Scybalocanthon maculatus (Schmidt, 1920)

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 : 224-226

Scybalocanthon maculatus (Schmidt, 1920) Plate 50A

Canthon maculatus Schmidt, 1920: 127 (original description. Type locality: Sante Jnéz [= Santa Inés], Ecuador).

Canthon maculatus : Schmidt 1922: 77 (distribution); Balthasar 1939d: 193 (characters in key); Carvajal et al. 2011: 314-315 (cited for Ecuador); Krajcik 2012: 64 (complete list of species).

Canthon maculatum : Blackwelder 1944: 200 (list of species from Latin America).

Scybalocanthon maculatus : Pereira and Martínez 1956a: 115 (characters in key), 119 (cited as n. comb.); Vulcano and Pereira 1964: 638 (catalog of species); Vulcano and Pereira 1967: 555 (catalog of species); Halffter and Martínez 1977: 68 (cited as S. macultatus (Schmidt), list of species); Carvajal et al. 2011: 316-317 (cited for Ecuador); Chamorro et al. 2018: 98 (cited for Ecuador); Vaz-de-Mello and Cupello 2018b: 45 (cited for Ecuador), 46 (figure 29).

Type specimens.

Canthon maculatus Schmidt, 1920. Thirteen syntypes examined deposited at the NMHU, ZMHB, and SMTD (see Vaz-de-Mello and Cupello 2018b: 45-47). Lectotype to be designated in a future work on this species group.

Syntype (♂): "Santa Jnéz / (Ecuad.) / R.Haensch S. [p, black margin]", "Typus [p, red label, black margin]", "maculatus / Type m. [hw]", "Typ. [p]", "9846 / E92 + [p, red label]".

Syntype (♂): "Santa Jnéz / (Ecuad.) / R.Haensch S. [p, black margin]", "9843 / E92 + [p, red label]", "Scybalocanhton / maculatus (Schm) / P. Pereira det. 60 [p and hw, black margin]".

Syntype (♂): "Santa Jnéz / (Ecuad.) / R.Haensch S. [p, black margin]", "9842 / E92 + [p, red label]", "Scybalocanhton / maculatus (Schm) / P. Pereira det. 60 [p and hw, black margin]".

Syntype (♀): "Santa Jnéz / (Ecuad.) / R.Haensch S. [p, black margin]", "9842 / E92 + [p, red label]".

Syntype (♀): "Santa Jnéz / (Ecuad.) / R.Haensch S. [p, black margin]", "9844 / E92 + [p, red label]", "26 / 56 [p and hw, pink label]".

Syntype (♂): "Santa Jnéz / (Ecuad.) / R.Haensch S. [p, black margin]", "[one face, p] 106947 [oposite face, hw] 106947".

Syntype (♂): "Ecuador / Baron [p]", "Coll. C. Felsche / Kauf 20, 1918 [p, green label, black margin]".

Syntype (♂): "Santa Jnéz / (Ecuad.) / R.Haensch S. [p, black margin]", "Coll. C. Felsche / Kauf 20, 1918 [p, green label, black margin]".

Syntype (♀): "Santa Jnéz / (Ecuad.) / R.Haensch S. [p, black margin]", "106947 [hw]", "Canthon / maculatus / n. sp. a. Schmidt [hw]".

Syntype (♂): "Ecuador / 5255 [hw, green label]", "Canthon / maculatus / n. sp. a. Schmidt [hw]".

Syntype (♀): "Santa Jnéz / (Ecuad.) / R.Haensch S. [p, black margin]", "Coll. C. Felsche / Kauf 20, 1918 [p, green label, black margin]".

Syntype (♀): "Ecuador / Baron [p]", "Coll. C. Felsche / Kauf 20, 1918 [p, green label, black margin]".

Syntype (♀): "Santa Jnéz / (Ecuad.) / R.Haensch S. [p, black margin]", "Coll. C. Felsche / Kauf 20, 1918 [p, green label, black margin]", "Canthon / maculatus / n. sp. a. Schmidt [hw]", "Typus [p, red label]".

Distribution.

Only known from Ecuador.

Records examined.

NAPO: Cosanga Río Cosanga, 2000 m (1 specimen MQCAZ); El Salado, Rio Malo, 1315 m (1 specimen MQCAZ); Los Guacamayos Piviyacu, 1800 m (1 specimen CEMT); Pacto Sumaco, 1620 m (4 specimens MUTPL); Río Hollín, 1100 m (3 specimens CEMT); Río Jondachi, La Merced de Jondachi, 1175 m (3 specimens CEMT); San Rafael (1 specimen MQCAZ); road Hollín-Loreto km 7 (1 specimen MQCAZ). PASTAZA: Mera, Estación Pindo Mirador UTE, 1000 m (2 specimens CEMT). TUNGURAHUA: 4.3 km E de Río Negro, 1200 m (2 specimens CEMT); Baños El Topo, 1590 m (20 specimens CEMT). SUCUMBÍOS: El Reventador (1 specimen MQCAZ); Gonzalo Pizarro, Simon Bolivar, 1200 m (4 specimens MECN); Lumbaqui (1 specimen MQCAZ). UNDETERMINED PROVINCE: Santa Inés (5 specimens NMRS; 3 specimens SMTD; 2 specimens ZMHB); without specific locality (3 specimens SMTD).

Literature records.

UNDETERMINED PROVINCE: Santa Inez ( Vaz-de-Mello and Cupello 2018b: 45-46); without specific locality ( Vaz-de-Mello and Cupello 2018b: 47).

Temporal data.

Collected in January, May, April, June, August, and December.

Remarks.

Inhabits the evergreen foothill forests and evergreen lower montane forests across the Amazonian range from 1000-1800 m a.s.l. Collected with pitfall traps baited with human feces.