Scybalocanthon sexspilotus
Creators: name: Rosa, Cecilia Lozano De La
name: Cupello, Mario
name: Vaz-De-Mello, Fernando Z.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Scybalocanthon
Scybalocanthon sexspilotus

description: Scybalocanthon sexspilotus (Guérin-Méneville, 1855)
Fig. 73B
Canthon sexspilotum Guérin-Méneville, 1855: 587 (original description). Type locality: Brazil: Amazonas: Iranduba, Amazon River, Marchantaria island, 59°58′ W, 3°15′ S, varzea. Name-bearing type: neotype (CEMT), designated by Silva & Valois (2019), examined by CL and FZVM.
Canthon rufulus Harold, 1868a: 13, 54 (original description). Type locality: the banks of the Amazon River, no specified country (Harold 1868a). Name-bearing type: unknown whereabouts (Silva & Valois 2019).
Canthon imitans Harold, 1868a: 13, 56 (original description). Type locality: Venezuela. Name-bearing type: unknown whereabouts (Silva & Valois 2019).
Canthon sexspilotus – Harold 1868a: 140 (monograph); 1869d: 994 (catalogue). — Bates 1887: 28 (comments). — Gillet 1911b: 33 (catalogue). — Schmidt 1922: 65, 80 (distribution). — Balthasar 1939a: 193 (redescription, monograph). — Vulcano & Pereira 1964: 630 (catalogue); 1967: 552 (key). — Krajcik 2006: 31 (checklist); 2012: 64 (checklist). — Silva & Valois 2019: 333 (cited).
Canthon rufulus – Harold 1869d: 994 (cited as synonym of Canthon sexspilotus). — Gillet 1911b: 33 (catalog, cited as synonym of C. sexspilotus). — Silva & Valois 2019: 333 (cited as synonym of Scybalocanthon sexspilotus).
Canthon imitans – Harold 1869d: 991 (catalogue). — Gillet 1911b: 30 (catalogue). — Schmidt 1922: 65, 75 (distribution, redescription). — Balthasar 1939a: 193 (redescription). — Blackwelder 1944: 199 (checklist). — Roze 1955: 41 (checklist). — Krajcik 2006: 27 (checklist); 2012: 63 (checklist). — Silva & Valois 2019: 333 (cited as synonym of S. sexspilotus).
Canthon sexspilotum – Blackwelder 1944: 201 (checklist).
Canthon rufulum – Blackwelder 1944: 201 (checklist, cited as synonym of C. sexspilotum).
Scybalocanthon imitans – Pereira & Martínez 1956a: 114–115 (key, new combination). — Vulcano & Pereira 1964: 638 (catalogue). — Halffter & Martínez 1977: 68 (list). — Vaz-de-Mello 2000: 194 (checklist). — Ratcliffe et al. 2015: 196 (cited for Peru). — Silva & Valois 2019: 333 (cited as synonym of S. sexspilotus).
Scybalocanthon sexpilotus – Halffter & Martínez 1977: 67 (list). — Vaz-de-Mello 2000: 194 (checklist). — Medina et al. 2001: 137 (checklist for Colombia). — Ratcliffe et al. 2015: 196 (cited for Peru). — Silva & Valois 2019: 333 (revision); 2019: 333 (revision). — Hielkema & Hielkema 2019: 82 (catalogue for the Guianas).
Material examined
VENEZUELA ‒ Apure • 1 ♂, 1 ♀; San Fernando; 7°53′38″ N, 67°28′23″ W; 26 Aug. 2006; curso NM 2006 leg.; CEMT. ‒ Táchira • 1 ♀; Isla de Betancurt; 29 May 1986; D. Havranek leg.; CEMT.
Distribution
Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil (Silva & Valois 2019),
Subregion of Venezuela
Plains.
Literature records
Harold 1868a: 56 (Venezuela); 1869d: 991 (Venezuela). — Gillet 1911b: 30 (Venezuela). — Schmidt 1922: 75 (Venezuela). — Balthasar 1939a: 193 (Venezuela). — Blackwelder 1944: 199 (Venezuela). — Krajcik 2012: 63 (Venezuela). — Pereira & Martínez 1956a: 115 (Venezuela). — Vulcano & Pereira 1964: 638 (Venezuela); 1967:554 (Venezuela). — Silva & Valois 2019: 333 (Venezuela: Apure, Barinas and Táchira).
description: Published as part of Rosa, Cecilia Lozano De La, Cupello, Mario & Vaz-De-Mello, Fernando Z., 2024, The dung beetles of Venezuela (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae): catalogue and updated distribution, pp. 1-272 in European Journal of Taxonomy 959 (1) on pages 195-197, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.959.2677, http://zenodo.org/record/13945464