Uroxys ohausi (Balthasar, 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 : 245

Uroxys ohausi (Balthasar, 1938) Plate 54B

Pseuduroxys ohausi Balthasar, 1938: 211 (original description. Type locality: Ecuador: Loja).

Pseuduroxys ohausi : Blackwelder 1944: 204 (list of species from Latin America); Carvajal et al. 2011: 318-319 (cited for Ecuador); Bezdek and Hajek 2011: 356 (catalog of the types of the NMPC); Krajcik 2012: 230 (complete list of species).

Uroxys ohausi : Chamorro et al. 2018: 98 (cited for Ecuador).

Type specimens.

Pseuduroxys ohausi Balthasar, 1938. Four syntypes examined deposited at the MSMF and NMPC (ex coll. V Balthasar). Lectotype to be designated in a future work on this species group.

Syntype (♂): "ECUADOR / Loja / Ohaus S. [p]", "Loja Villonaco / F. Ohs. 31.8.05 [p]", "genotyp! / Pseuduroxys / ohausi / n. sp / Dr. V. Balthasar. det. [p and hw]", "Senckenberg- / Museum / Frankfurt / Main [p]", "Typus [p, red label, black margin]".

Syntype (♂): "ECUADOR / Loja / Ohaus S. [p]", "Loja Villonaco / F. Ohs. 5.9.05 [p]", "Typus [p, red label, black margin]", "Pseuduroxys / ohausi n.sp. / Dr. V. Balthasar det. [p and hw]", "Ohausi / m [hw, green label]", "Mus. Nat. Pragae / 65705 / Inv. [p and hw, red label]", "PRAGUE MUSEUM / LOANED: X. 2008 / D.J.MANN [p, blue label]".

Syntype (♂): "ECUADOR / Loja / Ohaus S. [p]", "Loja Villonaco / F. Ohs. 5.9.05 [p]", "Typus [p, red label, black margin]", "tp:taxon-name-part taxon-name-part-type="genus" full-name="Pseuduroxys">Pseuduroxys / ohausi n.sp. / Dr. V. Balthasar det. [p and hw]", "Box 82 / det. D.J. Mann. 2008 [p, blue label]".

Syntype (♀): “‘ ECUADOR / Loja / Ohaus S. [p]", "Loja Villonaco / F. Ohs. 5.9.05 [p]", "Typus [p, red label, black margin]", "Pseuduroxys / ohausi n.sp. / Dr. V. Balthasar det. [p and hw]", "Mus. Nat. Pragae / 65705 / Inv. [p and hw, red label]", "PRAGUE MUSEUM / LOANED: X. 2008 / D.J.MANN [p, blue label]".

Distribution.

Only known from Ecuador.

Records examined.

LOJA: Loja, Villonaco (2 specimens CEMT; 3 specimens MNPC; 1 specimen MSMF).

Temporal data.

Collected in August and September.

Remarks.

This species may be distributed in the montane cloud forests and/or high montane evergreen forests of the Andean region. The collection method is unknown.