Canthon acutus 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 : 213

Canthon acutus Harold, 1868

Canthon acutus Harold, 1868a: 16 , 114 (original description). Type locality: Colombia and northern Brazil. The additional presence on “ Insel St. Thomas”, i.e., the island of Saint Thomas, in the US Virgin Islands, as informed in the original description, is certainly incorrect, as pointed out decades ago by Matthews (1966). The sole Scarabaeinae species known to be present on the island is Canthonella parva Chapin, 1930 , first recorded from there a mere 15 years ago by Ivie & Philips (2008). Harold’s syntype must be mislabelled. Name-bearing type: at least three syntypes, two found by FZVM in MNHN (one mislabelled as though from St. Thomas and another lacking any provenance label).

Distribution

Supposedly Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, and French Guiana ( Schoolmeesters 2023).

Literature records

Candèze 1891: 329 ( Venezuela: San-Esteban). — Schmidt 1922: 72 ( Venezuela). — Blackwelder 1944: 198 ( Venezuela). — Martínez et al. 1964a: 3–4, 10 ( Venezuela). — Vulcano & Pereira 1964: 660 ( Venezuela); 1967: 553 ( Venezuela). — Blanco1987: 42 ( Venezuela: Táchira: Rio Negro y adyacentes). — Medina et al. 2003: 64 ( Venezuela). — Larsen et al. 2008: 1294 ( Venezuela: Bolívar).