Canthidium (Canthidium) opacum 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 : 26-28

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scientific name

Canthidium (Canthidium) opacum Balthasar, 1939
status

 

Canthidium (Canthidium) opacum Balthasar, 1939 View in CoL Plate 9A

Canthidium opacum Balthasar, 1939c: 133 (original description. Type locality: Süd-Ecuador).

Canthidium opacum : Vulcano and Pereira 1967: 595 (characters in key).

Canthidium (Eucanthidium) opacum : Martínez and Halffter 1986: 33 (cited for Ecuador); Carvajal et al. 2011: 318-319 (cited for Ecuador); Krajcik 2012: 62 (complete list of species); Bezdek and Hajek 2012: 303 (catalog of type NMPC).

Canthidium (Canthidium) opacum : Cupello 2018: 462 (transferred to the subgenus Canthidium (Canthidium) Erichson, 1847. Cited for Ecuador); Chamorro et al. 2018: 92 (cited for Ecuador).

Type specimens.

Canthidium opacum Balthasar, 1939. The holotype is deposited at the NMPC (ex coll. V Balthasar). Locality: Landangui, examined.

Holotype (sex unknown): "S. ECUADOR / Landangui EW [p]", "Typus [p, red label, black margin]", "Canthidium / opacum / n. sp. / Dr. V. Balthasar det. [p and hw]", "opacum / m. [hw, green label, black margin]", "HOLOTYPE [hw, red label]".

Distribution.

Only known from Ecuador.

Records examined.

Loja: Landangui (1 specimen NMPC).

Temporal data.

It is not known when this species was collected.

Remarks.

Inhabits the foothill evergreen forests of the Amazon region. Collection method unknown.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

Genus

Canthidium