Canthon balteatus Boheman, 1858

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Canthon balteatus Boheman, 1858 Plate 14D

Canthon balteatus Boheman, 1858: 41 (original description, type locality: Insula Ohau, Honolulu).

Canthon balteatus : Harold 1868d: 16 (characters in key); 125 (redescription); Gemminger and Harold 1869: 990 (species list, distribution); Gillet 1911a: 28 (complete list of species); Schmidt 1922: 73 (list, distribution); Balthasar 1939d: 209 (characters in key); Vulcano and Pereira 1964: 604 (catalog of species, erroneously cited as Canthon baltheatus ); Halffter and Martínez 1977: 70 (list of species); Medina et al. 2003: 65 (distribution); Carvajal et al. 2011: 314-315 (cited for Ecuador); Krajcik 2012: 63 (complete list of species); Ratcliffe et al. 2015: 195 (cited for Peru); Chamorro et al. 2018: 93 (cited for Ecuador).

Canthon balteatum : Blackwelder 1944: 198 (misspelled name, list of species of Latin America).

Canthon balteatus var. lojanus Balthasar, 1939d: 210 (original description); Bezdek and Hajek 2011: 362 (catalog of the types of the NMPC); Chamorro et al. 2018: 93 (cited for Ecuador).

Canthon lojanum : Blackwelder 1944: 200 (list of species from Latin America).

Type specimens.

Canthon balteatus Boheman, 1858. Five syntypes examined deposited at the NHRS and IRSN. Lectotype to be designated in a future work on this species group.

Canthon balteatus var. lojanus Balthasar, 1939. One syntype (♀) examined is deposited at the NMPC. Locality: Loja. Examined.

Syntype (♀): "ECUADOR / Loja / Ohaus S. [p]", "Typus [p, red label, black margin] ", "var. lojanus m. [hw, green label, black margin]".

Distribution.

Ecuador and Peru.

Records examined.

AZUAY: 5 km W and 3 km S de Sta Isabel, 1450 m (7 specimens CEMT). EL ORO: Arenillas, 15 m (100 specimens CEMT; 165 specimens MUTPL); GUAYAS: Guayaquil (5 specimens MQCAZ). MANABÍ: Aguas Blancas, 50 m (3 specimens MUTPL); Crucita (3 specimes MQCAZ); El Aromo, La Fabril, 290 m (2 specimens MUTPL); El Aromo, 370 m (2 specimens MQCAZ); Manta, 10 m (6 specimens MUTPL; 7 specimens MQCAZ); Montecristi, Pichihuama, 190 m (10 specimens MQCAZ); Puerto López (2 specimens MUTPL; 3 specimens MQCAZ); San Clemente (5 specimens MQCAZ). LOJA: Catamayo (3 specimens MQCAZ; 8 specimens MUTPL); Catamayo, Alamala, 1400 m (10 specimens CEMT; 18 specimens MUTPL); Celica (29 specimens MUTPL); Río Catamayo, 1500 m (1 specimen CEMT; 5 specimens MUTPL); Saraguro, Manú, 1300 m (16 specimens MUTPL); Zapotillo, Chaquiro, 310 m (15 specimens MUTPL). LOS RÍOS: CRP [= Centro Río Palenque] (1 specimen CEMT; 4 specimens MQCAZ). SANTA ELENA: Olón, 10 m (4 specimens CEMT; 12 specimens MUTPL).

Temporal data.

Collected every month of the year.

Remarks.

Inhabits coastal lowland semi-deciduous forests and coastal lowland dry scrub from 10-1400 m a.s.l. Collected with pitfall traps baited with carrion and human feces.

According to Bousquet (2016: 84) and subsequently Cupello (2018: 477) the reports by Boheman (1858) are possibly incorrect with regard to their type localities. Specifically, it is likely that some specimens collected in the Neotropics were mingled with others caught in the Hawaiian archipelago.