Canthon sp.

Family: Scarabaeidae
Order: Coleoptera
Class: Insecta
Phylum / Division: Arthropoda
Kingdom: Animalia

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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

Source: Wikipedia, article Canthon sp.. Content adapted from Wikipedia, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Accessed on 18/07/2026.

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Capilla del Monte
Córdoba
Argentina
03/15/2018
Eduardo Nadal

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748029

15/03/2018

Argentina

Córdoba

Base del cerro Uritorco, Capilla del Monte

Eduardo Nadal