Canthon
Genus of beetles
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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]
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| Canthon histrio | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Subfamily: | Scarabaeinae |
| Tribe: | Deltochilini |
| Genus: | Canthon Hoffmannsegg 1817[1] |
| Subgenera and species | |
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3 subgenera
and about 300 species
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| Synonyms | |
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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
