Canthon (Canthon) lituratus (Germar, 1813)

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 : 249-250

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.826.26488

publication LSID

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scientific name

Canthon (Canthon) lituratus (Germar, 1813)
status

 

Canthon (Canthon) lituratus (Germar, 1813) View in CoL

Ateuchus lituratus (Germar, 1813): 117 (original description. Type locality: Brasilien [=Brazil]).

Remarks.

This species was recorded for Ecuador by the following authors: Guérin-Méneville (1855: 587) cited as C. quadripustulatum original description, distribution: Napo-Amazon region; Gillet (1911a: 31) cited as Canthon lituratus quadripustulatus Guér); Blackwelder (1944: 200) cited as Canthon lituratum v. quadripustulatum ; Solís and Kohlmann (2002: 30) cited as Canthon lituratus (Germar); Carvajal et al. (2011: 314-315) list of species.

It is possible that Guérin-Méneville (1855) described a different species that was mistaken for C. lituratus (Germar, 1813). According to our data, there are no other records of this species in the collections listed.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

Genus

Canthon