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Canthon acutoides Schmidt 1922

Year: 2024

Type: other

Abstract: Canthon acutoides Schmidt, 1922 Canthon acutoides Schmidt, 1922: (original description). Type locality: Colombia. Name-bearing type: lectotype (NHRS), designated by Vaz-de-Mello & Cupello (2018), examined by FZVM. Note: though, in the original description, Schmidt (1922) indicated the species as present in Venezuela in addition to Colombia, neither we nor Vaz-de-Mello & Cupello (2018) could locate any Venezuelan syntypes (now lectotype and paralectotypes) in collections, solely Colombian ones. All the other authors who have ascribed the species to Venezuela (see below) seem to have done so relying on Schmidt’s record. In the absence of specimens originating from the country, we consider the presence of Canthon acutoides in Venezuela as dubious. Distribution Supposedly Colombia and Venezuela (Schoolmeesters 2023). Literature records Schmidt 1922: 72, 82 (Venezuela). — Balthasar 1939a: 208 (Venezuela). — Blackwelder 1944: 198 (Venezuela). — Vulcano & Pereira 1964: 660 (Venezuela); 1967: 553, 562 (Venezuela).

Source: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13945931

Authors: Rosa, Cecilia Lozano De La, Cupello, Mario, Vaz-De-Mello, Fernando Z.

Institutions: Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Texas A&M University, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso

Language: English

Topic: Scarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and Biogeography

Subfield: Paleontology

Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W6893071381

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