Canthon (s. l.) septemmaculatus (Latreille, 1807) Ateuchus septem-maculatus Latreille 1807b: 180 (Mexico) = Canthon coronatus Perty 1830: 37 (Brazil) = Canthon cincticolle Lucas 1859: 99 (Ecuador) = Canthon septemmaculatus var. linearis A. Schmidt 1920: 115 (none) Distribution. Suriname: A. Schmidt 1920: 114, 1922a: 80; Blackwelder 1944: 201 (as C. septemmaculatum); MHCN; RMNH; CLVV. French Guiana: Harold 1868a: 51; Gillet 1911b: 33; A. Schmidt 1920: 114, 1922a: 80; Blackwelder 1944: 201 (as C. septemmaculatum). “Guianas”: Vulcano and Pereira 1964: 628. Brazil: Perty 1830: 37 (as C. coronatus); Lucas 1859: 98 (as C. coronatum); Harold 1868a: 51; Gillet 1911b: 33; A. Schmidt 1920: 114, 1922a: 80; Blackwelder 1944: 201 (as C. quinquemaculatum var. cincticolle; as C. septemmaculatum); Vulcano and Pereira 1964: 628; Vaz-de-Mello 2000: 191 (as C. (incertae sedis) septemmaculatum). Venezuela (EO): Harold 1868a: 51; A. Schmidt 1922a: 80; Blackwelder 1944: 201 (as C. septemmaculatum); Vulcano and Pereira 1964: 628; Ferrer-Paris et al. 2013: 108 (as C. linearis; as C. septemmaculatus) (EO). “Amazon Basin”: Gillet 1911b: 32 (as C. quinquemaculatus var. cincticollis); A. Schmidt 1920: 114. Other: Latreille 1807b: 180 (Mexico - as Ateuchus septem-maculatus); Lucas 1859: 99 (Ecuador, Peru - as C. cincticolle); Harold 1868a: 51 (Colombia, Panama); Gillet 1911b: 33 (Bolivia, Colombia, Panama); A. Schmidt 1920: 114, 115 (Bolivia, Colombia, Panama, Paraguay, Peru - as C. septemmaculatus; none - as C. septemmaculatus var. linearis), 1922a: 80 (Bolivia, Colombia, Panama, Paraguay, Peru); Balthasar 1939e: 196 (Nearly whole South America), 1941c: 342 (Nearly whole South America, Peru); Blackwelder 1944: 201 (Argentina, Colombia, Paraguay - as C. quinquemaculatum var. cincticolle; Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago - as C. septemmaculatum); Vulcano and Pereira 1964: 628 (Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, Paraguay, Peru); Medina et al. 2001: 136 (Colombia); Noriega et al. 2007: 82 (Colombia). Note. Canthon septemmaculatus is variable in color, color pattern, size and luster (Harold 1868a: 51), and as a consequence a number of varieties, some of them raised to subspecific rank by some authors, have been described. In the absence of a good synopsis, we treat them all as synonyms here. Likewise, some present synonyms that were once described as valid species were variably treated as varieties and subspecies. In addition to this, C. cincticolle Lucas, 1859 has been treated as a variety (Vaz-de-Mello 2000: 191) and a subspecies (Halffter and Martínez 1977: 71) of C. septemmaculatus as well as a variety of C. quinquemaculatus (Harold 1868a: 35; Gillet 1911b: 32; A. Schmidt 1920: 117, 1922a: 79; Balthasar 1939e: 210; Blackwelder 1944: 201; Vulcano and Pereira 1964: 627).

Published as part of Hielkema, Auke J. & Hielkema, Meindert A., 2019, An annotated checklist of the Scarabaeoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Guianas, pp. 1-306 in Insecta Mundi 732 (732) on page 72, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3678492