Kaliwatan sa bakukangon ang Catharsius lepineyi.^[1] Una ning gihulagway ni Antoine Boucomont ni adtong 1934.^[2] Ang Catharsius lepineyi sakop sa kahenera nga Catharsius, ug kabanay nga Scarabaeidae.^[1][3]

Kini nga matang hayop na sabwag sa:

• Aprika
  • Mauritania
  • Senegal
  • Mali
  • Burkina Faso
  • Chad
  • Niger

Walay nalista nga matang nga sama niini.^[1]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Roskov Y., Kunze T., Orrell T., Abucay L., Paglinawan L., Culham A., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Decock W., De Wever A., Didžiulis V. (ed) (2019). "Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2019 Annual Checklist". Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X. TaxonID: 54728224. Retrieved 2019-11-11. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
2. ↑ Boucomont A. (1934) Mission J. de Lepiney au Soudan français, 1933-1934. 4e Note , Bulletin de la Société de Sciences Naturelles et Physiques de Maroc. Rabat 14(1-3):25-27
3. ↑ Schoolmeesters P. (2019). Scarabs: World Scarabaeidae Database (version Jan 2019). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2019 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Ower G., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds.). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2019. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X.