Canthidium (scarab beetle)

Abundance: 0.00 to 65.08% (median 6.00%)

Latitudinal range: -33.9° to 21.6°

Habitats: desert/xeric shrubland (2), temperate savanna (2), tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest (14), tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest (38), tropical/subtropical savanna (7)

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Found in 63 samples

Bolivia: Parque Nacional Noel Kempff Mercado (1997 forest samples)

Brazil: Minimum Critical Size of Ecosystems Project (contiguous forest), Fazenda Encanto (human feces baited), Fazenda Encanto (bovine meat baited), Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (diurnal traps), Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (nocturnal traps), Viçosa (cow dung), Ilha Solteira, Charles Darwin Ecological Refuge (open habitat), Charles Darwin Ecological Refuge (forest habitat), Campos Novos (feces baited), Campos Novos (carrion baited), Barreiro Protection Area (cerrado), Barreiro Protection Area (forest), Fazenda Canchim, Manga Rosa, Morro do Elefante, Morro do Cerrito, Campus da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Bagé (Eragrostis plana), Bagé (Eucalyptus spp.), Minimum Critical Size of Ecosystems Project (clearcuts), Minimum Critical Size of Ecosystems Project (1 ha forest fragment), Minimum Critical Size of Ecosystems Project (10 ha forest fragment), Floresta Nacional Contendas do Sincorá (dry season), Floresta Nacional Contendas do Sincorá (wet season), Area de Proteção Ambiental de Cafuringa (feces-baited), Guajará Mirim e Nova Mamoré (baço bovino), Mata Seca State Park (December)

Colombia: Elí Farm (howler monkey dung baited), Elí Farm (woolly monkey dung baited), Piritáma II, Serranía de Coroza (dry forest, rainy season), Serranía de Coroza (livestock use area, rainy season)

Ecuador: Chiruisla Station, Centro Cientifico de Rio Palenque (May 1975), Centro Cientifico de Rio Palenque (February 1976), Centro Cientifico de Rio Palenque (July 1976)

French Guiana: Paracou (roadside forest), Nouragues Biological Field Station (hour 21), Nouragues Research Station (2003 FIT/creek), Paracou (interior forest), Nouragues Research Station (November 2007), Amazone Nature Lodge (February 2009), Mont Grand Matoury National Nature Reserve (February 2009)

Mexico: Los Tuxtlas (coati dung/nocturnal), Los Tuxtlas (continuous forest), Los Tuxtlas (howlers present), Los Tuxtlas (howlers absent), Real Minero, Santa Rosa, San Martín Volcano (forest fragments), Vicente Guerrero (IF), San Martín Volcano (forest-pasture edges), Los Tuxtlas (mosaic habitat), Los Tuxtlas (forest fragments), San Fernando (tropical deciduous forest), Tepexco (June)

Panama: El Hato del Volcan (large traps), El Hato del Volcan (small traps)

Suriname: Kutari

Uruguay: Estación Experimental del Secretariado Uruguayo de la Lana (bovine dung), Estación Experimental del Secretariado Uruguayo de la Lana (ovine dung)

See also Canthidium 'bicolor', Canthidium angusticeps, Canthidium ardens, Canthidium aterrimum, Canthidium aurifex, Canthidium barbacenicum, Canthidium bokermanni, Canthidium breve, Canthidium cavifrons, Canthidium centrale, Canthidium chrysis, Canthidium cupreum, Canthidium curvipes, Canthidium decoratum, Canthidium deyrollei, Canthidium dispar, Canthidium dohrni, Canthidium funebre, Canthidium gerstaeckeri, Canthidium gracilipes, Canthidium guyanense, Canthidium haroldi, Canthidium humerale, Canthidium kirschi, Canthidium laetum, Canthidium latipleurum, Canthidium latum, Canthidium lentum, Canthidium leucopterum, Canthidium lividus, Canthidium manni, Canthidium marseuli, Canthidium martinezi, Canthidium moestum, Canthidium mutabilis, Canthidium onitoides, Canthidium ornatus, Canthidium pallidoalatum, Canthidium pinotoides, Canthidium planovultum, Canthidium podagricus, Canthidium pseudoperceptibile, Canthidium pseudopuncticolle, Canthidium puncticolle, Canthidium quadridens, Canthidium ruficolle, Canthidium seminitens, Canthidium sp., Canthidium sp. 1, Canthidium sp. 10, Canthidium sp. 13, Canthidium sp. 15, Canthidium sp. 2, Canthidium sp. 3, Canthidium sp. 4, Canthidium sp. 5, Canthidium sp. 6, Canthidium sp. 7, Canthidium sp. 8, Canthidium sp. 9, Canthidium sp. A, Canthidium sp. f, Canthidium tenebrosum, Canthidium trinodosum, Canthidium tuberifrons, Canthidium variolosum, Canthidium vespertinum, Canthidium viride