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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » 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
Tumblebug rolling ball of dog feces - Canthon floridanus desert dung beetle - Canthon floridanus King of the Ball (looking down on a fly-as-serf) - Canthon floridanus Dung beetle - Canthon sp ? - Canthon floridanus Dung Beetle_Canthon - Canthon floridanus Canthon floridanus? - Canthon floridanus Canthon floridanus? - Canthon floridanus Canthon sp. - Canthon floridanus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
Superfamily Scarabaeoidea
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
Dorsum with intense purpleblue sheen; clypeal edge slightly sinuate on each side of anterior rounded clypeal teeth, median emargination acutely angular and arcuate; elytral granulation finer and flatter; metatarsus with a single row of setae along ventral edge of tarsomeres 2–5(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 17 March, 2024 - 1:50pm

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