Onthophagus (Onthophagus) embrikianus Paulian, 1936

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 : 185

Onthophagus (Onthophagus) embrikianus Paulian, 1936 Plate 41C

Onthophagus embrikianus Paulian, 1936b: 507 (original description. Type locality: Colombie et d’Equateur [= Colombia and Ecuador]).

Onthophagus embrikianus : Vulcano and Pereira 1967: 564 (characters in key); Zunino and Halffter 1997: 161 (list of species); Medina et al. 2001: 139 (cited for Colombia); Pulido-Herrera and Zunino 2007: 103 (catalog of species, distribution); Carvajal et al. 2011: 322-323 (cited for Ecuador); Krajcik 2012: 178 (complete list of species); Rossini et al. 2018b: 10 (comment).

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

Type specimens.

Onthophagus embrikianus Paulian, 1936. Two syntypes examined deposited in MNHN. Lectotype to be designated in a future work on this species group.

Distribution.

Colombia and Ecuador.

Records examined.

GUAYAS: Bucay (2 specimens MNHN).

Literature records.

PICHINCHA: without specific locality ( Pulido-Herrera and Zunino 2007: 103).

Temporal data.

It is not known when this species was collected.

Remarks.

Inhabits coastal lowland evergreen forests. There are no other records of this species in the collections visited by the authors. The collection method is unknown.