Ontherus (scarab beetle)

Abundance: 0.02 to 75.82% (median 1.39%)

Latitudinal range: -31.4° to 18.4°

Habitats: desert/xeric shrubland (1), tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest (12), tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest (13), tropical/subtropical savanna (6)

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Found in 32 samples

Bolivia: Parque Nacional Noel Kempff Mercado (1997 forest samples)

Brazil: Minimum Critical Size of Ecosystems Project (contiguous forest), Fazenda Encanto (human feces baited), Fazenda Encanto (bovine meat baited), Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (nocturnal traps), Viçosa (cow dung), Viçosa (horse dung), Ilha Solteira, Charles Darwin Ecological Refuge (open habitat), Campos Novos (feces baited), Fazenda Canchim, Manga Rosa, Morro do Elefante, Morro do Cerrito, Campus da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Bagé (Eragrostis plana), Bagé (Eucalyptus spp.), Floresta Nacional Contendas do Sincorá (wet season), Area de Proteção Ambiental de Cafuringa (feces-baited), Guajará Mirim e Nova Mamoré (baço bovino), Mata Seca State Park (December)

Colombia: Piritáma II, Reserva Natural La Planada (primary forest site 1), Refugio del Oso de Anteojos, Reserva Natural La Planada (secondary forest site 1), Reserva Natural La Planada (pasture site 1), Reserva Natural La Planada (cropland site 1)

Ecuador: Chiruisla Station

French Guiana: Paracou (roadside forest)

Mexico: Los Tuxtlas (continuous forest)

Panama: El Hato del Volcan (large traps), El Hato del Volcan (small traps)

See also Ontherus appendiculatus, Ontherus azteca, Ontherus carinicollis, Ontherus carinifrons, Ontherus compressicornis, Ontherus diabolicus, Ontherus didymus, Ontherus digitatus, Ontherus kirschii, Ontherus mexicanus, Ontherus sp., Ontherus sp. 1, Ontherus sulcator, Ontherus trituberculatus