Uroxys pauliani Balthasar, 1940

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 : 245-247

Uroxys pauliani Balthasar, 1940 Plate 54C

Uroxys pauliani Balthasar, 1940: 34 (original description. Type locality: Columbia, Pichinde).

Uroxys pauliani : Medina et al. 2001: 139 (cited for Colombia); Carvajal et al. 2011: 318-319 (cited for Ecuador); Bezdek and Hajek 2011: 359 (catalog of the types of the NMPC); Krajcik 2012: 262 (complete list of species); Solís and Kohlmann 2012: 5 (cited for Costa Rica); Solís and Kohlmann 2013: 291 (characters in key), 326 (redescription); Chamorro et al. 2018: 99 (cited for Ecuador).

Uroxys depressifrons Howden & Young, 1981: 55 (original description); Medina et al. 2001: 139 (cited for Colombia); Ratcliffe 2002: 15 (cited for Panama); Krajcik 2012: 262 (complete list of species); Solís and Kohlmann 2012: 5 (synonym of Uroxys pauliani Balthasar, 1940); Solís and Kohlmann 2013: 326 (cited as synonym of Uroxys pauliani Balthasar, 1940).

Type specimens.

Uroxys pauliani Balthasar, 1940. Three syntypes are deposited at the SMTD and NMPC. (ex coll. V Balthasar). Lectotype to be designated in a future work on this species group.

Uroxys depressifrons Howden & Young, 1981. The holotype (♂) is deposited at the CMNC (ex coll. H Howden) (see Howden and Young 1981: 56). Locality: Panama, Chiriqui Prov., 15 km NW Hato dl Volcan (not examined).

Distribution.

Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Panama

Records examined.

COTOPAXI: Bosque Integral Otonga, 2000 m (16 specimens CEMT). IMBABURA: Lita, 500 m (1 specimen CEMT).

Temporal data.

Collected in March and September.

Remarks.

Inhabits coastal evergreen foothill forests at 500 m a.s.l. In the Andean region, it was registered in the montane cloud forests at 2000 m a.s.l. Collected with pitfall traps baited with human feces.