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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Scarab, Stag and Bess Beetles (Scarabaeoidea) » Scarab Beetles (Scarabaeidae) » Dung Beetles (Scarabaeinae) » Deltochilini » Tumblebugs (Canthon) » subgenus Canthon (Canthon subgenus Canthon) » Canthon floridanus

Species Canthon floridanus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Range · Works Cited
Dung Beetle - Canthon floridanus dung beetle - Canthon floridanus King of the Ball (looking down on a fly-as-serf) - Canthon floridanus Rolling dung ball - Canthon floridanus beetle, small, blue-black - Canthon floridanus Dung Beetle_Canthon - Canthon floridanus Canthon - Canthon floridanus Canthon floridanus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
Superfamily Scarabaeoidea (Scarab, Stag and Bess Beetles)
Family Scarabaeidae (Scarab Beetles)
Subfamily Scarabaeinae (Dung Beetles)
Tribe Deltochilini
Genus Canthon (Tumblebugs)
No Taxon (subgenus Canthon)
Species floridanus (Canthon floridanus)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Canthon imitator floridanus Brown 1946
Identification
Purple-blue sheen. See (1)
Range
sw US (se.AZ to c.TX) to c. Mexico(1)
Works Cited
1.On the identity of Canthon imitator floridanus Brown, 1946 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae).
Génier, F. 2019. The Coleopterists Bulletin 73(2): 300-306.
Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 7 July, 2019 - 5:36am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 22 July, 2021 - 9:15pm

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