Homocopris buckleyi (Waterhouse, 1891)

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 : 155

Homocopris buckleyi (Waterhouse, 1891) Plate 33C

Pinotus buckleyi Waterhouse, 1891a: 359 (original description. Type locality: Ecuador, Chiguinda).

Pinotus buckleyi : Gillet 1911a: 59 (complete list of species, written as Pinotus Buckleyi ); Luederwaldt 1929: 50 (characters in key, written as Pinotus Buckleyi ); Blackwelder 1944: 206 (list of species from Latin America).

Pinotus (Pinotus) buckleyi : Luederwaldt 1936: 208 (redescription).

Dichotomius buckleyi : Carvajal et al. 2011: 320-321 (cited for Ecuador); Krajcik 2012: 91 (complete list of species).

Homocopris buckleyi : Vaz-de-Mello et al. 2010: 192 (cited as new combination, comment); Chamorro et al. 2018: 96 (cited for Ecuador).

Type specimens.

Pinotus buckleyi Waterhouse, 1891. The holotype (♂) is deposited at the NHML. Locality: Chiguinda, examined.

Holotype (♂): "Chiquin / -da / 80. 14 [hw]", "Type [p, red margin]", "Pinotus / Buckleyi, / (Type) Waterh. [hw]".

Distribution.

Ecuador and Peru.

Records examined.

LOJA: Amaluza, Angashcola, 2740 m (37 specimens MUTPL); Saraguro, Huashapamba, 2920 m (5 specimens CEMT; 2 specimens MUTPL).

Literature records.

LOJA [= ZAMORA CHINCHIPE]: Andes, Sabonilla [= Sabanilla, El Tambo] (Luederwaldt, 1936: 209). MORONA SANTIAGO: Chiguinda [= Chigüinda] (Waterhouse, 1891a: 359).

Temporal data.

Collected in October and December.

Remarks.

Inhabits the montane cloud forests and the evergreen high montane forests of the Andean region from 2150-3100 m a.s.l. Collected with pitfall traps baited with human feces.