Onthophagus (Onthophagus) curvicornis Latreille, 1811

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 : 180-182

Onthophagus (Onthophagus) curvicornis Latreille, 1811 Plate 40B

Onthophagus curvicornis Latreille, 1811: 220 (original description. Type locality: Quito).

Onthophagus curvicornis : Gemminger and Harold 1869: 1028 (catalog); Taschenberg 1870: 184 (distribution); Harold 1880a: 29 (redescription, distribution); Gillet 1911a: 205 (catalog); Campos 1921: 57 (cited for Ecuador); Boucomont and Gillet 1927: 205 (catalog of species); Boucomont 1932: 308 (characters in key), 323 (distribution); Blackwelder 1944: 211 (list of species from Latin America); Guêrin 1953: 262 (diagnosis); Roze 1955: 45 (cited for Venezuela); Vulcano and Pereira 1967: 565 (characters in key); Zunino and Halffter 1997: 161 (list of species); Medina et al. 2001: 139 (cited for Colombia); Morón 2003: 71 (cited for Mexico); Pulido-Herrera and Zunino 2007: 101 (catalog of species); Carvajal et al. 2011: 322-323 (cited for Ecuador); Krajcik 2012: 177 (complete list of species); Rossini et al. 2018b: 9 (list of species of the curvicornis complex).

Onthophagus (Onthophagus) curvicornis : Vaz-de-Mello 2000: 194 (cited for Brazil); Chamorro et al. 2018: 97 (cited for Ecuador).

Onthophagus minax Kirsch, 1866: 215 (original description); Gemminger and Harold 1869: 1028 (cited as synonym of Onthophagus curvicornis Latreille, 1811); Gillet 1911a: 205 (cited as synonym of Onthophagus curvicornis Latreille, 1811); Boucomont and Gillet 1927: 205 (cited as synonym of Onthophagus curvicornis Latreille, 1811); Blackwelder 1944: 211 (cited as synonym of Onthophagus curvicornis Latreille, 1811); Pulido-Herrera and Zunino 2007: 101 (cited as synonym of Onthophagus curvicornis Latreille, 1811).

Type specimens.

Onthophagus curvicornis Latreille, 1811. Type material not examined.

Onthophagus minax Kirsch, 1866. Type material not examined.

Distribution.

Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela.

Records examined.

CHIMBORAZO: 2 km S de Puela, 2315 m (3 specimens CEMT). COTOPAXI: Otonga, 2200 m (1 specimen CEMT). EL ORO: Piñas, 1200 m (3 specimens CEMT). LOJA: 5 km N of Zambi, 1300 m (1 specimen CEMT); 10 km N of Zambi, 1850 m (1 specimen CEMT); Gonzanama, 2000 m (1 specimen CEMT); Las Chinchas, 2100 m (3 specimens CEMT); Loja, Villonaco, 2600 m (2 specimens CEMT). PICHINCHA: Quito, Nayón, 2500 m (8 specimens MUTPL). TUNGURAHUA: 10 km SW Baños, 2880 m (1 specimen CEMT).

Literature records.

PICHINCHA: Quito ( Latreille 1811: 220; Pulido-Herrera and Zunino 2007: 101). LOJA: without specific locality ( Taschenberg 1870: 184).

Temporal data.

Collected in February, March, April, May, August, and December.

Remarks.

Inhabits the evergreen foothill forests in the Amazonian range at 1300 m a.s.l. In the Andean region, it was registered for the montane cloud forests and the high evergreen montane forests from 1850-2880 m a.s.l. Collected manually and in dog feces.