Coprophanaeus (Coprophanaeus) telamon (Erichson, 1847)

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Coprophanaeus (Coprophanaeus) telamon (Erichson, 1847) Plate 17B

Phanaeus telamon Erichson, 1847: 106 (original description, without type locality).

Phanaeus telamon : Gemminger and Harold 1869: 1019 (list, distribution, written as C. Telamon Erichs); Kirsch 1873: 341 (cited for Peru, written as C. Telamon Erichs); Bates 1887: 56 (diagnosis); Nevinson 1892: 7 (list of species for the genus Phanaeus Macleay, 1819, written as C. Telamon Erichson); Gillet 1911a: 86 (complete list of species, written as C. Telamon Er); d’ Olsoufieff 1924: 26 (characters in key), 68 (distribution); Balthasar 1941: 350 (cited for Peru); Blackwelder 1944: 210 (list of species for Latin America); Balthasar 1951: 336 (cited for Peru); Pereira 1953: 391 (catalog of species).

Phanaeus (Coprophanaeus) telamon : Pessôa 1934: 296 (characters in key); 299 (redescription); Martínez 1947: 114 (cited); Vulcano and Pereira 1967: 572 (characters in key).

Coprophanaeus (Coprophanaeus) telamon var. telamon : Pereira and Martínez 1956b: 233 (cited as new combination); Arnaud 2002a: 35 (redescription); Hamel-Leigue et al. 2006: 17 (cited for Bolivia); Carvajal et al. 2011: 320-321 (cited for Ecuador); Ratcliffe et al. 2015: 197 (cited for Peru).

Coprophanaeus telamon : Vitolo 2000: 599 (characters in key); Medina et al. 2001: 140 (cited for Colombia); Vitolo 2004: 290 (redescription); Krajcik 2012: 204 (complete list of species, cited as species of the genus Phanaeus Macleay, 1819).

Coprophanaeus (Coprophanaeus) telamon : Vaz-de-Mello 2000: 192 (cited for Brazil); Edmonds and Zídek 2010: 77 (characters in key); 91 (cited as recombination, redescription); Cupello and Vaz-de-Mello 2013a: 367 (distribution); Figueroa et al. 2014: 127 (distribution of records for Peru); Chamorro et al. 2018: 93 (cited for Ecuador).

Type specimens.

Phanaeus telamon Erichson, 1847. The holotype (♂) is deposited in the SMTD (see Edmonds and Zídek 2010: 91). Locality: without specific locality, not examined.

Distribution.

Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.

Records examined.

MORONA SANTIAGO: Comunidad Untsuants, 700 m, Cordillera del Kutukú (21 specimens MECN); Nuevo Israel, Cordillera del Kutukú (1 specimen MUTPL); km 8 road Mendez-Paute, 1250 m (1 specimen CEMT). NAPO: La Merced de Jondachi Río Jondachi, 1100 m (1 specimen MUTPL); Pacto Sumaco, Cotundo, 1500 m (1 specimen MUTPL); Shiqui cerca al Tena, 485 m, Pungarayacu (1 specimen MQCAZ); Tena, 400 m (15 specimens CEMT). ORELLANA: Bloque 16, Parque Nacional Yasuní (1 specimen MUTPL); Bloque 31, Parque Nacional Yasuní, 210 m (3 specimens MECN); Dayuma Campo Hormiguero, plataforma Hormiguero, 320 m (2 specimens MUTPL); Dayuma Campo Palanda, LLumpac, 295 m (1 specimen MGO-UC); Dayuma, Campo Palanda Yuca 13, 255 m (1 specimen MGO-UC); Dayuma plataforma Ungurahua, 300 m (1 specimens MUTPL); Eden Yuturí Bloque 15, 225 m (1 specimen MUTPL); Estación Biológica Yasuní, 215 m (3 specimens MQCAZ); Estación de Biodiversidad Tiputini Torre, 220 m, Parque Nacional Yasuni (3 specicmen MUTPL); Rodrigo Borja IAMOE (7 specimens CEMT; 19 specimens MECN); San Sebastian del Coca, 345 m, Comuna Guataraco Campo Pata (2 specimens MUTPL). PASTAZA: Bosque Protector Oglán Alto, 660-810 m (2 specimens MUTPL); Nuevo San Jose del Curaray, 245 m (1 specimen MUTPL); Mera Estación Pindo Mirador UTE, 1000 m (4 specimens CEMT). SUCUMBÍOS: Aucayacu Río El Eno, 16 km de Lago Agrio, 290 m (1 specimen MUTPL); Bermejo plataforma ER-A road to Lumbaqui (1 specimen MUTPL); Laguna Grande de Cuyabeno, 250 m, Reserva de Producción Faunística Cuyabeno (10 specimens MECN); Pacayacu Campo Libertador, 260 m (2 specimens MUTPL); Sacha, 270 m (1 specimen MUTPL); Sansahuari, 255-290 m, Pozo Singüe (1 specimen MUTPL); Tarapoa plataforma Fanny 18B60, 245 m (1 specimen MUTPL); Tarapoa, Nuevo Manabí, 270 m (1 specimen MUTPL). ZAMORA CHINCHIPE: Tundayme, 800 m (2 specimens MUTPL); Tundayme, campamento Mirador, Tambo 3, 1055 m (1 specimen MUTPL); Zurmi, Comunidad La Wants, 1010 m (2 specimens MGO-UC; 1 specimen MEPN).

Literature records.

MORONA SANTIAGO: Untsuants, Cordillera de Cutucú [= Kutukú], 600 m ( Edmonds and Zídek 2010: 92). NAPO: 0.6 km E Río Arajuno, 380 m ( Edmonds and Zídek 2010: 93); 3.3 km E Puerto Napo ( Edmonds and Zídek 2010: 92); 12 km WSW Tena, 600 m ( Edmonds and Zídek 2010: 92); 20 km S Tena ( Edmonds and Zídek 2010: 92); 21 km E Puerto Napo, Jatun Sacha Biological Station ( Edmonds and Zídek 2010: 92); 24.5 km E Ahuano ( Edmonds and Zídek 2010: 93); 29 km E, 1.5 km N San Pedro de Arajuno, 360 m ( Edmonds and Zídek 2010: 93); Aliñahui, 24 km E Atahualpa ( Edmonds and Zídek 2010: 93); Archidona ( Edmonds and Zídek 2010: 93); Ávila ( Pereira and Martínez 1956b: 234); Talag Pimpilata, 750 m ( Edmonds and Zídek 2010: 92); Tena, 400 m ( Edmonds and Zídek 2010: 92). ORELLANA: Daimi ( Edmonds and Zídek 2010: 93); Payamino Research Station, 400 m ( Edmonds and Zídek 2010: 93); Puerto Franciso de Orellana [= El Coca] ( Edmonds and Zídek 2010: 92); Tiputini Biological Station, 220 m ( Edmonds and Zídek 2010: 93); Yampuna ( Edmonds and Zídek 2010: 93); Yasuní Biological Station, 215 m ( Edmonds and Zídek 2010: 92). PASTAZA: 22 km SE Puyo ( Edmonds and Zídek 2010: 93); Llandia, 17 km N Puyo, 1000 m ( Edmonds and Zídek 2010: 93); Puyo, 940 m ( Edmonds and Zídek 2010: 93). SUCUMBÍOS: 2 km N Limoncocha, 250 m ( Edmonds and Zídek 2010: 93); Dureno, Río Aguarico ( Edmonds and Zídek 2010: 92); Lago Agrio, 200 m ( Edmonds and Zídek 2010: 93); Limoncocha, 250 m ( Edmonds and Zídek 2010: 93). TUNGURAHUA: Baños ( Edmonds and Zídek 2010: 93); Río Negro ( Edmonds and Zídek 2010: 93).

Temporal data.

Collected in collected every month of the year.

Remarks.

Inhabits the lowland evergreen forests, varzea forests, the foothill evergreen forests and lower evergreen montane forests in the Amazonian range from 200-1500 m a.s.l. Species was collected with flight interception traps and pitfall traps baited with carrion and human feces.