Description of Three New Species of the Canthon indigaceus Species Group (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae)
We describe three new species: Canthon mezcalis Moctezuma, Sánchez-Huerta, and Halffter sp. nov. from the Valles Centrales region in Oaxaca, Mexico; Canthon hondurensis Moctezuma and Sánchez-Huerta sp. nov. from Honduras; and Canthon woodruffi Moctezuma and Sánchez-Huerta sp. nov. from Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Through the examination of external and genital morphology, Bayesian inference, and genetic distances based on the Kimura two-parameter model of nucleotide substitution, we confidently determined that the C. indigaceus species group is a monophyletic unit, which is integrated by a set of cryptic species.
Authors
- Víctor Moctezuma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4532-0302)
- Gonzalo Halffter (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1430-7049)
- Janet Nolasco‐Soto (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5979-6598)
- Alejandro Espinosa de los Monteros (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7742-5977)
- José Luis Sánchez-Huerta
Institutions
- Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala (MX)
- Universidad de Xalapa (MX)
- Instituto de Ecología (MX)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Taxonomy
- Published
- 2025-05-03
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/taxonomy5020026
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Scarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and Biogeography
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 4.33