Dichotomius (Dichotomius) quinquelobatus (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 : 119-121

Dichotomius (Dichotomius) quinquelobatus (Felsche, 1901) Plate 27B

Pinotus quinquelobatus Felsche, 1901: 138 (original description. Type locality: Ecuador).

Pinotus quinquelobatus : Gillet 1911a: 62 (complete list of species); Luederwaldt 1929: 35 (characters in key), 40 (redescription); Blackwelder 1944: 208 (list of species from Latin America); Contreras 1951: 222 (cited for Colombia).

Dichotomius quinquelobatus : Medina et al. 2001: 138 (cited for Colombia); Sarmiento-Garcés and Amat-García 2009: 289 (redescription), 295 (characters in key): Carvajal et al. 2011: 320-321 (cited for Ecuador); Krajcik 2012: 92 (complete list of species); Sarmiento-Garcés and Amat-García 2014: 52 (characters in key), 59 (diagnosis); Ratcliffe et al. 2015: 197 (cited for Peru).

Dichotomius (Dichotomius) quinquelobatus : Chamorro et al. 2018: 79 (figure 2D), 95 (cited for Ecuador).

Types specimens.

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

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

Distribution.

Colombia and Ecuador.

Records examined.

MORONA SANTIAGO: Bosque Domoso, 1650 m (1 specimen CEMT; 7 specimens MQCAZ); Comunidad Angel Rouby sitio 8, Cordillera del Kutukú, 1300 m (5 specimens MQCAZ; 4 specimens MECN); Comunidad Untsuants sitio 6, Cordillera del Kutukú, 1100 m (3 specimens MQCAZ; 2 specimens MECN); Macas (2 specimens MQCAZ); Yapitia, 1075 m (1 specimen MQCAZ). NAPO: Cotundo Río Osayacu sector Shamato, 1070 m (2 specimens MUTPL); Río Hollín, 1100 m (1 specimen CEMT; 4 specimens MQCAZ). PASTAZA: Bosque Protector Oglán Alto, 810-950 m (2 specimens MUTPL); LLandia 17 km N del Puyo, 1000 m (5 specimens MQCAZ); Mera Estación Biológica de la UTE Pindo Mirador, 1000 m (1 specimen MUTPL). SUCUMBÍOS: Bosque Protector la Cascada Río Coca, 640 m (1 specimen MUTPL); La Bonita, 1800 m (1 specimen CEMT); Lumbaqui, 860 m (2 specimens MQCAZ); road La Alegría-La Bonita km 32 (3 specimens MECN). ZAMORA CHINCHIPE: Bombuscaru, Parque Nacional Podocarpus (4 specimens MECN); Tundayme campamento Mirador, La Mina, 1320 m (1 specimen MUTPL); road Namirez-Zamora km 1, 1000 m (3 specimens CEMT; 4 specimens MQCAZ); Zurmi, Comunidad La Wants, 1010 m (1 specimen MEPN); Zurmi, Cumunidad Miazi, 1380 m (1 specimen MEPN; 1 specimen MUTPL). UNDETERMINED PROVINCE: without specific locality (1 specimen SMTD).

Temporal data.

Collected every month of the year.

Remarks.

Inhabits the foothill evergreen forests and lower evergreen montane forests in the Amazonian range from 640-1800 m a.s.l. Collected with pitfall traps baited with carrion, human feces, and pig feces.