Deltochilum (Deltohyboma) spinipes Paulian, 1938

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 : 252-253

Deltochilum (Deltohyboma) spinipes Paulian, 1938

Deltochilum (Deltochilum) spinipes Paulian, 1938: 280 (original description. Type locality: Colombie [= Colombia] Santa Fé de Bogota, Muzo, Antioquia, Fiasagusuga = Fusagasugá]. Équator [= Ecuador]: environs d’Ambato [= around Ambato], Macas).

Remarks.

This species was recorded for Ecuador by the following authors: Vulcano and Pereira (1964: 659, list of species); Vulcano and Pereira (1967: 557, list of species); Carvajal et al. (2011: 316-317; list of species); Krajcik (2012: 88, list of species).

Silva and Vaz-de-Mello (2014: 281-283) explained that the type (holotype) and cotypes (paratypes) designated by Paulian (1938) are significantly different from the specimens known from Ecuador. Specifically, Ecuadorian specimens are dull blue in color and have longer bodies compared to those described by Paulian, which were bright green in coloration and smaller in size. It is possible that they belong to different species within this group. According to Silva and Vaz-de-Mello (2014), the type series of D. spinipes exhibit variations (especially in body length and coloration), suggesting that D. spinipes might represent a complex of species.