Canthon bicolor Castelnau, 1840

Rosa, Cecilia Lozano De La, Cupello, Mario & Vaz-De-Mello, Fernando Z., 2024, The dung beetles of Venezuela (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae): catalogue and updated distribution, European Journal of Taxonomy 959 (1), pp. 1-272 : 35

Canthon bicolor Castelnau, 1840

Fig. 15A

Canthon bicolor Castelnau, 1840: 69 (original description). Type locality: French Guiana. Name-bearing type: lectotype (OUMNH), designated by Nunes et al. (2018), examined by FZVM.

Canthon bicolor – Harold 1868a: 14, 71 (key, redescription); 1869d: 990 (catalogue, cited for Cayenne). — Gillet 1911b: 28 (catalogue). — Schmidt 1922: 64, 73 (distribution). — Balthasar 1939a: 189 (key). — Blackwelder 1944: 198 (checklist). — Vulcano & Pereira 1964: 604 (catalogue). — Halffter & Martínez 1977: 39, 70 (key, revision). — Forsyth & Gill 1993: 70 (list for French Guiana). — Feer 2000: 32 (list for French Guiana); 2008: 56, 62 (ecology); 2013: 766 (list for French Guiana). — Vaz-de-Mello 2000: 191 (checklist for Brazil). — Feer & Pincebourde 2005: 30 (list). — Brûle et al. 2011a: 193 (list); 2014: 183 (list). — Larsen 2011: 98 (list for Suriname); 2013: 96 (list for Palumeu River, Suriname). — Price & Feer 2012: 327 (list). — Feer & Boissier 2015: 169 (list). Canthon (Goniocanthon) bicolor – Nunes et al. 2018: 17 (revision).

Distribution

Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, and Brazil ( Nunes et al. 2018).

Subregions of Venezuela

System of hills and low piedmont mountains of the Guiana Shield and System of low mountains and hills Imataca-Cuyuní del Escudo Northeast Guiana.

Literature records

Nunes et al. 2018: 17 ( Venezuela: Bolívar).

Figures

Fig. 15. Species distribution. A. Canthon bicolor Castelnau, 1840. B. Canthon cyanellus LeConte, 1859. Green diamond = CEMT collection data; black circle = literature data.