Deltochilum (Hybomidium) orbignyi amazonicum Bates, 1887

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 : 100

Deltochilum (Hybomidium) orbignyi amazonicum Bates, 1887 Plate 23C

Deltochilum amazonicum Bates, 1887: 37 (original description. Type locality: Amazons, Ega [= Tefé], Pebas).

Deltochilum amazonicum : Gillet 1911a: 35 (complete list of species); Boucomont 1928c: 3 (distribution); Blackwelder 1944: 202 (list of species from Latin America); Medina et al. 2001: 136 (cited for Colombia); Hamel-Leigue et al. 2006: 14 (list of species from Bolivia); Krajcik 2012: 88 (complete list of species); Ratcliffe et al. 2015: 195 (cited for Peru).

Deltochilum gibbosum Subsp. amazonicum : Kolbe 1905: 534 (distribution).

Deltochilum (Tetraodontides) amazonicum : Paulian 1938: 262 (redescription).

Deltochilum (Hybomidium) amazonicum : Vulcano and Pereira 1964: 647 (catalog of species); Vulcano and Pereira 1967: 560 (characters in key); Vaz-de-Mello 2000: 192 (cited for Brazil); González et al. 2009: 265 (redescription), 270 (characters in key).

Deltochilum (Hybomidium) orbignyi amazonicum : González-Alvarado and Vaz-de-Mello 2014: 450 (cited as new status, distribution), 472 (characters in key); Chamorro et al. 2018: 86 (figure 9B, C), 94 (cited for Ecuador).

Type specimens.

Deltochilum amazonicum Bates, 1887. The lectotype and four paralectotypes are deposited at the MNHN (ex coll. HW Bates, ex coll. R Oberthur) (see González-Alvarado and Vaz-de-Mello 2014: 450). Locality: Pebas Amazonas, examined.

LECTOTYPE, (♂): "Pebas / Amaz. [hw]", "Deltochilum / amazonicum / Bates ♂ major [hw]", "Ex Musæo / H.W. BATES / 1892 [p, black margin]", "R. PAULIAN / Vidit [p, black margin]", "LECTOTYPE [p, red label]", "Museum Paris / ex Coll. / R. Oberthur [p, green label, black margin]", "LECTOTYPE ♂ / Deltochilum / amazonicum / Bates / des. F.Z. Vaz-de-Mello. 2014 [p and hw, red label, black margin]".

Distribution.

Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

Records examined.

MORONA SANTIAGO: Bosque Domoso, 1650 (1 specimen CEMT; 6 specimens MQCAZ); Nuevo Israel, Cordillera del Kutukú, 1290 m (1 specimen MGO-UC); Untsuants, sitio 7, 900 m, Cordillera del Kutukú (8 specimens MQCAZ); road Mendez-Paute km 8 (1 specimen CEMT; 7 specimens MQCAZ). NAPO: cerca al Tena, 505 m, Pungarayacu (1 specimen MQCAZ); Estación Jatun Sacha, 450 m (19 specimens MQCAZ); Puerto Misahualli Jungle (6 specimens MQCAZ); Tena (4 specimens CEMT; 7 specimens MQCAZ). ORELLANA: Bloque 31, Parque Nacional Yasuní, 200 m (3 specimens MQCAZ); Cononaco, Bloque 16 YPF Parque Nacional Yasuní, 250 m (1 specimen MUTPL); Daimi, Pozo Daimi (5 specimens MQCAZ); Dayuma Campo Hormiguero, plataforma Hormiguero, 320 m (1 specimen MUTPL); Dayuma Campo Palanda-Yuca Sur, plataforma Yuca 13, 255 m (1 specimen MUTPL); Dayuma plataforma Ungurahua, 300 m (1 specimen MUTPL); El Dorado plataforma Guarango, 300 m (1 specimen MUTPL); Estación de Biodiversidad Tiputini USFQ, Río Tiputini, 270 m (1 specimen MGO-UC); Estación Científica Yasuní PUCE, 250 m (58 specimens MQCAZ); Lago San Pedro, plataforma Copal, 310 m (1 specimen MUTPL); Rodrigo Borja IAMOE (1 specimen CEMT; 9 specimens MQCAZ); San Sebastian del Coca, Comuna Guataraco, 345 m, Campo Pata (2 specimen MGO-UC); San Sebastian del Coca, Comuna Shamanal, 345 m, Campo Palo Azul (1 specimen MUTPL); Yampuna (2 specimens MQCAZ). PASTAZA: Bosque Protector Oglán Alto, 510 m (1 specimen MUTPL); Nuevo San José del Curaray, cercanias Río Villano, 245 m (1 specimen MGO-UC); San Virgilio (2 specimen MGO-UC). SUCUMBÍOS: 6 km de Dureno, 290 m, Precooperativa Los Vergeles (1 specimen MGO-UC); Nueva Loja plataforma Iguana, 310 m (1 specimen MUTPL); Pacayacu Campo Libertador, 260 m (1 specimen MUTPL); Shushufindi Campo Drago, 295 m (1 specimen MGO-UC); Tarapoa Campo Marian, plataforma Fanny 5, 260 m (1 specimen MUTPL); Tarapoa, Nuevo Manabí, 270 m (1 specimen MUTPL). TUNGURAHUA: Baños, El Topo, 1590 m (1 specimen MUTPL). ZAMORA CHINCHIPE: Tundayme, campamento Mirador, Valle del Quimi, 1000 m (1 specimen MUTPL); road Mendes-Paute km 8, 1250 m (4 specimens MQCAZ); road Zumbi-Yantzaza km 4, 900 m (1 specimen CEMT; 6 specimens MQCAZ); road Cumbaritza-Gualaquiza km 1, 1100 m (4 specimens MQCAZ).

Literature records.

FCO. DE ORELLANA [= ORELLANA]: Rodrigo Borja, IAMOE ( González and Vaz-de-Mello 2014: 451). MORONA SANTIAGO: Bosque Domono [= Bosque Domoso], 1650 m ( González and Vaz-de-Mello 2014: 451); Via Mendez-Paute km 8, 1250 m ( González and Vaz-de-Mello 2014: 451). NAPO: Tena ( González and Vaz-de-Mello 2014: 451); Jatun, Sacha Biol. Station, 21 km E Puerto Napo, 400 m ( González and Vaz-de-Mello 2014: 451); 3.3 km E Puerto Napo, 400 m ( González and Vaz-de-Mello 2014: 451). PASTAZA: 9 km ESE Veracruz, 900 m ( González and Vaz-de-Mello 2014: 451). ZAMORA CHINCHIPE: Via Zumbi-Yantzaza km 4, 900 m ( González and Vaz-de-Mello 2014: 451). UNDETERMINED PROVINCE: Dureno, 150 m ( González and Vaz-de-Mello 2014: 451).

Temporal data.

Collected every month of the year.

Remarks.

Inhabits the lowland evergreen forests, varzea forests, foothill evergreen forests, and lower evergreen montane forests of the Amazon region from 250-1590 m a.s.l. Collected with flight interception traps and pitfall traps baited with carrion and human feces.