Three new species of Canthonella Chapin from Hispaniola, with new records and Nomenclatural changes for West Indian dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae)
Author
Ivie, Michael A.
Author
Philips, Keith
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Zootaxa
2008
1701
1
14
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.180818
850fc9b3-67a6-4ced-b77b-3cc2bebe8857
1175-5326
180818
Canthonella parva
Chapin, 1930
Previously known only from
Puerto Rico
, this is the first report of this species from the
Virgin Islands
: ST. THOMAS: 1 — Est. Enighed, Magens Bay Arboretum, 0
1 JAN 1993
, VIBFP colrs (WIBF); 1 — Est. Botany Bay,
29 JULY–15 OCT 1994
, M. A. and L. L. Ivie, flight intercept trap (WIBF). This discovery of an allopatric population of
C. parva
on a second island calls for reevaluation of the subspecies concepts in this species, but this is beyond the scope of this paper.