Onthophagus (Onthophagus) lojanus Balthasar, 1939

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 : 186

Onthophagus (Onthophagus) lojanus Balthasar, 1939 Plate 42A

Onthophagus lojanus Balthasar, 1939h: 44 (original description. Type locality: Loja in den Ostkordillieren).

Onthophagus lojanus : Martínez 1947: 112 (distribution); Pulido-Herrera and Zunino 2007: 108 (catalog of species); Carvajal et al. 2011: 322-323 (cited for Ecuador); Krajcik 2012: 181 (complete list of species); Bezdek and Hajek 2013: 412 (catalog of the types of the NMPC).

Onthophagus (Onthophagus) lojanus : Chamorro et al. 2018: 97 (cited for Ecuador).

Type specimens.

Onthophagus lojanus Balthasar, 1939. Four syntypes examined deposited at the MSMF and NMPC. Lectotype to be designated in a future work on this species group.

Syntype (♂): "Loja Ostcordill. / Sabanilla / F. Ohs. 18.9.05 [p]", "Onthophagus / lojanus / n. sp. Typ. / Dr. V. Balthasar det. [p and hw]", "Senckenberg- / Museum / Frankfurt / Main [p]", "Typus [p, black margin]".

Syntype (♂): "Loja Ostcordill. / Sabanilla / F. Ohs. 1.10.05 [p]", "Onthophagus / lojanus n. sp. / Type / Dr. V. Balthasar det. [p and hw]", "Senckenberg- / Museum / Frankfurt / Main [p]", "Para- / typoid [p, red label, black margin]".

Syntype (♂): "Loja Ostcordill. / Sabanilla / Arsen 5.10.05 [p]", "P.G. 3344 / Canada balsam / M. Zunino 1980 [hw]", "TYPUS! [p, red label, black margin]", "Onthophagus / lojanus n. sp. / Dr. V. Balthasar det. [p and hw]", "Mus. Nat. Pragae / 26224/ Inv. [p and hw, orange label]", "lojanus / m. [hw, green label, black margin]".

Syntype (♀): "Loja Ostcordill. / Sabanilla / F. Ohs. 29.9.05 [p]", "P.G. 3343 / Canada balsam / M. Zunino 1980 [hw]", "TYPUS [p, red label, black margin]", "Onthophagus / lojanus n. sp. / Dr. V. Balthasar det. [p and hw]", "Mus. Nat. Pragae / 26223 / Inv. [p and hw, orange label]".

Distribution.

Only known from Ecuador.

Records examined.

LOJA [= ZAMORA CHINCHIPE]: Ostcordill Sabanilla [= currently El Tambo] (2 specimens NMPC; 2 specimens MSMF).

Temporal data.

It is not known when this species was collected.

Remarks.

It is possible that this species may be found in montane cloud forests on the Andean slopes. Balthasar (1939h) reported this species in Sabanilla which is a locality in Zamora Chinchipe province. The collection method is unknown.