Scybalocanthon kaestneri (Balthasar, 1939)

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 : 224

Scybalocanthon kaestneri (Balthasar, 1939) Plate 49D

Canthon kaestneri Balthasar, 1939d: 227 (original description. Type locality: Ecuador).

Canthon kaestneri : Blackwelder 1944: 199 (list of species of Latin America); Pereira and Martínez 1956a: 114 (comment); Vulcano and Pereira 1964: 616 (cited for Ecuador); Carvajal et al. 2011: 314-315 (cited for Ecuador); Krajcik 2012: 63 (complete list of species).

Scybalocanthon kastneri : Halffter and Martínez 1977: 68 (cited as S. kastneri (Balthasar), list of species); Carvajal et al. 2011: 314-315 (cited for Ecuador); Bezdek and Hajek 2011: 363 (catalog of types NMPC); Chamorro et al. 2018: 87 (figure 10B), 98 (cited for Ecuador).

Type specimens.

Canthon kaestneri Balthasar, 1939. Two syntypes examined deposited at the NMPC. Lectotype to be designated in a future work on this species group.

Syntype (♀): "Ecuador [hw]", "Typus [p, red label, black margin]", "kästneri m. [hw, green label, black margin]", "Scybalocanthon / kaestneri (Balth.) / Det. B.D. Gill‘ 96 [p, blak margin]".

Syntype (♀): "Mera / Ecuador [p]", "Typus [p, red label, black margin]".

Distribution.

Only known from Ecuador.

Records examined.

MORONA SANTIAGO: 1 specimen, Bosque Domoso, 1650 m (CEMT); Comunidad Ángel Rouby, 1300 m, Cordillera del Kutukú (3 specimens MECN; 26 specimens MQCAZ); Comunidad Unsuants, 900-1100 m, Cordillera del Kutukú (4 specimens MECN; 12 specimens MQCAZ). NAPO: Puerto Napo, 480 m (2 specimens MQCAZ). PASTAZA: Bosque Protector Oglán Alto, 810 m (1 specimen CEMT; 1 specimen MUTPL); Mera (1 specimen NMPC); Mera, Estación Pindo Mirador UTE, 1000 m (9 specimens CEMT). UNDETERMINED PROVINCE: without specific locality (1 specimen NMPC).

Temporal data.

Collected in January, February, May, June, August, October, and December.

Remarks.

Inhabits the evergreen foothill forests of the Amazon region from 810-1300 m a.s.l. Collected with pitfall traps baited with carrion and human feces.