Genus Pseudocanthon Bates, 1887

Pseudocanthon Bates, 1887: 35 (original description). Type species: Canthon perplexus LeConte, 1847, by original monotypy.

Opiocanthon Paulian, 1947: 29–30 (original description). Type species: Canthon vitraci Fleutiaux & Sallé, 1889, by original designation.

Pseudocanthon – Bates 1889: 386 (cited). — Gillet 1911b: 27 (as junior synonym of Canthon). — Lucas 1920: 548 (catalogue). — Islas 1942: 303 (cited as a synonym of Canthon). — Blackwelder 1944: 198 (as junior synonym of Canthon; checklist). — Martínez 1947a: 263–264 (redescription); 1959: 57–58 (catalogue). — Pereira & Martínez 1956a: 95, 109, 184 (key, distribution). — Halffter 1961: 231–233 (monograph). — Vulcano & Pereira 1964: 591 (catalogue); 1967: 551 (key). — Halffter & Matthews 1966: 261 (list). — Matthews 1966: 83–85 (description, revision for the Antilles). — Halffter & Martínez 1977: 35, 45, 60, 62 (key, list, comments). — Howden & Young 1981: 35 (contributions). — Halffter & Edmonds 1982: 139 (list). — Medina & Lopera-Toro 2000: 301, 311 (key). — Vaz-de-Mello 2000: 194 (checklist). — Ratcliffe 2002: 13 (checklist). — Medina et al. 2003: 41 (systematic). — Medina & Pulido-Herrera 2009: 56, 59 (list). — Vaz-de-Mello et al. 2011a: 6, 11,18, 26, 33, 41, 45, fig. 149 (key). — Carvajal et al. 2011: 99, 119, 314 (list, description). — Solís & Kohlmann 2012: 2, 4 (checklist). — Boilly & Vaz-de-Mello 2013: 107 (key). — Tarasov & Dimitrov 2016: 15 (phylogeny). — Tissiani et al. 2017: 414 (key). — Cupello & Vaz-de-Mello 2018: 13, 17‒18, 20, 32, 35–37, 39, 173 (cited). — Chamorro et al. 2018: 76 (key). — Hielkema & Hielkema 2019: 81 (catalogue for the Guianas). — Nazaré-Silva & Silva 2021: 61–86 (revision for South America).

Opiocanthon – Matthews 1966: 85 (cited as synonym of Pseudocanthon). — Ratcliffe 2002: 13 (cited as synonym of Pseudocanthon). — Solís & Kohlmann 2012: 4 (cited as synonym of Pseudocanthon). — Peck et al. 2014: 43 (cited as synonym of Pseudocanthon). — Cupello & Vaz-de-Mello 2018: 18 (cited as synonym of Pseudocanthon). — Nazaré-Silva & Silva 2021: 62, 64 (cited as synonym of Pseudocanthon).

Canthon (Pseudocanthon) – Krajcik 2006: 25 (checklist); 2012: 63 (checklist).