Cryptocanthon paradoxus Balthasar, 1942

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 : 78

Cryptocanthon paradoxus Balthasar, 1942 Plate 18C

Cryptocanthon paradoxus Balthasar, 1942: 37 (original description. Type locality: Loja, Villonaco).

Cryptocanthon paradoxus : Vulcano and Pereira 1967: 551 (distribution); Howden 1973: 40 (characters in key, redescription); Cook 2002: 10 (characters in key), 78 (revision); Carvajal et al. 2011: 316-317 (cited for Ecuador); Bezdek and Hajek 2011: 366 (catalog of types NMPC); Krajcik 2012: 82 (complete list of species); Albuquerque et al. 2017 (cited for Peru); Chamorro et al. 2018: 93 (cited for Ecuador).

Type specimens.

Cryptocanthon paradoxus Balthasar, 1942. The holotype (♂) is deposited at the NMPC. Locality: Loja Villonaco, examined.

Holotype (♂): "(Ecuad.) [p]", "Loja Villonaco / F. Ohs. 23.8.05 [p]", "TYPUS [p, red label, black margin]", "Cryptocanthon / paradoxus / n. gen. n. sp. / mihi / Dr. V. Balthasar det. [p and hw]", "Cryptocanthon / paradoxus Balth. [hw, green label, black margin]".

Distribution.

Ecuador and Peru.

Records examined.

LOJA: Villonaco (1 specimen NMPC).

Temporal data.

Collected in August.

Remarks.

Inhabits the montane cloud forests of the Andean region at 2000 m a.s.l. The collection method is unknown.