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Canthon
Canthon histrio
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Scarabaeidae
Subfamily:	Scarabaeinae
Tribe:	Deltochilini
Genus:	Canthon Hoffmannsegg 1817
Subgenera and species
3 subgenera Boreocanthon Canthon Glaphyrocanthon and about 300 species see text for about 10 selected ones
Synonyms
Canthomoechus Pereira & Martinez, 1959 Coeloscelis Reiche, 1841 Coprobius Latreille, 1829 Geocanthon Pereira & Martinez, 1956 Glaphyrocanthon Martínez, 1948 Goniocanthon Pereira & Martinez, 1956 Hyboma Laporte, 1840 Nesocanthon Pereira & Martinez, 1956 Paedohyboma Kolbe, 1893 Peltecanthon Pereira, 1953 Petraechma Blanchard, 1843 Pseudocanthon Bates, 1887 Trichocanthon Pereira & Martinez, 1959

Canthon, the tumblebugs, is a Nearctic-Neotropical genus of Scarabaeidae or scarab beetles in the superfamily Scarabaeoidea.

Selected species

• Canthon aberrans Harold, 1868
• Canthon acutiformis Balthasar, 1939
• Canthon acutoides Schmidt, 1922
• Canthon acutus Harold, 1868
• Canthon aequinoctialis Harold 1868
• Canthon angularis Harold, 1868
• Canthon angustatus Harold, 1867
• Canthon histrio Lepeletier & Serville, 1828
• Canthon quadriguttatus Olivier, 1789
• Canthon smaragdulus Fabricius, 1781
• Canthon zuninoi Rivera-Cervantes & Halffter, 1999

Names brought to synonymy

• Canthon elegans (Laporte, 1840), a synonym for Canthon quadriguttatus Olivier, 1789

See also

• List of Canthon species

References

1. Entomologische Bemerkungen bei Gelegenheit der Abhandlungen über amerikanische insekten. JC Hoffmannsegg - Zoologisches Magazin, 1817
2. "Canthon - gbif.org".
3. "ITIS Standard Report - Error". Archived from the original on 2009-03-12. Retrieved 2016-07-22.
4. "Canthon - Nomen.at - animals and plants".
5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-03-27. Retrieved 2011-10-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

External links

• Data related to Canthon at Wikispecies
• Media related to Canthon at Wikimedia Commons
• "Canthon". The Encyclopedia of Life.
• Canthon at insectoid.info

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