Cantao (genus)
Cantao est genus superfamiliae Pentatomoideorum familiae Scutelleridarum.

Descriptio
Corpus elongatum ovale; caput elongatum, marginibus lateralibus paene rectis et carinatis; pronotum angulis posterolateralibus in basi scutelli productum; scutellum in basi binis profundis foveis; peritreme magnum, plurimum metapleuritis occupans, evaporatorio imminuto.

Distributio
Cantao distribuitur in Indomalaesia, Wallacea, Nova Guinea, Australia.

Species
Cantao ocellatus (Thunberg, 1784)
Cantao variabilis (Montrouzier, 1855) 
Cantao purpuratus (Westwood, 1837)  
Cantao parentum (White, 1839) 
Cantao africanus Horváth, 1892
†?Cantao yamanai Fujiyama, 1967 (fossile)

Notae

Bibliographia
Tsai, Jing-Fu,  Dávid Rédei, Geng-Fang Yeh, et Man-Miao Yang. 1991. Jewel bugs of Taiwan (Heteroptera: Scutelleridae). National Chung Hsing University. ISBN 978986028723.3

Scutelleridae
Taxa Amyot
Taxa Serville
Taxa 1843