Onthophagus (Onthophagus) stockwelli Howden & Young, 1981

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 : 192-193

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Onthophagus (Onthophagus) stockwelli Howden & Young, 1981
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Onthophagus (Onthophagus) stockwelli Howden & Young, 1981 View in CoL Plate 44A

Onthophagus stockwelli Howden & Young, 1981: 101 (original description. Type locality: Panama. Colón Prov., 270 m, 10 mi [= 16 km], SE Colón Santa Rita Ridge).

Onthophagus stockwelli : Kohlmann and Solís 2001: 167 (characters in key), 237 (redescription); Ratcliffe 2002: 17 (cited for Panama); Carvajal et al. 2011: 322-323 (cited for Ecuador); Krajcik 2012: 186 (complete list of species); Delgado and Curoe 2014: 66 (characters in key, cited for Panama); Rossini et al. 2018b: 9 (list of species from curvicornis complex).

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

Type specimens.

Onthophagus stockwelli Howden & Young, 1981. The holotype is deposited at the CMNC (ex coll. H Howden) (see Howden and Young 1981: 102). Locality: Panama. Colón Prov., 270 m, 10 mi, SE Colón Santa Rita Ridge, not examined.

Distribution.

Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Panama.

Records examined.

LOS RÍOS: Río Palenque Biológical Station, 250 m (5 specimens CEMT).

Literature records.

ESMERALDAS: 11 km SE San Lorenzo, La Chiquita, 5 m ( Howden and Young 1981: 103). MANABÍ: 73 km NE Chone, 90 km W Santo Domingo, 300 m ( Howden and Young 1981: 103). PICHINCHA: [= LOS RÍOS]: 47 km S Santo Domingo, Río Palenque Biológical Station ( Howden and Young 1981: 103).

Temporal data.

Collected in February, May, June, and July

Remarks.

Inhabits coastal lowland evergreen forests and coastal evergreen foothill forests from 5-300 m a.s.l. Collected with pitfall traps baited with human feces.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

Genus

Onthophagus