Melanocanthon is a genus of dung beetles in the family Scarabaeidae. There are at least 4 described species in Melanocanthon.Moctezuma V, Sánchez-Huerta JL, Halffter G (2017). "Two new species of the Phanaeus endymion species group (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae)". ZooKeys 702: 113-135.
Species Melanocanthon bispinatus (Robinson, 1941) (tumble bug) Melanocanthon granulifer (Schmidt, 1920) Melanocanthon nigricornis (Say, 1823) Melanocanthon punctaticollis (Schaeffer, 1915)
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Further reading
Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida .
Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.