Canthidium (Canthidium) funebre 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 : 24

Canthidium (Canthidium) funebre Balthasar, 1939 Plate 7D

Canthidium funebre Balthasar, 1939c: 125 (original description. Type locality: Holländisch Guyane, Gebiet des Lucia-Flusses).

Canthidium funebre : Vulcano and Pereira 1967: 594 (characters in key); Medina et al. 2001: 137 (cited for Colombia); Krajcik 2012: 62 (complete list of species).

Canthidium (Eucanthidium) funebre : Martínez and Halffter 1986: 32 (cited for Surinam and Venezuela); Bezdek and Hajek 2012: 302 (catalog of types NMPC).

Canthidium (Canthidium) funebre : Cupello 2018: 459 (transferred to the subgenus Canthidium (Canthidium) Erichson, 1847. Cited for Ecuador); Chamorro et al. 2018: 92 (cited for Ecuador).

Type specimens.

Canthidium funebre Balthasar, 1939. The holotype is deposited at the NMPC (ex coll. V Balthasar). Locality: Surinam ( Holländisch Guyane, Gebiet des Lucia-Flusses), examined.

Holotype (sex unknown): "Suriname-Exped. / Lucie-riv.-Gebied / VII-VIII. 1926 [p]", "TYPUS [p, red label, black margin]", "C. funebre / n. sp. m / Dr. V. Balthasar det. [p and hw]", "funebre / m [hw, green label, blak margin]", "HOLOTYPE [hw, red label]".

Distribution.

Colombia, Ecuador, Surinam, and Venezuela.

Records examined.

SUCUMBÍOS: Tarapoa Campo Marian, Plataforma Fanny 18B60, 245 m (1 specimen MUTPL).

Temporal data.

Collected in June.

Remarks.

Inhabits the lowland evergreen forests of the Amazon region at 245 m a.s.l. Collected with pitfall traps baited with human feces.