Uroxys frankenbergeri 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 : 240-242

Uroxys frankenbergeri Balthasar, 1940 Plate 53A

Uroxys frankenbergeri Balthasar, 1940: 35 (original description. Type locality: Loja).

Uroxys frankenbergeri : Blackwelder 1944: 203 (list of species for Latin America); Vulcano and Pereira 1967: 579 (characters in key); Carvajal et al. 2011: 318-319 (cited for Ecuador); Bezdek and Hajek 2011: 358 (catalog of types NMPC); Krajcik 2012: 262 (complete list of species); Chamorro et al. 2018: 98 (cited for Ecuador).

Type specimens.

Uroxys frankenbergeri Balthasar, 1940. The holotype (♀) is deposited at the NMPC (ex coll. V. Balthasar). Locality: Cajanuma, examined.

Holotype (♀): "S ECUADOR / Cajanuma / Ohaus S. [p]", "Loja Cajanuma / F. Ohs. 25.8.05 [p]", "Arrow determ. / Uroxys / sp. [p and hw]", "Typus [p, red label, black margin]", "Uroxys / frankenbergeri / n. sp. / Dr. V. Balthasar det. [p and hw]", "frankenbergeri / m. [hw, green label, black margin]", "Mus. Nat. Pragae / 65709 / Inv. [hw and p, red label]".

Distribution.

Only known from Ecuador.

Records examined.

LOJA: Loja, Cajanuma (1 specimen NMPC).

Temporal data.

Collected in September

Remarks.

This species is thought to occur in the evergreen high montane forests of the Andean region. The collection method is unknown.