Ontherus (Caelontherus) aequatorius Bates, 1891

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 : 160-162

Ontherus (Caelontherus) aequatorius Bates, 1891 Plate 35B

Ontherus aequatorius Bates, 1891: 25 (original description. Type locality: Ecuador, probably Pacific slopes).

Ontherus aequatorius : Gillet 1911a: 57 (complete list of species); Campos 1921: 56 (cited for Ecuador); Luederwaldt 1931a: 400 (characters in key); Blackwelder 1944: 206 (list of species from Latin America); Krajcik 2012: 174 (complete list of species).

Ontherus (Caelontherus) aequatorius : Génier 1996: 10 (characters in key), 34 (redescription); Carvajal et al. 2011: 318-319 (cited for Ecuador); Chamorro et al. 2018: 96 (cited for Ecuador).

Type specimens.

Ontherus aequatorius Bates, 1891. The holotype (♂) is deposited at the MNHN (see Génier 1996: 35). Locality: Ecuador, not examined.

Distribution.

Ecuador and Peru.

Records examined.

UNDETERMINED PROVINCE: without specific locality (2 specimens CEMT).

Literature records.

AZUAY: 8 km NE Giron, 2600 m ( Génier 1996: 35); Tarqui ( Génier 1996: 35). CAÑAR: 5 km E Zhud, 3000 m ( Génier 1996: 35). CHIMBORAZO: Riobamba ( Génier 1996: 35). NAPO: 24 km NW de Baeza, 2400 m ( Génier 1996: 35). PICHINCHA: Gualea ( Génier 1996: 35). SUCUMBÍOS: Sebundoy ( Génier 1996: 35). UNDETERMINED PROVINCE: Pucay [= Bucay, Guyas] ( Génier 1996: 35); without specific locality, probably Pacific slopes ( Bates 1891: 25).

Temporal data.

Collected in March, April, June, July, and November.

Remarks.

Inhabits the montane cloud forests and the evergreen high montane forests of the Andean region from 2400-3000 m a.s.l.

Génier (1996), in his revision of the genus Ontherus , refers to the following two localities as uncertain specific locations: Sebundoy, located near Santa Bárbara in the Sucumbíos province, above 2300 m (mistaken by Génier Sibundoy at the Putumayo department in Colombia) and Pucay [= Bucay: Guayas] above 300 m, located along the Pacific coast of Ecuador. However, the distributional data for Pucay may be erroneous as the current distribution of O. aequatorius is limited to the Andean region.