A new species and distribution records of Dichotomius Hope, 1838 (Coleoptera Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) in Colombia Author Chamorro, William Carrera 3 no. 25 - 32. Villa Recreo, San Juan de Pasto, Nariño, Colombia. Author Lopera-Toro, Alejandro 0000-0001-5097-1655 Investigador Asociado Fundación Ecotrópico Colombia y Grupo de Investigación Sistemática Biológica, Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, Av. Central del Norte 39 - 115, Tunja, Boyacá, Colombia. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5097 - 1655 Finnish Museum of Natural History “ Luonnontieteellinen keskusmuseo (LUOMUS) ”, University of Helsinki, Pohjoinen Rautatiekatu 13, Helsinki, 00014, Finland. micros. naturae @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 1938 - 6105 Author Rossini, Michele 0000-0002-1938-6105 micros.naturae@gmail.com text Zootaxa 2021 2021-03-12 4942 2 193 206 journal article 7605 10.11646/zootaxa.4942.2.3 cebb6e47-b2e0-45bb-85d2-e73b7fae63a7 1175-5326 4600445 0F533688-AB41-47D1-95A3-AF0B501A9D26 Dichotomius ( Dichotomius ) podalirius ( Felsche, 1901 ) ( Figs. 3 D–E, 4A–B) Pinotus podalirius Felsche, 1901: 137 (original description). Type locality: Ecuador . Type series. One syntype deposited at Senckenberg Museum f̹r Tierkunde of Dresden , Germany (sex unknown) (Chamorro e t al. 2019a: 118) . Remarks. According to Sarmiento-Garcés & Amat-García (2014) this species has a length of 20–32 mm . In the reviewed material for the species ( n = 30), no individual was greater than 22 mm . We consider that the description length for this species is incorrect and the largest individual does not exceed 23 mm . It is distributed in Colombia : Amazonas, Caquetá , Guaviare , Meta , Nariño , and Vaupés departments ( Medina et al. 2001: 138 ; Sarmiento-Garcés & Amat-García 2014: 41 ); and Ecuador : Napo , Orellana , Sucumbíos , and Zamora Chinchipe provinces ( Chamorro et al. 2019a: 117 ).