Sinapisoma minuta Boucomont, 1928

Hielkema, Auke J. & Hielkema, Meindert A., 2019, An annotated checklist of the Scarabaeoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Guianas, Insecta Mundi 732 (732), pp. 1-306 : 83

Sinapisoma minuta Boucomont, 1928

Sinapisoma minutum Boucomont 1928a: 3 ( French Guiana, Brazil (NA))

Distribution. Suriname: MHCN - NEW COUNTRY RECORD (Suriname, Sipaliwini, eastern bank Corantijn opposite Arapahu Resort, (3°27′N, 57°37.5′W). 1/ 11-III-2011. A. J. Hielkema. In FIT in forest.); NZCS; RMNH. French Guiana: Boucomont 1928a: 3 (as S. minutum ); Blackwelder 1944: 203 (as S. minuta ); Vulcano and Pereira 1964: 585 (as S. minutum ( Laporte, 1840)) ; Halffter and Martínez 1968: 246 (as S. minutum ); MHCN. Brazil (NA): Boucomont 1928a: 3 (as S. minutum ) (NA); Vulcano and Pereira 1964: 585 (as S. minutum ( Laporte, 1840)) ; Halffter and Martínez 1968: 246 (as S. minutum ) (NA); Vaz-de-Mello 2000: 195. Venezuela (EO): Halffter and Martínez 1968: 246 (as S. minutum ) (EO). “Amazon Basin”: Balthasar 1941c: 344 (as S. minuta ( Laporte, 1840)) . Other: Balthasar 1941c: 344 (Peru - as S. minuta ( Laporte, 1840)) ; Vulcano and Pereira 1964: 585 (Peru - as S. minutum ( Laporte, 1840)) ; Medina et al. 2001: 137 (Colombia - as S. minutum ).

Note. Boucomont (1928a: 3) described Sinapisoma minuta with the remark that it might be synonymous with Canthon minutus Laporte, 1840 (p. 69) from “Cayenne,” although he noted that this was based only on the color and size mentioned by Laporte. Since, according to Halffter and Martínez (1968: 246), the type of C. minutus cannot be found and there are more small species fitting Laporte’s description, there are no grounds to make this assumption. Still, several authors ( Balthasar 1941c: 344; Vulcano and Pereira 1964: 585) have considered C. minutus a synonym of S. minuta . We consider C. minuta a species inquirendum. See also the remark in Halffter and Martínez (1968).