Ontherus (Caelontherus) brevicollis Kirsch, 1871

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 : 162

Ontherus (Caelontherus) brevicollis Kirsch, 1871

Ontherus brevicollis Kirsch, 1871: 340 (original description. Type locality: Bogotà).

Ontherus brevicollis : Harold 1880a: 23 (cited for Nueva Granada [= Colombia]); Gillet 1911a: 57 (complete list of species); Luederwaldt 1931a: 393 (characters in key); Blackwelder 1944: 206 (list of species for Latin America); Contreras 1951: 222 (cited for Colombia); Vulcano and Pereira 1967: 583 (characters in key); Medina et al. 2001: 138 (cited for Colombia); Krajcik 2012: 174 (complete list of species).

Ontherus (Caelontherus) brevicollis : Génier 1996: 31 (cited as new combination, redescription); Carvajal et al. 2011: 318-319 (cited for Ecuador); Chamorro et al. 2018: 96 (cited for Ecuador).

Type specimens.

Ontherus brevicollis Kirsch, 1871. The holotype (♀) is deposited at the SMTD (see Génier 1996: 32). Locality: Bogota, not examined.

Distribution.

Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela.

Literature records.

UNDETERMINED PROVINCE: without specific locality ( Génier 1996: 32).

Temporal data.

It is not known when this species was collected.

Remarks.

There are currently no records for this species in Ecuador. However, Génier (1996) cited this species from Pasto at the Nariño department in Colombia (located just across the border of Ecuador) so it is possible that part of its distribution includes northern Ecuador too.