Sylvicanthon aequinoctialis (Harold, 1868)

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 : 257

Sylvicanthon aequinoctialis (Harold, 1868)

Canthon aequinoctialis Harold, 1868d: 14 (characters in key), 79 (original description. Type locality: Columbien, Neu-Granada [= Colombia, Nueva Granada]).

Remarks.

This species was recorded for Ecuador by the following authors: Schmidt (1922: 72), Coca locality [= El Coca city, formerly known as Francisco de Orellana]; Blackwelder (1944: 198) misspelled the name Canthon aequinoctiale Har; Pereira and Martínez (1956a: 128) distribution, cited as Glaphyrocanthon aequinoctialis (Harold, 1868) comb. n.; Martínez et al. (1964: 8-9), distribution; Vulcano and Pereira (1964: 661) cited as Glaphyrocanthon aequinoctialis (Harold, 1868); Solís and Kohlmann (2002: 6), redescription.

Cupello and Vaz-de-Mello (2018: 93) mentioned that S. aequinoctialis (Harold, 1868) has been recorded in Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. According to our data, there are no other records of this species in the collections listed.