He placed it in the genus Cartwrightia which the Mexican entomologist Federico Islas Salas had named after him nine years earlier.

[1] Cartwright's colleague at the National Museum of Natural History Paul J. Spangler wrote Cartwright named this species "with tongue and cheek and the usual twinkle in his eye" and that this name led him to be "subjected to considerable kidding".

[4] Its type locality, where the holotype and paratypes were collected, is the Saavedra Experiment Station, 60 miles (97 km) north of Santa Cruz de la Sierra in eastern Bolivia.

[1] It has been subsequently found in the Bolivian town of San Ramón, Santa Cruz,[5] in Mata dos Godoy State Park [pt] in the state of Paraná in southern Brazil,[6] and in Presidencia de la Plaza, Chaco Province in northern Argentina.

[7] The studies in Presidencia de la Plaza and San Ramón found C. cartwrighti in cow dung, but only in forests but not in nearby pastures,[5][7] while the study in Paraná found specimens only in pastures but not in nearby forests.