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Genus of beetles
Canthon
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Canthon histrio
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Scientific classification
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Domain:
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Eukaryota
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Kingdom:
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Animalia
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Phylum:
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Arthropoda
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Class:
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Insecta
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Order:
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Coleoptera
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Family:
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Scarabaeidae
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Subfamily:
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Scarabaeinae
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Tribe:
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Deltochilini
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Genus:
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Canthon
Hoffmannsegg 1817
[1]
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Subgenera and species
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3 subgenera
and about 300 species
see text for about 10 selected ones
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Synonyms
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- 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
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Canthon, the tumblebugs, is a Nearctic-Neotropical
[2] genus of
Scarabaeidae or scarab beetles in the superfamily
Scarabaeoidea.
[3]
[4]
[5]
Selected species
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Canthon aberrans Harold, 1868
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Canthon acutiformis Balthasar, 1939
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Canthon acutoides Schmidt, 1922
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Canthon acutus Harold, 1868
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Canthon aequinoctialis Harold 1868
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Canthon angularis Harold, 1868
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Canthon angustatus Harold, 1867
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Canthon histrio Lepeletier & Serville, 1828
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Canthon quadriguttatus Olivier, 1789
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Canthon smaragdulus Fabricius, 1781
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Canthon zuninoi Rivera-Cervantes & Halffter, 1999
- Names brought to synonymy
See also
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