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Canthidium (Canthidium) cupreum

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Canthidium (Canthidium) cupreum (Blanchard, 1846)

Chaeridium cupreum Blanchard, 1846: 169 [transferred to Canthidium by Harold 1869a: 1004 (see also Harold 1869b: 57); here transferred to the subgenus Canthidium; type species of Eucanthidium]. Type locality: Bolivia: Santa Cruz: Vallegrande (“province de Valle Grande”). Type material: Syntypes probably at MNHN. Distribution: Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina (Martínez & Halffter 1986a; including the type locality of C. orbiculatum).

Choeridium orbiculatum Lucas, 1859: 103 (synonymized with C. cupreum by Gillet 1911: 55). Type material: Peru: Loreto: Ucayali: Sarayacu (“mission de Sarayacu”). Type material: Location of syntypes unknown.

Canthidium aureolum Harold, 1867: 83 [synonymized with C. orbiculatum Lucas, 1859 by Harold 1869b: 57].

Type locality: Brazil: the Amazon region (“Die brasilianische, auch in dem Gebiete des Amazonenstromes von Bates gesammelte Art [...]”). Type material: Location of syntypes unknown (possibly at MNHN—ex Harold collection).

Notes

Published as part of Cupello, Mario, 2018, On the types species of the New World dung beetle genus Canthidium Erichson, 1847 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae), with an annotated checklist of species, pp. 451-486 in Zootaxa 4388 (4) on pages 457-458, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4388.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1189072

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Blanchard
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Scarabaeidae
Genus
Canthidium
Species
cupreum
Taxon rank
species
Type status
syntype
Taxonomic concept label
Canthidium (Canthidium) cupreum (Blanchard, 1846) sec. Cupello, 2018

References

  • Blanchard, E. (1846) Livaisons 79 & 80. In: Blanchard, E. & Brulle, G. A. (1837 - 1846) Voyage dans L'Amerique Meridionale (le Bresil, la Republique orientale de L'Uruguay, la Republique Argentine, la Patagone, la Republique du Chili, la Republique de Bolivia, la Republique du Perou), execute pendant les annees 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 et 1833, par Alcide D'Orbigny. Tome Sixieme. 2. e partie: insectes. P. Bertrand, Paris & Ve. Lerrault, Strasbourg, pp. 153 - 168 & 169 - 184. [publication dates follow Evenhuis (1997 b: 573) and Sherborn and Woodward (1901: 389), who based their dating on Wiegmann's Archiv fur Naturgeschichte. It is noteworthy, however, that Bousquet (2016: 77) dated those livraisons from 1845 following the information stated on their wrappers, which Evenhuis (1997 a: 12) argued was not a reliable source]
  • Harold, E. (1869 a) Catalogus coleopterorum. Hucusque descriptorum, synonymicus et systematicus. Tom. IV. Scarabaeidae. Sumptu E. H. Gummi, Munich, pp. 979 - 1346.
  • Harold, E. (1869 b) Ueber Coprophage Lamellicornien mit besonderer Berucksichtigung der Pariser Sammlungen. Coleopterologische Hefte, 5, 46 - 70.
  • Gillet, J. J. E. (1911) Coleopterorum catalogus. Pars 38: Scarabaeidae: Coprinae I. W. Junk, Berlin, 100 pp.