On the types species of the New World dung beetle genus Canthidium Erichson, 1847 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae), with an annotated checklist of species
Author
Cupello, Mario
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-03-06
4388
4
451
486
journal article
30595
10.11646/zootaxa.4388.4.1
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Canthidium
(
Canthidium
)
cupreum
(
Blanchard, 1846
)
Chaeridium cupreum
Blanchard, 1846
: 169
[transferred to
Canthidium
by
Harold 1869a
: 1004
(see also
Harold 1869b
: 57
); here transferred to the subgenus
Canthidium
;
type
species of
Eucanthidium
].
Type
locality:
Bolivia
:
Santa Cruz
: Vallegrande (“province de
Valle
Grande”).
Type
material:
Syntypes
probably at MNHN.
Distribution:
Brazil
,
Peru
,
Bolivia
, and
Argentina
(Martínez & Halffter 1986a; including the
type
locality of
C. orbiculatum
).
Choeridium orbiculatum
Lucas, 1859: 103
(synonymized with
C. cupreum
by
Gillet 1911
: 55
).
Type
material:
Peru
:
Loreto
:
Ucayali
: Sarayacu (“mission de Sarayacu”).
Type
material:
Location of
syntypes
unknown.
Canthidium aureolum
Harold, 1867: 83
[synonymized with
C. orbiculatum
Lucas, 1859
by
Harold 1869b
: 57
].
Type
locality:
Brazil
: the
Amazon region
(“Die brasilianische, auch in dem
Gebiete des
Amazonenstromes
von Bates gesammelte Art [...]”).
Type
material:
Location of
syntypes
unknown (possibly at MNHN—ex Harold collection).