Uroxys spaethi Balthasar, 1940

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 : 247

Uroxys spaethi Balthasar, 1940 Plate 55A

Uroxys spaethi Balthasar, 1940: 37 (original description. Type locality: Ecuador, Santa Inez [= Santa Inés]).

Uroxys spaethi : Vulcano and Pereira 1967: 580 (characters in key); Carvajal et al. 2011: 318-319 (cited for Ecuador).

Uroxys spaethi : Bezdek and Hajek 2011: 360 (catalog of the types of the NMPC); Krajcik 2012: 262 (complete list of species); Chamorro et al. 2018: 99 (cited for Ecuador).

Type specimens.

Uroxys spaethi Balthasar, 1940. The holotype (♀) is deposited at the NMPC (ex coll. V Baltashar). Locality: Ecuador, Santa Jnéz [= Santa Inés], examined.

Holotype (♀): "Santa Jnéz / (Ecuad.) / R. Haensch S. [p]", "Typus [p, red label]", "U. Spaethi / n.sp. / Dr. V. Balthasar det. [p and hw]", "spaethi / m. [hw, green label]", "HOLOTYPE [hw, red label]".

Distribution.

Only known from Ecuador.

Records examined.

TUNGURAHUA: Baños, El Topo, 1590 m (17 specimens CEMT). UNDETERMINED PROVINCE: Santa Jnez [= Santa Inés] (1 specimen NMPC).

Temporal data.

Collected in January.

Remarks.

Inhabits the evergreen lower montane forests of the Andean region at 1590 m a.s.l. Collected with pitfall traps baited with human feces.