Canthidium coerulescens (Balthasar, 1939)

Canthidium coerulescens Balthasar, 1939d: 117 (original description). Type locality: Ecuador: eastern slopes of the Andes: “Teremotillo, Iivaria” (unknown province) and “Santa Inéz” (possibly Santa Inéz in the province of Tungurahua; see Paynter 1993). Name-bearing type: three known syntypes (NMPC and SMF), examined by FZVM (see also Bezdĕk & Hájek 2012).

Canthidium coerulescens – Vulcano & Pereira 1967: 592 (transferred to Neocanthidium). — Martínez & Halffter 1986: 26 (transferred to Canthidium ( Canthidium)). — Ferrer-Paris et al. 2013: 100 (list). — Cupello 2018: 468 (comments).

Distribution

Supposedly Venezuela, Ecuador, and Peru (Ferrer-Paris et al. 2013; Cupello 2018; Schoolmeesters 2023).

Literature record

Ferrer-Paris et al. 2013: 100 (Venezuela: Miranda).