Canthon (Canthon) gemellatus Erichson, 1847

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 : 43

Canthon (Canthon) gemellatus Erichson, 1847

Canthon gemellatus Erichson, 1847: 105 (original description. Type locality: Peru).

Canthon gemellatum : Harold 1868d: 16 (characters in key); 118 (redescription); Gemminger and Harold 1869: 991 (list, distribution); Kirsch 1873: 340 (cited for Peru); Gillet 1911a: 29 (complete list of species); Schmidt 1922: 75 (list, distribution); Balthasar 1939d: 197 (characters in key, cited for Ecuador); Balthasar 1941: 342 (cited for Peru); 1951: 327 (cited for Peru); Vulcano and Pereira 1964: 613 (catalog of species); Halffter and Martínez 1977: 70 (list of species); Carvajal et al. 2011: 314-315 (cited for Ecuador); Krajcik 2012: 63 (complete list of species); Ratcliffe et al. 2015: 195 (cited for Peru).

Canthon (Canthon) gemellatus : Chamorro et al. 2018: 92 (cited for Ecuador).

Canthon gemellatum : Blackwelder 1944: 199 (list of species for Latin America).

Type specimens.

Canthon gemellatus Erichson, 1847. Four syntypes examined deposited at the NMHU. Lectotype to be designated in a future work on this species group.

Distribution.

Ecuador and Peru.

Literature records.

UNDETERMINED PROVINCE: without specific locality ( Balthasar 1939d: 197).

Temporal data.

It is not known when this species was collected.

Remarks.

Habitat and collection methods unknown.