Uroxys monstruosus Balthasar, 1940

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 : 245

Uroxys monstruosus Balthasar, 1940 Plate 54A

Uroxys monstruosus Balthasar, 1940: 34 (original description. Type locality: Ecuador).

Uroxys monstruosus : Vulcano and Pereira 1967: 580 (characters in key); Carvajal et al. 2011: 318-319 (cited for Ecuador); Bezdek and Hajek 2011: 359 (catalog of types NMPC); Krajcik 2012: 262 (complete list of species); Chamorro et al. 2018: 98 (cited for Ecuador).

Type specimens.

Uroxys monstruosus Balthasar, 1940. The holotype is deposited at the NMPC. Locality: Ecuador, without specific locality, examined.

Holotype (sex unknown): "Ecuador / Baron [p]", "Typus [p, red label, black margin]", "Uroxys / monstrosus / n. sp. m. / Dr. V. Balthasar det. [p and hw]", "monstrosus m. [hw, green label, black margin]", "HOLOTYPE [hw, red label]".

Distribution.

Only known from Ecuador.

Records examined.

BOLIVAR: Cashca Totoras (4 specimens MQCAZ). CAÑAR: La Carbonería, 2850 m (7 specimens CEMT). UNDETERMINED PROVINCE: without specific locality (1 specimen NMPC).

Temporal data.

Collected in January and December.

Remarks.

Inhabits the high montane forests of the Andean region at 2850 m a.s.l. The collection method is unknown.