Eurysternus hypocrita Balthasar, 1939

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 : 141

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Eurysternus hypocrita Balthasar, 1939
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Eurysternus hypocrita Balthasar, 1939 View in CoL Plate 30D

Eurysternus hypocrita Balthasar, 1939g: 114 (original description. Type locality: Franz Guiana (Gourdenville, Cayenne), Surinam, Peru, Ecuador, Columbien [= Colombia], and Brazilien [= Brazil]).

Eurysternus hypocrita : Balthasar 1941: 340 (cited for Peru); Blackwelder 1944: 197 (list of species of Latin America); Balthasar 1951: 325 (cited for Peru); Halffter and Halffter 1976: 55 (comment); Jessop 1985: 1101 (cited as synonym of Eurysternus velutinus Bates, 1887); Génier 2009: 134 (redescription), 287 (characters in key); Camero 2010: 149 (characters in key), 156 (diagnosis); Carvajal et al. 2011: 314-315 (cited for Ecuador); Krajcik 2012: 107 (complete list of species); Bezdek and Hajek 2012: 316 (catalog of type NMPC); 317 (comment); Ratcliffe et al. 2015: 195 (cited for Peru); Chamorro et al. 2018: 95 (cited for Ecuador).

Type specimens.

Eurysternus hypocrita Balthasar, 1939. The lectotype (♂) is deposited at the MSMF (see Génier 2009: 134). Locality: Cayenne, not examined.

Distribution.

Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Surinam, and Venezuela.

Records examined.

MORONA SANTIAGO: Comunidad Unsuants, 700 m, Cordillera del Kutukú (3 specimens MECN); Nuevo Israel, Cordillera del Kutukú (2 specimens MUTPL). NAPO: sector Talac, 730 m, Pungarayacu (1 specimen MQCAZ); Tena (6 specimens CEMT). ORELLANA: Bloque 31 Parque Nacional Yasuní, 200 m (2 specimens MECN); Comunidad Kiwcha Chiruisla Station, 180-250 m (4 specimens MQCAZ); Dayuma Campo Hormiguero, plataforma Hormiguero, 320 m (1 specimen MUTPL); Dayuma Campo Palanda, 235 m, plataforma Primavera 1 (1 specimen MUTPL); Dayuma Campo Pindo, 290 m, plataforma Pindo 9 (1 specimen MUTPL); Dayuma plataforma Ungurahua, 300 m (1 specimen MUTPL); El Dorado plataforma Guarango, 300 m (1 specimen MUTPL); Estación Biológica y Centro de Capacitación IAMOE, Rodrigo Borja (6 specimens CEMT); Estación Científica Yasuní PUCE, 250 m, Parque Nacional Yasuní (24 specimens MQCAZ); Estación de Biodiversidad Tiputini USFQ, 220 m, Parque Nacional Yasuní (1 specimen MUTPL); Pozo Nashiño Bloque 31, Parque Nacional Yasuní, 250 m (2 specimens MECN); San Sebastian del Coca, Comuna Guataraco Campo Pata, 345 m (2 specimens CEMT); San Sebastian del Coca, Comuna Shamanal Campo Palo Azul, 345 m (1 specimen MUTPL). PASTAZA: Bosque Protector Oglán Alto, 555 m (1 specimen CEMT; 2 specimens MUTPL); Nuevo San Jose del Curaray, 245 m (1 specimen MUTPL); Villano Pandanuque (1 specimen MUTPL). SUCUMBÍOS: 6 km de Dureno, 290 m, Precooperativa Los Vergeles (1 specimen MGO-UC); Bermejo plataforma ER-A road to Lumbaqui (1 specimen MUTPL); Nueva Loja plataforma Iguana, 310 m (1 specimen MUTPL); Pacayacu Campo Libertador, 260 m (1 specimen MUTPL); Reserva de Producción Faunística Cuyabeno trocha Zábalo-Guepi (1 specimen MUTPL); Tarapoa Campo Marian, 260 m, plataforma Fanny 5 (1 specimen MUTPL); Tarapoa, Nuevo Manabí, 270 m (1 specimen MUTPL). ZAMORA CHINCHIPE: Zurmi, Comunidad La Wants, 1010 m (1 specimen MEPN; 1 specimen MUTPL); Zurmi Las Orquideas Río Nangaritza, 870 m (1 specimen MUTPL).

Literature records.

GUAYAS [= SANTA ELENA]: 27 km S de Puerto López, 76 km N de Santa Elena, 152 m ( Génier 2009: 137). MORONA SANTIAGO: Comunidad Unsuants sitio 1, 700 m ( Génier 2009: 137). NAPO: 12 km WSW Tena, 600 m ( Génier 2009: 137); 20 km S Tena, 600 m ( Génier 2009: 137); 3.3 km E Puerto Napo, 400 m ( Génier 2009: 137); Estación Biologica Jatun Sacha, 450 m ( Génier 2009: 137); Estación Biologica Jatun Sacha, 21 km Puerto Napo, 400 m ( Génier 2009: 137). NAPO [= ORELLANA]: Scyasuni ( Génier 2009: 137). ORELLANA: Estación Biológica y Centro de Capacitación IAMOE, Rodrigo Borja ( Génier 2009: 137); Estación Científica Yasuní PUCE, 250 m ( Génier 2009: 138); Estación de Biodiversidad Tiputini USFQ, Parque Nacional Yasuní, 220 m ( Génier 2009: 138). NAPO [= SUCUMBÍOS]: Río Aguarico, 150 m ( Génier 2009: 137); Río Yasuní site No. 2 ( Génier 2009: 138). PASTAZA: 22 km SE Puyo, 900 m ( Génier 2009: 138); Arajuno ( Génier 2009: 138); Chichirota ( Génier 2009: 138). SUCUMBÍOS: Dureno Río Aguarico, 150 m ( Génier 2009: 138); Tarapoa ( Génier 2009: 138); Zábalo, 520 m ( Génier 2009: 138).

Temporal data.

Collected every month of the year.

Remarks.

Inhabits the lowland evergreen forests at 152 m a.s.l. However, this record cited by Génier (2009) may be erroneus. In the Amazon it was recorded in the lowland evergreen forests and foothill evergreen forests from 150-1010 m a.s.l. Collected manually and with pitfall traps baited with carrion and human feces.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

Genus

Eurysternus