Canthon (Goniocanthon) smaragdulus smaragdulus Fabricius, 1781

Scarabaeus smaragdulus Fabricius, 1781: 34 (original description. Type locality: America meridionali [= South America]).

Remarks.

This species was recorded for Ecuador by the following authors: Blackwelder (1944: 200) cited as Canthon speculifer Lap, current synonym of Canthon (Goniocanthon) smaragdulus smaragdulus Fabricius, 1781; Carvajal et al. (2011: 314-315) quoting Blackwelder (1944) as reference.

Nunes et al. (2018: 9) mentioned this subspecies was recorded in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. According to our data, there are no other records of this species in the collections listed.