Publication Type: | Journal Article |
Year of Publication: | 2002 |
Authors: | J. Cook |
Journal: | Coleopterists Bulletin |
Volume: | 56 |
Pagination: | 3-96 |
Date Published: | Dec |
Type of Article: | Article |
ISBN Number: | 0010-065X |
Abstract: | The Neotropical genus Cryptocanthon Balthasar (Scarabaemae: Canthonini) is revised. Diagnoses, descriptions and a key to the 35 species are presented, including 22 new species: C. bochilae, C. howdeni, C. montebello, C. ocosingo and C. rayonensis from Mexico; C. osaensis and C. solisi from Costa Rica; C. denticulum and C. lobipygus from Panama; C. escobari, C. foveatus, C. medinae and C. pumilus from Colombia; C. andersoni, C. gilli and C. punctatus from Venezuela; C. galbao from French Guiana; C. curticrinus, C. genieri, C. napoensis, C. otonga and C. urguensis from Ecuador. All of the known species of Cryptocanthon are inhabitants of wet forest litter. A phylogenetic hypothesis and biogeographical discussion are included, Based on the phylogenetic analysis, four species groups were established: a northern South America relict species group, an Amazonian-Guianan lowland species group, a middle American species group, and a northern Andean species group. The diversity and level of endemicity of Cryptocanthon is consistent with other small-sized scarab beetles. |
URL: | <Go to ISI>://000180160400001 |
A revision of the neotropical genus Cryptocanthon Balthasar (Coleoptera : Scarabaeidae : Scarabaeinae)
Taxonomic name:
Cryptocanthon peckorum (Scarabaeinae), Cryptocanthon campbellorum (Scarabaeinae), Cryptocanthon (Scarabaeinae), Cryptocanthon altus (Scarabaeinae), Cryptocanthon andersoni (Scarabaeinae), Cryptocanthon bochilae (Scarabaeinae), Cryptocanthon brevisetosus (Scarabaeinae), Cryptocanthon chiriquinus (Scarabaeinae), Cryptocanthon cristobalensis (Scarabaeinae), Cryptocanthon curticrinis (Scarabaeinae), Cryptocanthon denticulum (Scarabaeinae), Cryptocanthon escobari (Scarabaeinae), Cryptocanthon foveatus (Scarabaeinae), Cryptocanthon galbao (Scarabaeinae), Cryptocanthon genieri (Scarabaeinae), Cryptocanthon gilli (Scarabaeinae), Cryptocanthon howdeni (Scarabaeinae), Cryptocanthon humidus (Scarabaeinae), Cryptocanthon lindemanae (Scarabaeinae), Cryptocanthon lobatus (Scarabaeinae), Cryptocanthon lobipygus (Scarabaeinae), Cryptocanthon medinae (Scarabaeinae), Cryptocanthon montebello (Scarabaeinae), Cryptocanthon napoensis (Scarabaeinae), Cryptocanthon nebulinus (Scarabaeinae), Cryptocanthon newtoni (Scarabaeinae), Cryptocanthon ocosingo (Scarabaeinae), Cryptocanthon osaensis (Scarabaeinae), Cryptocanthon otonga (Scarabaeinae), Cryptocanthon paradoxus (Scarabaeinae), Cryptocanthon parvus (Scarabaeinae), Cryptocanthon pumilus (Scarabaeinae), Cryptocanthon punctatus (Scarabaeinae), Cryptocanthon rayonensis (Scarabaeinae), Cryptocanthon solisi (Scarabaeinae), Cryptocanthon urguensis (Scarabaeinae)