Dichotomius (Dichotomius) provisorius (Luederwaldt, 1925)

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 : 117-118

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.826.26488

publication LSID

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scientific name

Dichotomius (Dichotomius) provisorius (Luederwaldt, 1925)
status

 

Dichotomius (Dichotomius) provisorius (Luederwaldt, 1925) View in CoL Plate 26D

Pinotus provisorius Luederwaldt, 1925: 67 (original description. Type locality: Ecuador).

Pinotus provisorius : Luederwaldt 1929: 37 (characters in key); Blackwelder 1944: 207 (list of species from Latin America).

Dichotomius provisorius : Carvajal et al. 2011: 320-321 (cited for Ecuador); Krajcik 2012: 92 (complete list of species).

Dichotomius (Dichotomius) provisorius : Chamorro et al. 2018: 94 (cited for Ecuador).

Type specimens.

Pinotus provisorius Luederwaldt, 1925. Two syntypes examined deposited at the MZUSP. Lectotype to be designated in a future work on this species group.

Syntype (♀): "Loja [hw]", "bengder. / F. Ohaus lg. [hw]", "Pinotus ♀ / provisorius Lüd. / Lüeder. det. 25. [hw]", "17246 [p]", "♀ [hw]", "COTIPO [p, black margin, purple label]".

Syntype (♀): "O.ECUADOR / Macas Feyer [p]", "Pinotus ♀ / provisorius Lüd. / Lüeder. det. 24. [hw]", "17247 [p]", "♀ [hw]", "COTIPO [p, black margin, purple label]".

Distribution.

Only known from Ecuador.

Records examined.

LOJA: without specific locality (1 specimen MZUSP). MORONA SANTIAGO: Macas: (1 specimen MZUSP).

Temporal data.

It is not known when this species was collected.

Remarks.

Inhabits the evergreen foothill forests of the Amazon region. The collection method is unknown.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

Genus

Dichotomius