Deltochilum (Deltohyboma) speciosissimum 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 : 97

Deltochilum (Deltohyboma) speciosissimum Balthasar, 1939 Plate 23A

Deltochilum (s. str.) speciosissimum Balthasar, 1939f: 16 (original description. Type locality: Ecuador).

Deltochilum speciosissimum : Blackwelder 1944: 203 (list of species from Latin America); Krajcik, 2012: 88 (complete list of species).

Deltochilum (Deltohyboma) speciosissimum : Lane 1847: 110 (synonym of Deltochilum (s. str.) speciosissimum Balthasar, 1939); Vulcano and Pereira 1964: 659 (catalog of species, distribution); Vulcano and Pereira 1967: 557 (characters in key); Génier 2001: 7 (comment); Carvajal et al. 2011: 316-317 (cited for Ecuador); Bezdek and Hajek 2011: 368 (catalog of the types of the NMPC); Chamorro et al. 2018: 94 (cited for Ecuador).

Type specimens.

Deltochilum (s. str.) speciosissimum Balthasar, 1939. The lectotype (♂) and one paralectotype are deposited at the NMPC. Locality: Ecuador Canelos, examined.

Lectotype (♂): "ECUADOR / Canelos / F. Ohaus S. [p]", "Kolbe determ. / Deltochilum / pretiosum /? ♂ Har. [p and hw]", "LECTOTYPE [p, red label]", "Speciosissimun / m [hw, green label, black margin]", "1323 / Dok L. Mencl, 2001 [p, green label]", "DELTOCHILUM / SPECIOSISSIMUM / BALTHASAR / LECTOTYPE / Dés F. Génier 2000 [p and hw]".

Paralectotype (♂): "ECUADOR / Sabanilla / F. Ohaus S. / 20. 9. 05 [p and hw]", "Typus [p, red label]", "PARALECTOTYPE [p, yellow label]", "DELTOCHILUM / SPECIOSISSIMUM / BALTHASAR / PARALECTOTYPE / Dés. F. Génier 2000 [p and hw]'.

Distribution.

Only known from Ecuador.

Records examined.

PASTAZA: Canelos (1 specimen NMPC). ZAMORA CHINCHIPE: Sabanilla [= El Tambo] (1 specimen NMPC).

Temporal data.

Collected in September and December.

Remarks.

This species may be distributed in the foothill evergreen forests as well as on the low-montane evergreen forests of the Amazon region. The collection method is unknown.