Uroxys gorgon Arrow, 1933

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 : 242

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.826.26488

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scientific name

Uroxys gorgon Arrow, 1933
status

 

Uroxys gorgon Arrow, 1933 View in CoL Plate 53B

Uroxys gorgon Arrow, 1933: 397 (original description. Type locality: COLOMBIA: Gorgona I).

Uroxys gorgon : Blackwelder 1944: 203 (list of species of Latin America); Contreras 1951: 222 (cited for Colombia); Vulcano and Pereira 1967: 581 (characters in key); Bacchus 1978: 103 (catalogue of the types of the species described by Arrow); Howden and Young 1981: 51 (characters in key); 53 (redescription); Medina et al. 2001: 139 (cited for Colombia); Ratcliffe 2002: 15 (cited for Panama); Carvajal et al. 2011: 318-319 (cited for Ecuador); Krajcik 2012: 262 (complete list of species); Solís and Kohlmann 2012: 5 (cited for Costa Rica); Solís and Kohlmann 2013: 291 (characters in key), 307 (redescription); Chamorro et al. 2018: 98 (cited for Ecuador).

Type specimens.

Uroxys gorgon Arrow, 1933. The lectotype (♂) and nine paralectotypes are deposited in NHML (see Bacchus 1978: 103). Locality: Colombia: Gorgona Island, not examined.

Distribution.

Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Panama

Records examined.

MANABÍ: Pedernales, 100 m (1 specimen MQCAZ).

Temporal data.

Collected in November.

Remarks.

Inhabits lowland evergreen forests at 100 m a.s.l. This species was found in the fur of a three-toed sloth.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

Genus

Uroxys