Scybalocanthon pygidialis (Schmidt, 1922)

Fig. 73A

Canthon pygidialis Schmidt, 1922: 65, 79, 90 (original description). Type locality: Amazon, no specified country (“ Amazonas ”) (see Vaz-de-Mello & Cupello 2018). Name-bearing type: lectotype (SMTD), designated by Silva & Valois (2019), examined by FZVM.

Canthon pygidialis – Balthasar 1939a: 192 (monograph). — Blackwelder 1944: 201 (checklist). — Krajcik 2006: 30 (checklist); 2012: 64 (checklist). — Vaz-de-Mello & Cupello 2018: 63, 64 (list of types).

Scybalocanthon pygidialis – Pereira & Martínez 1956a: 114, 119 (key, new combination). — Vulcano & Pereira 1964: 639 (catalogue); 1967: 554 (key). — Halffter & Martínez 1977: 68 (list, review). — Feer 2000: 32 (list); 2008: 56, 62 (ecology); 2013: 767 (list for French Guiana). — Medina et al. 2001: 137 (checklist for Colombia); 2003: 49 (fig. 119). — Feer & Pincebourde 2005: 30 (list). — Quintero & Roslin 2005: 3307 (list, habitat). — Larsen 2011: 99 (list); 2013: 97 (list). — Price & Feer 2012: 327 (list). — Ratcliffe 2013: 493 (list, ecology). — Feer & Boissier 2015: 169 (list). — Hielkema & Hielkema 2019: 82 (catalogue for the Guianas). — Silva & Valois 2019: 307, 331 (revision).

Scybalocanthon pygidiale – Vaz-de-Mello 2000: 194–195 (checklist).

Distribution

Venezuela, Suriname, French Guiana, and Brazil (Silva & Valois 2019).

Subregions of Venezuela

System of hills and low piedmont mountains of the Guiana Shield, System of low mountains and hills Imataca-Cuyuní of Northeast Guyana Shield, and Guiana Shield.

Literature records

Schmidt 1922: 90 ([Venezuela?]: Amazonas). — Medina et al. 2003: 65 (Venezuela). — Silva & Valois 2019: 307, 331 (Venezuela: Bolívar).