Copris (Copris) incertus Say, 1835

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 : 251

Copris (Copris) incertus Say, 1835

Copris incerta Say, 1835: 175 (original description. Type locality: Mexico).

Remarks.

This species was recorded for Ecuador by the following authors: Blackwelder (1944: 208) list of species for Latin America; Pereira and D’Andretta (1955b: 261) in the localities of: Pucay [= Bucay], Balzapamba, Ana María [= Hacienda Ana María, Quevedo], Sigiro, Arenal, Capilla Zaruma, and Galapagos; Matthews (1961: 44) in the localities of: Guayas-Naranjal, Los Ríos-location undetermined, Paramba, Lita, and San Rafael; Carvajal et al. (2011: 320-321) list of species; Chamorro et al. (2018: 93) list of species.

Darling and Génier (2018: 19) mentioned this species was distributed in Mexico, has been subsequently introduced to Hawaii, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Solomon Island, Vanuatu, and Fiji. According to our data, there are no other records of this species in the collections listed.