Canthon (Goniocanthon) smaragdulus smaragdulus Fabricius, 1781

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 : 251

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scientific name	Canthon (Goniocanthon) smaragdulus smaragdulus Fabricius, 1781
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Canthon (Goniocanthon) smaragdulus smaragdulus Fabricius, 1781 View in CoL

Scarabaeus smaragdulus Fabricius, 1781: 34 (original description. Type locality: America meridionali [= South America]).

Remarks.

This species was recorded for Ecuador by the following authors: Blackwelder (1944: 200) cited as Canthon speculifer Lap, current synonym of Canthon (Goniocanthon) smaragdulus smaragdulus Fabricius, 1781; Carvajal et al. (2011: 314-315) quoting Blackwelder (1944) as reference.

Nunes et al. (2018: 9) mentioned this subspecies was recorded in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. According to our data, there are no other records of this species in the collections listed.