Alamala, 1380 (4 specimens CEMT; 7 specimens MUTPL); Catamayo, Trapichillo, 1424 m (11 specimens MUTPL).

Temporal data.

Collected in February and December.

Remarks.

Inhabits the matorral dry montane forests of the Andean region from 1200-1700 m a.s.l. Collected with pitfall traps baited with pig feces.