Canthidium (Canthidium) rufinum Harold, 1867

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 : 31

Canthidium (Canthidium) rufinum Harold, 1867 Plate 9C

Canthidium rufinum Harold, 1867b: 79 (original description. Type locality: Columbien [= Colombia], Costa Rica, und Bogotá, auch vom oberen Amazonenstrom).

Canthidium rufinum : Gemminger and Harold 1869: 1006 (complete list of species); Gillet 1911a: 56 (complete list of species); Blackwelder 1944: 205 (list of species de Latin America); Contreras 1951: 221 (cited for Colombia); Vulcano and Pereira 1967: 594 (characters in key); Vaz-de-Mello 2000: 191 (cited for Brazil); Medina et al. 2001: 138 (cited for Colombia); Hamel-Leigue et al. 2006: 12 (cited for Bolivia); Krajcik 2012: 63 (complete list of species).

Canthidium (Eucanthidium) rufinum : Martínez and Halffter 1986: 33 (cited for Bolivia and Colombia).

Canthidium (Canthidium) rufinum : Cupello 2018: 464 (transferred to the subgenus Canthidium (Canthidium) Erichson, 1847); Chamorro et al. 2018: 92 (cited for Ecuador).

Type specimens.

Canthidium rufinum Harold, 1867. Six syntypes examined deposited at the MNHN (ex coll. E Harold, ex coll. HW Bates and ex coll. R Oberthur). Lectotype to be designated in a future work on this species group.

Distribution.

Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, and Ecuador.

Records examined.

ORELLANA: Río Tiputini, Parque Nacional Yasuní 250 (1 specimen CEMT); Yasuní (1 specimen CEMT). SUCUMBÍOS: 6 km de Dureno, Precooperativa Los Vergeles, 300 m (1 specimen CEMT).

Temporal data.

Collected in August and November.

Remarks.

Inhabits the lowland evergreen forests of the Amazon region from 250-300 m a.s.l. Collected with pitfall traps baited with carrion.