Canthidium (Canthidium) flavum 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 : 22-24

Canthidium (Canthidium) flavum Balthasar, 1939 Plate 7C

Canthidium flavum Balthasar, 1939c: 125 (original description. Type locality: Ecuador, Kordillieren).

Canthidium flavum : Vulcano and Pereira 1967: 595 (characters in key); Carvajal et al. 2011: 318-319 (cited for Ecuador). Krajcik 2012: 62 (complete list of species); Bezdek and Hajek 2012: 301 (catalog of types NMPC); Cupello, 2018: 475 (transferred to Canthidium incertae sedis, cited from Ecuador); Chamorro et al. 2018: 92 (cited for Ecuador).

Type specimens.

Canthidium flavum Balthasar, 1939. The holotype (♀) is deposited at the NMPC (ex coll. V Balthasar). Locality: Loja Ostcordill, examined.

Holotype (♀): "Loja Ostcordill. / Sabanilla / F. Ohs. 2. 10. 05", "Canthidium / flavum n. sp. / Dr. V. Balthasar det [p and hw]", "SEM [p]", "Typus [p, red label, black margin]", "Mus. Nat. Pragae / 26 236 / Inv. [p and hw, orange label]", "flavum / m. [hw, green label, black margin]', "HOLOTYPE [hw, red label]".

Distribution.

Only known from Ecuador.

Records examined.

LOJA: Sabanilla [= Sabanilla, El Tambo, ZAMORA CHINCHIPE] (1 specimen NMPC).

Temporal data.

Collected in October.

Remarks.

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