Dichotomius (Dichotomius) longiceps (Taschenberg, 1870)

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 : 253-254

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.826.26488

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B1550A3A-E547-4450-9A44-BC4366D5E110

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0ED6E4E8-A742-AC35-86E9-96EE3EC61DB2

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scientific name

Dichotomius (Dichotomius) longiceps (Taschenberg, 1870)
status

 

Dichotomius (Dichotomius) longiceps (Taschenberg, 1870) View in CoL

Copris longiceps Taschenberg, 1870: 180 (original description. Type locality: Loja).

Remarks.

This species was recorded for Ecuador by the following authors: Gillet (1911a: 61) cited as Pinotus longiceps Taschb; Luederwaldt (1929: 18), distribution; Blackwelder (1944: 207) cited as Pinotus longiceps Tasch; Carvajal et al. (2011: 320- 321), list of species; Krajcik (2012: 91), list of species; Boilly (2015b: 83, figs 1, 2), cited for Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Guyane.

The record of Taschenberg (1870) is possibly incorrect with regards to the type locality. According to our data, there are no other records of this species in the collections listed.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

Genus

Dichotomius