Dichotomius (Dichotomius) podalirius (Felsche, 1901)

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 : 114

Dichotomius (Dichotomius) podalirius (Felsche, 1901) Plate 26A

Pinotus podalirius Felsche, 1901: 137 (original description. Type locality: Ecuador).

Pinotus podalirius : Gillet 1911a: 61 (complete list of species, cited as Dichotomius Podalirius Felche); Luederwaldt 1929: 27 (characters in key), 29 (redescription); Blackwelder 1944: 207 (list of species from Latin America).

Dichotomius podalirius : Vulcano and Pereira 1967: 585 (characters in key); Martínez and Martínez 1982: 3 (comment); Medina et al. 2001: 138 (cited for Colombia); Sarmiento-Garcés and Amat-García 2009: 288 (diagnosis), 294 (characters in key); Carvajal et al. 2011: 320-321 (cited for Ecuador); Krajcik 2012: 91 (complete list of species); Sarmiento-Garcés and Amat-García 2014: 41 (characters in key), 46 (diagnosis).

Dichotomius (Dichotomius) podalirius : Chamorro et al. 2018: 89 (figure 12G), 94 (cited for Ecuador).

Type specimens.

Pinotus podalirius Felsche, 1901. One syntypes examined deposited at the SMTD. Lectotype to be designated in a future work on this species group.

Syntype (♂): "Ecuador / Baron [p]", "Coll. C. Felsche / Kauf 20, 1918 [p, green label, black margin]", "Staatl. Museum für / Tierkunde D esden [p]".

Distribution.

Brazil, Colombia, and Ecuador.

Records examined.

NAPO: Bloque 20, Pungarayacu, 610 m (1 specimen MUTPL); Estación Biológica Jatun Sacha, 400 m, 21 km E de Puerto Napo (4 specimens MECN); Tena (1 specimen CEMT). ORELLANA: Cononaco, Bloque 16 YPF, Parque Nacional Yasuní, 250 m (2 specimens MUTPL); Dayuma, Campo Palanda plataforma Pindo 14, 255 m (1 specimen MUTPL); Dayuma plataforma Ungurahua, 300 m (1 specimen MUTPL); El Dorado plataforma Guarango, 300 m (1 specimen MUTPL); Estación Científica Yasuní PUCE, 200 m (6 specimens CEMT; 18 specimens MQCAZ); Estación de Biodiversidad Tiputini, 285 m, Parque Nacional Yasuni (2 specimens MUTPL); Rodrigo Borja IAMOE (1 specimen CEMT; 5 specimens MQCAZ); San Sebastian del Coca, 345 m, Comuna Guataraco Campo Pata (1 specimen MUTPL). PASTAZA: Bosque Protector Oglán Alto, 555-950 m (1 specimen MUTPL); Nuevo San Jose del Curaray, 245 m (1 specimen MUTPL); Ñemenguno, 280 m (1 specimen MUTPL); San Virgilio (1 specimen MUTPL); Villano (1 specimen CEMT; 3 specimens MQCAZ). SUCUMBÍOS: 6 km de Dureno, Precooperativa Los Vergeles, 290 m (1 specimen MGO-UC); km 10 Trocha Zabalo-Guepi, 220 m, Reserva de Producción Faunística Cuyabeno (1 specimen MUTPL); Bermejo plataforma ER-A road to Lumbaqui (1 specimen MUTPL); Lago Agrio (3 specimens MECN); Nueva Loja, plataforma Iguana, 310 m (1 specimen MUTPL); Pacayacu Campo Libertador, 260 m (3 specimens MUTPL); Sansahuari, 290 m, Pozo Singüe (1 specimen MUTPL); Tarapoa Campo Marian, plataforma Fanny 5, 260 m (1 specimen MUTPL); Tarapoa, Nuevo Manabí, 270 m (1 specimen MUTPL); Tipirishca (2 specimen MECN). ZAMORA CHINCHIPE: Tundayme campamento, 800 m (1 specimen MUTPL); Tundayme, campamento Mirador, San Marcos, 900 m (1 specimen MUTPL); Zurmi, Comunidad La Wants, 1010 m (3 specimens MUTPL); Zurmi Las Orquideas Río Nangaritza, 870 m (1 specimen MUTPL). UNDETERMINED PROVINCE: without specific locality (1 specimen SMTD).

Temporal data.

Collected every month of the year.

Remarks.

Inhabits the lowland evergreen forests and the foothill evergreen forests of the Amazon region from 220-1010 m a.s.l. Collected with pitfall traps baited with carrion and human feces.