Onthophagus (Onthophagus) clypeatus Blanchard, 1843

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 : 255

publication ID

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

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B1550A3A-E547-4450-9A44-BC4366D5E110

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Onthophagus (Onthophagus) clypeatus Blanchard, 1843
status

 

Onthophagus (Onthophagus) clypeatus Blanchard, 1843 View in CoL

Onthophagus clypeatus Blanchard, 1843: 182 (original description. Type locality: province of Santa-Cruz de la Sierra).

Remarks.

This species was recorded for Ecuador by the following authors: Boucomont (1932: 322) in the localities of Loja and Cordillère orientale Sabanilla; Pulido-Herrera and Zunino (2007: 99), catalog of species, distribution; Carvajal et al. (2011: 322-323) quoting Boucomont (1932).

It is possible that Boucomont (1932) refers to a different species also belonging to the clypeatus group. According to our data, there are no other records of this species in the collections listed.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

Genus

Onthophagus