Onthophagus (Onthophagus) insularis Boheman, 1858

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 : 185-186

Onthophagus (Onthophagus) insularis Boheman, 1858 Plate 41D

Onthophagus insularis Boheman, 1858: 47 (original description. Type locality: Insula Taiti).

Onthophagus insularis : Gemminger and Harold 1869: 1031 (catalog); Gillet 1911a: 213 (catalog); Boucomont and Gillet 1927: 213 (catalog of species); Krajcik 2012: 180 (complete list of species); Rossini et al. 2018a: 549 (figures: 4g-i, 4o-r, 5b), 552-553 (characters in key), 578 (redescription), 579 (distribution); Rossini et al. 2018b: 10 (list of species of the osculatii complex).

Type specimens.

Onthophagus insularis Boheman, 1858. The lectotype (♂) is deposited at the NHRS (see Rossini et al. 2018a: 580). Locality: Taiti, not examined.

Distribution.

Supposedly known only from Ecuador.

Literature records.

GUAYAS: Probably Ecuador, around Guayaquil ( Rossini et al. 2018a: 579).

Temporal data.

It is not known when this species was collected.

Remarks.

According to Rossini et al. (2018a), it is possible that this species may be found in the Pacific coastal lowland semi-deciduous forests. The collection method is unknown.