Scarabaeinae dung beetles from Ecuador: a catalog, nomenclatural acts, and distribution records
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Chamorro, William
Author
Marin-Armijos, Diego
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senjo, Angelico
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Vaz-De-Mello, Fernando Z.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.826.26488
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.826.26488
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Onthophagus
(Onthophagus) mirabilis Bates, 1887
Plate 42C
Onthophagus mirabilis
Bates, 1887: 74 (original description. Type locality: Ecuador,
Rio
Morona).
Onthophagus mirabilis
:
Gillet 1911a
: 207 (complete list of species);
Boucomont and Gillet 1927
: 207 (catalog of species);
Boucomont 1932
: 328 (distribution);
Blackwelder 1944
: 211 (list of species from Latin America);
Howden and Young 1981
: 96 (characters in key), 116 (redescription);
Howden and Gill 1993
: 1098 (characters in key, redescription);
Zunino and Halffter 1997
: 165 (list of species);
Genier
and Howden 1999
: 131 (characters in key), 134 (comment);
Medina et al. 2001
: 140 (cited for Colombia);
Genier
and Medina 2004
: 610 (description of the female), 611 (figure 1);
Pulido-Herrera and Zunino 2007
: 109 (catalog of species, distribution);
Carvajal et al. 2011
: 322-323 (cited for Ecuador);
Krajcik 2012
: 182 (complete list of species);
Ratcliffe et al. 2015
: 195 (cited for Peru);
Genier
2017
: 6 (characters in key, cited for Ecuador).
Onthophagus (Onthophagus) mirabilis
:
Chamorro et al. 2018
: 97 (cited for Ecuador).
Type specimens.
Onthophagus mirabilis
Bates, 1887. The holotype (♂) is deposited at the MNHN (ex coll. HW Bates) (see
Genier
and Howden 1999
: 134). Locality:
Rio
Morona, Ecuador, not examined.
Distribution.
Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama.
Records examined.
ZAMORA CHINCHIPE: Cordillera la Curintza, 1790 m (1 specimen CEMT); Tundayme, La Escombrera, 1225 m (2 specimens CEMT).
Literature records.
MORONA SANTIAGO:
Rio
Morona (
Bates 1887
: 74;
Genier
and Howden 1999
: 134).
Temporal data.
Collected in September and October.
Remarks.
Inhabits the foothill forests of the Amazon region at 1225 m a.s.l. In the Andean region, the species was recorded in the evergreen lower montane forest at 1790 m a.s.l. Collected with pitfall traps baited with human feces.
Genier
and Howden (1999)
reported that the specimen that was collected in
Rio
Morona was partially covered with spider webs.
Howden and Young (1981)
and
Genier
and Medina (2004)
reported that this species was collected using pitfall traps baited with carrion and feces, fruit traps, and flight interception traps.