Canthidium (Neocanthidium) luteum Balthasar, 1939

Chamorro, William, Marin-Armijos, Diego, senjo, Angelico & Vaz-De-Mello, Fernando Z., 2019, Scarabaeinae dung beetles from Ecuador: a catalog, nomenclatural acts, and distribution records, ZooKeys 826, pp. 1-343 : 36-37

Canthidium (Neocanthidium) luteum Balthasar, 1939 Plate 11A

Canthidium luteum Balthasar, 1939c: 132 (original description. Type locality: Ecuador).

Canthidium luteum : Vulcano and Pereira 1967: 592 (characters in key); Krajcik 2012: 62 (complete list of species).

Canthidium (Canthidium) luteum : Martínez and Halffter 1986: 28 (cited for Ecuador); Carvajal et al. 2011: 318-319 (cited for Ecuador); Bezdek and Hajek 2012: 303 (catalog of types NMPC).

Canthidium (Neocanthidium) luteum : Cupello 2018: 471 (transferred to the subgenus Canthidium (Neocanthidium) Martínez, Halffter & Pereira, 1964. Distribution, cited for Ecuador); Chamorro et al. 2018: 92 (cited for Ecuador).

Type specimens.

Canthidium luteum Balthasar, 1939. The holotype (♀) is deposited at the NMPC. Locality: Loja Ostcordill, examined.

Holotype (♀): "Loja Ostcordill. / Sabanilla / F. Ohs. 2. 10. 05 [p]", "Typus [p, red label, black margin]", "/ Canthidium / luteum n. sp. / Dr. V. Balthasar det. [p and hw]", "luteum m. [hw, green label, black margin]".

Distribution.

Only known from Ecuador.

Records examined.

LOJA: Ostcordill. Sabanilla [= Sabanilla El Tambo ZAMORA CHINCHIPE] (1 specimen NMPC).

Temporal data.

Collected in October.

Remarks.

Inhabits the evergreen foothill forests of the Amazon region. The collection method is unknown.