Canthon cyanellus LeConte, 1859

Taboada-Verona, Carlos, Sermeño-Correa, Carlos, Sierra-Serrano, Oscar & Noriega, Jorge Ari, 2019, Checklist of the superfamily Scarabaeoidea (Insecta, Coleoptera) in an urban area of the Caribbean Colombia, Check List 15 (4), pp. 579-594 : 586

Canthon cyanellus LeConte, 1859

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Geographic distribution. Belize, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, USA, and Venezuela ( Horgan 2001, Solís and Kohlmann 2002, Noriega et al. 2013, Latha et al. 2016). In Colombia: Atlántico, Bolívar, Cesar, Chocó, Córdoba, Guajira, Magdalena, Meta, Sucre, and Tolima ( Vulcano and Pereira 1964, Navarro et al. 2011, Neita-Moreno 2012, Noriega et al. 2013).

Material examined. Colombia, Sucre, Sincelejo, University of Sucre campus (09°18′52″N, 075°23′18″W), 2016/05/23, MZUSU E02573-80 (8, sex undetermined).

Identification. The diagnostic characters of the species are the yellow pronotum, with a medial black stripe, and the elytra and pygidium with black margins.