Oruscatus opalescens Bates, 1870

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 : 196

Oruscatus opalescens Bates, 1870 Plate 44D

Oruscatus opalescens Bates, 1870: 174 (original description. Type locality: Equador, prope Cuencam [= near Cuenca]).

Oruscatus opalescens : Harold 1880a: 27 (cited for Colombia); Gillet 1911a: 88 (catalog); d’ Olsoufieff 1924: 21 (characters in key), 61 (redescription); Blackwelder 1944: 210 (list of species from Latin America); Vulcano and Pereira 1967: 566 (characters in key); Halffter and Edmonds 1982: 137 (catalog, distribution); Medina et al. 2001: 139 (cited for Colombia); Carvajal et al. 2011: 322-323 (cited for Ecuador); Krajcik 2012: 190 (complete list of species); Chamorro et al. 2014 b: 288 (figures A, B, C, D), 289 (distribution), 290 (diagnosis); Chamorro et al. 2018: 82 (figure 5E), 83 (figure 6B), 97 (cited for Ecuador).

Type specimens.

Oruscatus opalescens Bates, 1870. Type material not examined.

Distribution.

Colombia and Ecuador.

Records examined.

LOJA: Loja (14 specimens MNHN); Parque Nacional Podocarpus (1 specimen CEMT). MORONA SANTIAGO: Macas (1 specimen MHNH); Tinajillas, 2140 m (1 specimen MQCAZ). NAPO: Oyacachi, Río Cedro, 3264-3320 m (2 specimens MUTPL). PICHINCHA: Quito (1 specimen MNHN). UNDETERMINED PROVINCE: without specific locality (8 specimens MNHN); without specific locality (1 specimen NHML).

Literature records.

AZUAY: prope Cuencam [= near Cuenca] ( Bates 1870: 175).

Temporal data.

Collected in November.

Remarks.

Inhabits the montane cloud forests and the evergreen high montane forests of the Andean region from 2140-3320 m a.s.l. Collected in Andean tapir feces.