Sinapisoma minutum Boucomont 1928a: 3
An annotated checklist of the Scarabaeoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Guianas
Hielkema, Auke J.
Hielkema, Meindert A.
Insecta Mundi
2019
2019-10-25
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732
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4XJFC
Boucomont, 1928
Boucomont
1928
Laporte
1840
[192,703,750,774]
Insecta
Scarabaeidae
Sinapisoma
Animalia
Coleoptera
84
83
Arthropoda
species
minuta
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 minutawith 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 typeof C. minutuscannot 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. minutusa synonym of S. minuta. We consider C. minutaa species inquirendum. See also the remark in Halffter and Martínez (1968).