Ontherus (Ontherus) appendiculatus (Mannerheim, 1829)

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 : 254

Ontherus (Ontherus) appendiculatus (Mannerheim, 1829)

Copris appendiculata Mannerheim, 1829: 43 (original description. Type locality: Tijuco [= Brazil, Paraná]).

Remarks.

This species was recorded for Ecuador by the following authors: Génier (1996: 81) reported this species in Ecuador Napo [= Napo River], but the author marked this locality with an asterisk (see Génier 1996: 7) to indicate that this records may be incomplete since it does not indicate the exact location along the Napo River; Carvajal et al. (2011: 318-319) quoting Génier (1996); Chamorro et al. (2018: 96) quoting Génier (1996). According to our data, there are no other records of this species in the collections listed.