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

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.826.26488

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scientific name

Canthidium (Neocanthidium) luteum Balthasar, 1939
status

 

Canthidium (Neocanthidium) luteum Balthasar, 1939 View in CoL 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.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

Genus

Canthidium