Canthon

Canthon
	Canthon smaragdulus Fabricius, 1781
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Scarabeiformia
Superfamily:	Scarabaeoidea
Family:	Scarabaeidae
Subfamily:	Scarabaeinae
Tribe:	Deltochilini
Genus:	Canthon; Hoffmannsegg 1817
Subgenera and species
	3 subgenera Boreocanthon; Canthon; Glaphyrocanthon; and about 300 species ; see text for about 10 selected ones
Synonyms
	Canthomoechus (Pereira & Martinez, 1959); Coeloscelis (Reiche, 1841); Coprobius (Latreille, 1829); Geocanthon (Pereira & Martinez, 1956); Glaphyrocanthon (Martínez, 1948); Goniocanthon (Pereira & Martinez, 1956); Hyboma (Laporte, 1840); Nesocanthon (Pereira & Martinez, 1956); Paedohyboma (Kolbe, 1893); Peltecanthon (Pereira, 1953); Petraechma (Blanchard, 1843); Pseudocanthon (Bates, 1887); Trichocanthon (Pereira & Martinez, 1959);

Canthon, the tumblebugs, is a genus of Scarabaeidae or scarab beetles in the superfamily Scarabaeoidea.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Selected species

Canthon elegans (Castelnau, 1840), a synonym for Canthon quadriguttatus Olivier, 1789

^ Entomologische Bemerkungen bei Gelegenheit der Abhandlungen über amerikanische insekten. JC Hoffmannsegg - Zoologisches Magazin, 1817
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