Uroxys rugatus Boucumont, 1928

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 : 247

Uroxys rugatus Boucumont, 1928 Plate 54D

Uroxys rugatus Boucumont, 1928a: 188 (original description. Type locality: Uruguay).

Uroxys rugatus : Arrow 1933: 388 (characters in key, redescription), 389 (comment); Vulcano and Pereira 1967: 581 (characters in key); Carvajal et al. 2011: 318-319 (cited for Ecuador); Krajcik 2012: 262 (complete list of species); Chamorro et al. 2018: 99 (cited for Ecuador).

Uroxys rugata : Blackwelder 1944: 204 (list of species from Latin America).

Type specimens.

Uroxys rugatus Boucumont, 1928. Two syntypes examined deposited at the MNHN. Lectotype to be designated in a future work on this species group.

Distribution.

Ecuador and Peru.

Records examined.

LOJA: Amaluza, Angashcola, 2740 m (2 specimens CEMT); Loja (1 specimen CEMT); Cerro Villonaco, 2740 (2 specimens MUTPL); Cariamanga (2 specimens MQCAZ); Loja, 2600 m (1 specimen MQCAZ). ZAMORA CHINCHIPE: 15 km S de Jimbura, 3000 m (3 specimens CEMT).

Temporal data.

Collected in March and December.

Remarks.

Inhabits the evergreen high montane forests of the Andean region from 2600-3000 m a.s.l. Collected with pitfall traps baited with human feces. Arrow (1933) suggested that the type locality of this species, Uruguay, is erroneous. We did not find any other specimen of U. rugatus collected in Uruguay in the scientific collections from that country.