Canthidium (Neocanthidium) smaragdinum Harold, 1867

Cupello, Mario, 2018, On the types species of the New World dung beetle genus Canthidium Erichson, 1847 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae), with an annotated checklist of species, Zootaxa 4388 (4), pp. 451-486 : 473

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4388.4.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5995117
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scientific name	Canthidium (Neocanthidium) smaragdinum Harold, 1867
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Canthidium (Neocanthidium) smaragdinum Harold, 1867 View in CoL

Canthidium smaragdinum Harold, 1867a: 16 View in CoL [here transferred to the subgenus Neocanthidium View in CoL ]. Type locality: Brazil and French Guiana (“ Brasilien, Cayenne”). Type material: Location of syntypes unknown. Distribution: Brazil and French Guiana ( Harold 1867a) [Although explicitly saying two years earlier that his specimens came from both Brazil and Cayenne, Harold (1869a) modified the distribution of C. smaragdinum View in CoL and restricted it to Brazil, which was followed by Blackwelder (1944) and Martínez & Halffter (1986a). Gillet (1911), on the other hand, considered C. smaragdinum View in CoL a junior synonym of C. viride Lucas, 1859 View in CoL , as done earlier by Harold (1869b). Since an argument for the exclusion of French Guiana from the distributional range of C. smaragdinum View in CoL was never presented in the literature, I have decided to follow Harold’s (1867a) original report].