Canthon (Canthon) delicatulus Balthasar, 1939

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 : 41-43

Canthon (Canthon) delicatulus Balthasar, 1939 Plate 11C

Canthon delicatulus Balthasar, 1939d: 234 (original description. Type locality: West-Ecuador, Guayaquil und Pucay [= Bucay]).

Canthon delicatulum : Blackwelder 1944: 199 (list of species of Latin America).

Canthon delicatulus : Vulcano and Pereira 1964: 610 (catalog of species); Carvajal et al. 2011: 314-315 (cited for Ecuador).

Canthon (Canthon) delicatulus : Halffter and Martínez 1977: 89 (transferred to the subgenus Canthon s. str.); Bezdek and Hajek 2011: 362 (catalog of types NMPC); Krajcik 2012: 63 (complete list of species); Chamorro et al. 2018: 92 (cited for Ecuador).

Type specimens.

Canthon delicatulus Balthasar, 1939. Two syntypes examined deposited at the MSMF and NMPC. Lectotype to be designated in a future work on this species group.

Syntype (♂): "W Ecuador / Guayaquil / F. Ohaus S. [p]", "Guayaquil / F. Ohs. 28. 5. 05 [p]", "Canthon / delicatulus / n. sp. m. / Dr. V. Balthasar det. [p and hw]", "[one face] Typus [p, red label, black margin], [opposite face] 6. 423 [hw]", "[one face] Senckemberg- / Museum / Frankfurt/Main [p], [opposite face] Canthon / delicatulus B. [hw]".

Syntype (♀): "W Ecuador / Pucay / F. Ohaus S. [p]", " Bucay 300 m. / F. Ohs. 23. 6. 05 [p]", "Typus [p, red label, black margin]", "C. delicatulus / n. sp. m. / Dr. V. Balthasar det. [p and hw]", "delicatulus m. [hw, green label, black margin]".

Distribution.

Only known from Ecuador.

Records examined.

AZUAY: Ponce Enriquez Mina Sorresdor, 40 m (5 specimens MUTPL); Ponce Enriquez Río Tenguel, 195 m (8 specimens MUTPL). EL ORO: Buenaventura Bajo, 500 m (4 specimens MQCAZ); El Pache 60 m, Río El Pache (5 specimens MQCAZ); 3 km E de Abañin, 800 m (1 specimen CEMT; 7 specimens MQCAZ); Piñas, 1200 m (1 specimen CEMT; 6 specimens MQCAZ); Uzhcurrumi, 500 m (1 specimen CEMT; 3 specimens MQCAZ). ESMERALDAS: Playa de Oro, 200 m (7 specimens MQCAZ); Puerto Balao, 200 m (2 specimens MUTPL); San Mateo (1 specimen CEMT; 2 specimens MQCAZ); Vainilla (3 specimens MQCAZ). GUAYAS: Guayaquil (1 specimen MSMF; 4 specimens CEMT; 5 specimens MQCAZ); Bucay, 300 m (1 specimen NMPC; 6 specimens MQCAZ). LOJA: Catamayo Alamala, 1380 m (1 specimen CEMT); Zapotillo Chaquiro, 340 m (1 specimen CEMT). LOS RÍOS: Estación Río Palenque (6 specimens MQCAZ). MANABÍ: Ayampe, 35 m (1 specimen MUTPL); El Aromo, 370 m (5 specimens MUTPL); San Juan de Manta, 20 m (8 specimens MUTPL); Puerto Rico, 25 m (1 specimen MQCAZ). PICHINCHA: Puerto Quito (5 specimens MQCAZ). SANTO DOMINGO DE LOS TSÁCHILAS: Alluriquín, 1200 m (7 specimens MQCAZ); Santo Domingo, Pupusa (3 specimens MQCAZ); Santo Domingo, Puerto Limón (3 specimens MUTPL).

Temporal data.

Collected all months of the year except August.

Remarks.

Inhabits coastal lowland evergreen forests, lowland semi-deciduous forests, and evergreen foothill forests from 40-1200 m a.s.l. Collected with pitfall traps baited with carrion and human feces.