Uroxys elongatus Harold, 1868

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

Uroxys elongatus Harold, 1868 Plate 52D

Uroxys elongatus Harold, 1868b: 44 (original description. Type locality: Quito).

Uroxys elongatus : Gemminger and Harold 1869: 1002 (catalog); Bates 1891: 24 (cited for Ecuador); Gillet 1911a: 49 (catalog); Campos 1921: 55 (cited for Ecuador); Arrow 1933: 388 (characters in key); Vulcano and Pereira 1967: 580 (characters in key); Medina et al. 2001: 139 (cited for Colombia); Carvajal et al. 2011: 318-319 (cited for Ecuador); Krajcik 2012: 262 (complete list of species); Ratcliffe et al. 2015: 196 (cited for Peru); Chamorro et al. 2018: 79 (figure 2C), 98 (cited for Ecuador).

Uroxys elongata : Blackwelder 1944: 203 (list of species from Latin America).

Type specimens.

Uroxys elongatus Harold, 1868. Five syntypes examined deposited in MNHN (ex coll. HW Bates and ex coll. R Oberthur). Lectotype to be designated in a future work on this species group.

Syntype (♂): "Quito [hw]", “Ex-Musæo / H. W. BATES / 1892 [p, black margin]", "Uroxys / elongatus / ♀ C. Hft III. Harold / typ. [hw]", “MUSÉUM PARIS / 1952 / COLL. R. OBERTHUR [p, green label, black margin]".

Syntype (♂): "Quito [hw]", “Ex-Musæo / H. W. BATES / 1892 [p, black margin]", "Uroxys / elongatus / ♀ Harold [hw]", “MUSÉUM PARIS / 1952 / COLL. R. OBERTHUR [p, green label, black margin]".

Syntype (♂): "Quito [hw]", “Ex-Musæo / H. W. BATES / 1892 [p, black margin]", “MUSÉUM PARIS / 1952 / COLL. R. OBERTHUR [p, green label, black margin]".

Syntype (♀): "Cotacachi, / Ecuador. / 11-13500 feet. / Ed. Whymper [p and hw]", "Uroxys / elongatus / Harold [hw]", “MUSÉUM PARIS / 1952 / COLL. R. OBERTHUR [p, green label, black margin]".

Syntype (♀): "Cotacachi, / Ecuador. / 11-13500 feet. / Ed. Whymper [p and hw]", “MUSÉUM PARIS / 1952 / COLL. R. OBERTHUR [p, green label, black margin]".

Distribution.

Colombia and Ecuador.

Records examined.

CARCHI: 10 km W de Tufiño, 3600 m (3 specimens CEMT); 15 km SW de Tulcán (2 specimens CEMT); km 3 road Tufiño-Maldonado, 3400 m (1 specimen CEMT); Montufar Los Encinos, 3450 m (2 specimens CEMT); Tulcán ciudadela del maestro, 2950 m (3 specimens MUTPL). IMBABURA: Cotacachi (2 specimens MNHN). PICHINCHA: Quito (3 specimens MNHN).

Temporal data.

Collected in April, July, and October.

Remarks.

Inhabits the evergreen high montane forests of the Andean region from 2950-3350 m a.s.l. Collected manually in cow dung and with pitfall trap baited with pig feces.