Canthon politus Harold, 1868

Rosa, Cecilia Lozano De La, Cupello, Mario & Vaz-De-Mello, Fernando Z., 2024, The dung beetles of Venezuela (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae): catalogue and updated distribution, European Journal of Taxonomy 959 (1), pp. 1-272 : 215

Canthon politus Harold, 1868

Canthon politus Harold, 1868a: 60‒61 (original description). Type locality: Southern Mexico and Colombia. Name-bearing type: a single known syntype (MNHN), examined by FZVM.

Canthon granadensis Van Lansberge, 1874: 5 . Type locality: Colombia (“Nouvelle Grenade ”, in the original description). Type material: holotype by monotypy (MNHN ‒ ex Van Lansberge collection), examined by FZVM.

Epilissus sydneyensis Paulian, 1937: 121 . Type locality: unknown. The type material is labelled simply as “Sydney” ( Matthews 1974), presumably referring to the Australian city of this name, as indeed interpreted by Paulian (1937) in the original description. If this is what the label really means, it is certainly incorrect given that the species is exclusively South American ( Martínez & Halffter 1972; Schoolmeesters 2023). Matthews (1974) was the first to notice this error and to point out the synonymy between Paulian’s Epilissus sydneyensis and Canthon politus . Type material: holotype by original designation (SDEI), not examined by us.

Distribution

Supposedly Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana ( Schoolmeesters 2023).

Literature records

Schmidt 1922: 79 ( Venezuela). — Blackwelder 1944: 201 ( Venezuela). — Pereira & Martínez 1956a: 137 ( Venezuela). — Vulcano & Pereira 1964: 672 ( Venezuela). — Martínez & Halffter 1972: 64 (eastern Venezuela). — Blanco 1987: 42 ( Venezuela: Táchira: Via San Cristóbal-Chorro del Indio). — Havranek 1989: 61 ( Venezuela: Mérida). — Rivera-Cervantes & Halffter 1999: 46 ( Venezuela). — Ferrer-Paris et al. 2013: 108 ( Venezuela: Mérida: La Azulita-Jají and Miranda: Altos de Pipe). — Chamorro et al. 2019: 56 ( Venezuela). — Hielkema & Hielkema 2019: 66 ( Venezuela).