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Canthidium gigas Balthasar 1939

  • 1. Biology Centre ASCR, Institute of Entomology, Branišovská 31, CZ- 370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic; e-mail: bezdek @ entu. cas. cz
  • 2. Department of Entomology, National Museum, Kunratice 1, CZ- 148 00 Praha 4, Czech Republic; e-mail: jiri _ hajek @ nm. cz

Description

Canthidium gigas Balthasar, 1939

Canthidium gigas Balthasar, 1939a: 127.

The holotype is deposited in NMPC (ex coll. V. Balthasar):

HOLOTYPE (unsexed specimen): ‘Cayenne [p, green label] // Coll. C. Felsche / Kauf 20. 1918 [p, green label] //

Typus [p, red label, black margin] // C. gigas / sp. n. [hw] / Dr. V. Balthasar det. [p] // gigas m. [hw, green label,

black margin]’.

Current status. Canthidium (Canthidium) gigas Balthasar, 1939, see MARTÍNEZ & HALFFTER (1986).

Notes

Published as part of Bezděk, Aleš, Hájek, Jiří & Ascr, Biology Centre, 2012, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 297-334 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52 (1) on page 302, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5330401

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Balthasar
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Scarabaeidae
Genus
Canthidium
Species
gigas
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Canthidium gigas Balthasar, 1939 sec. Bezděk, Hájek & Ascr, 2012

References

  • BALTHASAR V. 1939 a: Neue Canthidium-Arten. Entomologisches Nachrichtenblatt 13: 111 - 140.
  • MARTINEZ A. & HALFFTER G. 1986: Situacion del genero Canthidium Erichson (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeidae). Acta Zoologica Mexicana (Nueva Serie) 17: 19 - 40.