Onthophagus (Onthophagus) sharpi Harold, 1875

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 : 190-192

Onthophagus (Onthophagus) sharpi Harold, 1875 Plate 43C

Onthophagus sharpi Harold, 1875d: 138 (original description. Without type locality).

Onthophagus sharpi : Gillet 1911a: 208 (catalog of species, cited as Onthophagus Sharpi Har.); Boucomont and Gillet 1927: 208 (catalog of species, cited as Onthophagus Sharpi Har.); Boucomont 1932: 300 (characters in key), 330 (distribution); Blackwelder 1944: 212 (list of species from Latin America); Halffter and Matthews 1966: 39 (cited for Panama); Howden and Young 1981: 97 (characters in key), 117 (redescription); Zunino and Halffter 1997: 165 (list of species); Kohlmann and Solís 2001: 166 (characters in key), 234 (redescrip tion); Medina et al. 2001: 140 (cited for Colombia); Ratcliffe 2002: 17 (cited for Panama); Morón 2003: 74 (cited for Mexico); Pulido-Herrera and Zunino 2007: 115 (catalog of species, distribution); Carvajal et al. 2011: 322-323 (cited for Ecuador); Krajcik 2012: 185 (complete list of species); Solís and Kohlmann 2012: 9 (cited for Costa Rica); Delgado and Curoe 2014: 66 (characters in key, cited for Panama).

Onthophagus (Onthophagus) sharpi : Chamorro et al. 2018: 97 (cited for Ecuador).

Type specimens.

Onthophagus sharpi Harold, 1875. The holotype is deposited at the MNHN (see Kohlmann and Solís 2001: 234). Locality: without specific locality, not examined.

Distribution.

Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, and Nicaragua.

Records examined.

PICHINCHA: Llurimaguas, Guayabilla Río Guayllabamba, 520 m (2 specimens CEMT); Tortugo Río Guayllabamba, 450 m (1 specimen CEMT).

Temporal data.

Collected in March and December.

Remarks.

Inhabits coastal lowland evergreen forests from 450-520 m a.s.l. Collected in aerial fruit traps.