Choeridium connexum
Choeridium connexum
Ateuchus connexus
Scarabaeinae dung beetles from Ecuador: a catalog, nomenclatural acts, and distribution records
Chamorro, William
Marin-Armijos, Diego
senjo, Angelico
Vaz-De-Mello, Fernando Z.
ZooKeys
2019
826
1
343
7ZLXF
Harold, 1868
Harold
1868
Insecta
Scarabaeidae
Ateuchus
CoL
Animalia
Ateuchus connexus
Coleoptera
10
11
Arthropoda
species
connexus
Choeridium connexumHarold, 1868a: 36 (characters in key), 55 (original description. Type locality: Ega [= Tefe]). Choeridium connexum: Gemminger and Harold 1869: 1007 (list, distribution); Gillet 1911a: 52 (list, distribution); Balthasar 1939a: 60 (characters in key); Blackwelder 1944: 204 (list of species for Latin America); Roze 1955: 43 (list of species for Venezuela). Ateuchus connexus: Vulcano and Pereira 1967: 589 (new combination, characters in key); Vaz-de-Mello 2000: 190 (cited for Brazil); Hamel-Leigue et al. 2006: 12 (cited for Bolivia); Krajcik 2012: 49 (complete list of species); Ratcliffe et al. 2015: 196 (cited for Peru); Chamorro et al. 2018: 91 (cited for Ecuador).
Type specimens. Choeridium connexumHarold, 1868. Two syntypes examined deposited at the MNHN (ex coll. R Oberthuerand ex coll. HW Bates). Lectotype to be designated in a future work on this species group.
Distribution. Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.
Records examined. ORELLANA: Parque Nacional Yasuni, Estacionde Biodiversidad Tiputini, 220 m USFQ (3 specimens CEMT).
Temporal data. Collected in June and July.
Remarks. Inhabits the lowland evergreen forests of the Amazon region at 220 m a.s.l. Collected with flight interception traps and pitfall traps baited with human feces.