Canthon acutoides Schmidt, 1922

Rosa, Cecilia Lozano De La, Cupello, Mario & Vaz-De-Mello, Fernando Z., 2024, The dung beetles of Venezuela (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae): catalogue and updated distribution, European Journal of Taxonomy 959 (1), pp. 1-272 : 213

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2024.959.2677
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:30872C13-516F-42FA-AFA7-30ADC6BF1BAF
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13945932
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scientific name	Canthon acutoides Schmidt, 1922
status

Treatment

Canthon acutoides Schmidt, 1922 View in CoL

Canthon acutoides Schmidt, 1922 View in CoL : (original description). Type locality: Colombia. Name-bearing type: lectotype (NHRS), designated by Vaz-de-Mello & Cupello (2018), examined by FZVM. Note: though, in the original description, Schmidt (1922) indicated the species as present in Venezuela in addition to Colombia, neither we nor Vaz-de-Mello & Cupello (2018) could locate any Venezuelan syntypes (now lectotype and paralectotypes) in collections, solely Colombian ones. All the other authors who have ascribed the species to Venezuela (see below) seem to have done so relying on Schmidt’s record. In the absence of specimens originating from the country, we consider the presence of Canthon acutoides View in CoL in Venezuela as dubious.

Distribution

Supposedly Colombia and Venezuela ( Schoolmeesters 2023).

Literature records

Schmidt 1922: 72, 82 ( Venezuela). — Balthasar 1939a: 208 ( Venezuela). — Blackwelder 1944: 198 ( Venezuela). — Vulcano & Pereira 1964: 660 ( Venezuela); 1967: 553, 562 ( Venezuela).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Coleoptera
Family	Scarabaeidae
Genus	Canthon