Bdelyrus lobatus Cook, 1998

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 : 16-18

Bdelyrus lobatus Cook, 1998 Plate 5D

Bdelyrus lobatus Cook, 1998: 645 (original description. Type locality: Peru, Huánuco).

Bdelyrus lobatus : Cook 2000: 553 (characters in key); Krajcik 2012: 52 (complete list of species); Ratcliffe et al. 2015: 196 (cited for Peru); Chamorro et al. 2018: 91 (cited for Ecuador).

Type specimens.

Bdelyrus lobatus Cook, 1998. The holotype (♂) is deposited at the CMNC (ex coll. H. Howden), (see Cook 1998: 645). Locality: Huánuco, 14 km east of Tingo Maria, not examined.

Distribution.

Ecuador and Peru.

Records examined.

PASTAZA: Bosque Protector Oglán Alto, 575 m (1 specimen CEMT); La Independencia, 1090 m (2 specimens CEMT).

Temporal data.

Collected in July and November.

Remarks.

Inhabits the foothill evergreen forests of the Amazon region from 575-1090 m a.s.l. Collected with canopy fogging methods.