Canthidium (Neocanthidium) centrale Boucomont, 1928

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 : 31-33

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scientific name

Canthidium (Neocanthidium) centrale Boucomont, 1928
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Canthidium (Neocanthidium) centrale Boucomont, 1928 View in CoL Plate 10A

Canthidium centrale Boucomont, 1928b: 203 (original description. Type locality: Panama, Chiriqui, Guyane française: St-Jean du Maroni, St-Laurent du Maroni, Guyane hollandaise, Surinam).

Canthidium centrale : Blackwelder 1944: 205 (list, distribution); Vulcano and Pereira 1967: 593 (characters in key); Howden and Young 1981: 74 (characters in key), 75 (redescription); Medina et al. 2001: 137 (cited for Colombia); Ratcliffe 2002: 14 (cited for Panama); Solís and Kohlmann 2004: 9 (characters in key), 33 (redescription); Solís and Kohlmann 2012: 5 (cited for Costa Rica); Krajcik, 2012: 62 (complete list of species).

Canthidium (Canthidium) centrale : Martínez and Halffter 1986: 26 (cited for Ecuador, Panama, Guatemala, Mexico); Morón 2003: 55 (redescription, cited for Mexico); Carvajal et al. 2011: 318-319 (cited for Ecuador); Chamorro et al. 2018: 92 (cited for Ecuador).

Canthidium (Neocanthidium) centrale : Cupello 2018: 467 (transferred to the subgenus Canthidium (Neocanthidium) Martínez, Halffter & Pereira, 1964. Distribution, cited for Ecuador); Chamorro et al. 2018: 92 (cited for Ecuador).

Neocanthidium martinezi Edmonds & Halffter, 1978: 319 (original description); Solís and Kohlmann 2004: 33 (synonym of Canthidium centrale Boucomont, 1928); Solís and Kohlmann 2012: 5 (cited as synonym of Canthidium centrale Boucomont, 1928); Cupello, 2018: 467 (comment).

Type specimens.

Canthidium centrale Boucomont, 1928. The holotype (sex unknown) is deposited at the MNHN (see Solís and Kohlmann 2004: 33). Locality: Panama, Chiriqui. Not examined.

Neocanthidium martinezi Edmonds & Halffter, 1978. Type material not examined.

Distribution.

Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panama, and Mexico.

Records examined.

ESMERALDAS: Majua (1 specimen CEMT); Playa de Oro (1 specimen CEMT); Pote (1 specimen CEMT). LOS RÍOS: Río Palenque Station (1 specimen CEMT).

Temporal data.

Collected in February and March.

Remarks.

Inhabits coastal lowland evergreen forests. Collected with pitfall traps baited with human feces.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

Genus

Canthidium