Canthidium (Neocanthidium) centrale Boucomont, 1928

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 : 31-33

Canthidium (Neocanthidium) centrale Boucomont, 1928 Plate 10A

Canthidium centrale Boucomont, 1928b: 203 (original description. Type locality: Panama, Chiriqui, Guyane française: St-Jean du Maroni, St-Laurent du Maroni, Guyane hollandaise, Surinam).

Canthidium centrale : Blackwelder 1944: 205 (list, distribution); Vulcano and Pereira 1967: 593 (characters in key); Howden and Young 1981: 74 (characters in key), 75 (redescription); Medina et al. 2001: 137 (cited for Colombia); Ratcliffe 2002: 14 (cited for Panama); Solís and Kohlmann 2004: 9 (characters in key), 33 (redescription); Solís and Kohlmann 2012: 5 (cited for Costa Rica); Krajcik, 2012: 62 (complete list of species).

Canthidium (Canthidium) centrale : Martínez and Halffter 1986: 26 (cited for Ecuador, Panama, Guatemala, Mexico); Morón 2003: 55 (redescription, cited for Mexico); Carvajal et al. 2011: 318-319 (cited for Ecuador); Chamorro et al. 2018: 92 (cited for Ecuador).

Canthidium (Neocanthidium) centrale : Cupello 2018: 467 (transferred to the subgenus Canthidium (Neocanthidium) Martínez, Halffter & Pereira, 1964. Distribution, cited for Ecuador); Chamorro et al. 2018: 92 (cited for Ecuador).

Neocanthidium martinezi Edmonds & Halffter, 1978: 319 (original description); Solís and Kohlmann 2004: 33 (synonym of Canthidium centrale Boucomont, 1928); Solís and Kohlmann 2012: 5 (cited as synonym of Canthidium centrale Boucomont, 1928); Cupello, 2018: 467 (comment).

Type specimens.

Canthidium centrale Boucomont, 1928. The holotype (sex unknown) is deposited at the MNHN (see Solís and Kohlmann 2004: 33). Locality: Panama, Chiriqui. Not examined.

Neocanthidium martinezi Edmonds & Halffter, 1978. Type material not examined.

Distribution.

Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panama, and Mexico.

Records examined.

ESMERALDAS: Majua (1 specimen CEMT); Playa de Oro (1 specimen CEMT); Pote (1 specimen CEMT). LOS RÍOS: Río Palenque Station (1 specimen CEMT).

Temporal data.

Collected in February and March.

Remarks.

Inhabits coastal lowland evergreen forests. Collected with pitfall traps baited with human feces.