Streblopus punctatus (Balthasar, 1938)

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 : 230

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.826.26488

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B1550A3A-E547-4450-9A44-BC4366D5E110

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/DAC63C5F-C567-5C74-E286-A042E918E8A2

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scientific name

Streblopus punctatus (Balthasar, 1938)
status

 

Streblopus punctatus (Balthasar, 1938) View in CoL Plate 50D

Streblopoides punctatus Balthasar, 1938: 216 (original description. Type locality: Nord-Peru, Huancabamba, 3000 m).

Streblopoides punctatus : Balthasar 1941: 346 (cited for Peru); Vulcano and Pereira 1964: 580 (catalog of species); Balthasar 1951: 331 (cited for Peru).

Streblopoides punctata : Blackwelder 1944: 203 (list of species from Latin America).

Streblopus punctatus : Halffter and Martínez 1966: 162 (cited as new combination, redescription); Carvajal et al. 2011: 316-317 (cited for Ecuador); Bezdek and Hajek 2011: 374 (catalog of the types of the NMPC); Carvajal 2012: 196 (redescription), 197 (distribution); Krajcik 2012: 249 (complete list of species); Ratcliffe et al. 2015: 196 (cited for Peru); Chamorro et al. 2018: 85 (figure 8C), 98 (cited for Ecuador).

Type specimens.

Streblopoides punctatus Balthasar, 1938. The holotype is deposited at the NMPC (ex coll. V. Balthasar). Locality: Huancabamba, N Peru, 3000 m, examined.

Holotype (♀): "Huancabamba / N. Peru, 3000m / H. Rolle [p]", "Typus [p, red label, black margin]", "Genotyp / Str. punctatus / n.sp. / Dr. V. Balthasar det. [p and hw]", "punctatus / m. [hw, green label]".

Distribution.

Ecuador and Peru.

Records examined.

ZAMORA CHINCHIPE: RVS El Zarza conseción Zarza, Cordillera del Cóndor, 1555 m (3 specimens CEMT; 2 specimens MUTPL); RVS El Zarza conseción Colibrí, Cordillera del Cóndor, 1445 m (1 specimen MEPN); Yantzatza T3, 1435 m (2 specimens CEMT); Zurmi Comunidad Miazi, 1380 m (1 specimen MEPN; 1 specimen MUTPL).

Temporal data.

Collected in January, September, November, and December.

Remarks.

Inhabits the evergreen lower montane forests across the Amazonian range from 1380-1555 m a.s.l. Collected with pitfall traps baited with human feces.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

Genus

Streblopus