Phanaeus scutifer Bates, 1887 Recorded Distribution: MEXICO: Veracruz — Alto Lucero de Gutiérrez Barrios, Juchique de Ferrer, Xalapa, Actopan, Xico, Emiliano Zapata, Cotaxtla. Altitude: from 46 to 1345 m a.s.l. Biomes: Tropical & Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests, Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests. Ecorregions: NEOTROPIC: Veracruz dry forests, Veracruz moist forests, Sierra Madre Oriental montane forests. Predicted distribution: This species distributes from 17.05° to 20.41° latitude in an area of 8,092 Km2. Its predicted distribution has a mean annual temperature of 21.64-25.45° C with a maximum difference of temperature of 17.34° C during the year and mean precipitation of 1123-1561 mm per year.

Published as part of Lizardo, Viridiana, Moctezuma, Víctor & Escobar-Sarria, Federico, 2022, Predicted and recorded distribution maps of the genus Phanaeus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Supplementary material of Distribution, Regionalization, and Diversity of the dung beetle genus Phanaeus MacLeay (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) using Species Distribution Models, pp. 1-77 in Zootaxa (suppl.) (suppl.) 5213 (5) on page 45, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7387492