Canthidium (Canthidium) aurifex Bates, 1887

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 : 22

Canthidium (Canthidium) aurifex Bates, 1887 Plate 7B

Canthidium aurifex Bates, 1887: 48 (original description. Type locality: Panama, Bugaba [= Bugabá]).

Canthidium aurifex : Gillet 1911a: 54 (list, distribution); Blackwelder 1944: 205 (list, distribution); Howden and Young 1981: 72 (characters in key), 91 (redescription); Medina et al. 2001: 137 (cited for Colombia); Ratcliffe 2002: 14 (cited for Panama); Solís and Kohlmann 2004: 11 (characters in key), 30 (redescription); Solís and Kohlmann 2012: 5 (cited for Costa Rica); Krajcik 2012: 62 (complete list of species).

Canthidium (Eucanthidium) aurifex : Martínez and Halffter 1986: 31 (cited for Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica); Morón 2003: 55 (cited for Mexico); Carvajal et al. 2011: 318-319 (cited for Ecuador).

Canthidium (Canthidium) aurifex : Cupello 2018: 456 (transferred to the subgenus Canthidium (Canthidium) Erichson, 1847. Cited for Ecuador); Chamorro et al. 2018: 92 (cited for Ecuador).

Type specimens.

Canthidium aurifex Bates, 1887. One syntype examined deposited at the NHML. Lectotype to be designated in a future work on this species group.

Distribution.

Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, and Panama.

Literature records.

LOS RÍOS: Río Palenque, 200 m ( Howden and Young 1981: 92).

Temporal data.

It is not known when this species was collected.

Remarks.

Inhabits coastal lowland evergreen forests at 200 m a.s.l. Collection method is unknown.