Homocopris achamas (Harold, 1867)

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 : 153-155

Homocopris achamas (Harold, 1867) Plate 33B

Pinotus achamas Harold, 1867e: 99 (original description. Type locality: Columbia).

Pinotus achamas : Harold 1869c: 130 (redescription, written as Pinotus Achamas ); Gemminger and Harold 1869: 1009 (complete list of species, written as Pinotus Achamas ); Harold 1880a: 24 (distribution, written as Pinotus Achamas ); Gillet 1911a: 59 (complete list of species, written as Pinotus Achamas ); Luederwaldt 1929: 32 (characters in key, written as Pinotus Achamas ); Blackwelder 1944: 206 (list of species from Latin America); Contreras 1951: 222 (cited for Colombia).

Pinotus (Pinotus) achamas : Luederwaldt 1936: 207 (redescription).

Dichotomius achamas : Medina et al. 2001: 138 (cited for Colombia); Carvajal et al. 2011: 320-321 (cited for Ecuador); Krajcik 2012: 91 (complete list of species).

Homocopris achamas : Vaz-de-Mello et al. 2010: 192 (cited as new combination, comment); Chamorro et al. 2018: 90 (figure 13G), 96 (cited for Ecuador).

Type specimens.

Pinotus achamas Harold, 1867. One syntype examined deposited at the MNHN. Lectotype to be designated in a future work on this species group.

Distribution.

Colombia and Ecuador.

Records examined.

CARCHI: El Angel (1 specimen MQCAZ); Guanderas Estación Cientifica Jatun Sacha, 3280 m (1 specimen CEMT); Mariscal Sucre, La Bretaña (1 specimen MEPN). CHIMBORAZO: Riobamba, 2755 m (1 specimen MQCAZ).

Temporal data.

Collected in June and December.

Remarks.

Inhabits evergreen high montane forests of the Andean region from 2150-3100 m a.s.l. Collected at light and manually.