Canthon (Glaphyrocanthon) bimaculatus Schmidt, 1922

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 : 46

Canthon (Glaphyrocanthon) bimaculatus Schmidt, 1922 Plate 12B

Canthon bimaculatus Schmidt, 1922: 83 (original description, Type locality: Amazonas, Columbien [= Colombia]).

Canthon bimaculatus : Balthasar 1939d: 216 (characters in key); Carvajal et al. 2011: 314-315 (cited for Ecuador); Ratcliffe et al. 2015: 195 (cited for Peru).

Canthon bimaculatum : Blackwelder 1944: 198 (list of species for Latin America); Contreras 1951: 221 (cited for Colombia); Ratcliffe et al. 2015: 195 (cited for Peru).

Geocanthon bimaculatus : Pereira and Martínez 1956a: 144 (cited as new combination, diagnosis); Vulcano and Pereira 1964: 669 (catalog of species); Vulcano and Pereira 1967: 550 (characters in key).

Geocanthon femoralis bimaculatus : Martínez and Halffter 1972: 58 (cited as new status, redescription).

Canthon (Glaphyrocanthon) femoralis bimaculatus : Halffter and Martínez 1977: 80 (transferred to the subgenus Glaphyrocanthon Martínez, 1948); Rivera-Cervantes and Halffter 1999: 46 (comment); Vaz-de-Mello 2000: 191 (list of species for Brazil); Medina et al. 2001: 136 (cited for Colombia); Medina et al. 2003: 64 (distribution); Morón 2003: 32 (comment).

Canthon (Glaphyrocanthon) bimaculatus : Solís and Kohlmann 2002: 52 (comment); Hamel-Leigue et al. 2006: 13 (cited for Bolivia); Krajcik 2012: 63 (complete list of species); Chamorro et al. 2018: 92 (cited for Ecuador); Vaz-de-Mello and Cupello 2018b: 55 (figures 60 and 61), 56 (lectotype designated).

Type specimens.

Canthon bimaculatus Schmidt, 1922. The lectotype (♂) is deposited at the NHRS (see Vaz-de-Mello and Cupello 2018b: 56, figure 61). Locality: Colombia, Amazonas, examined.

Lectotype (♂): "Amazonas [p, green label]", "Typ. [p]", "bimaculatus / type m. [hw]", "Coll. C. Felsche / Kauf 20, 1918 [p, green label]", "9285 / E92 + [p, blue label]", "Typus [p, red label, black margin]", "LECTOTYPE ♂ / Canthon / bimaculatus Sch. / des. F.Z. Vaz-de-Mello, 2013 [hw and p, red label, black margin]".

Distribution.

Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

Records examined.

ORELLANA: Río Yasuní Garzacocha Ishpingo, 200 m (1 specimen MUTPL); Estación Científica Yasuní PUCE, 250 m (77 specimens MQCAZ). SUCUMBÍOS: Trocha Zábalo-Güepí km 10, Reserva de Producción Faunística Cuyabeno (1 specimen MUTPL).

Temporal data.

Collected in February, May, July, and December.

Remarks.

Inhabits the lowland evergreen forests of the Amazon region from 200-220 m a.s.l. Collected with canopy fogging methods.