Phyllophaga menetriesi (Blanchard, 1850)

Taboada-Verona, Carlos, Sermeño-Correa, Carlos, Sierra-Serrano, Oscar & Noriega, Jorge Ari, 2019, Checklist of the superfamily Scarabaeoidea (Insecta, Coleoptera) in an urban area of the Caribbean Colombia, Check List 15 (4), pp. 579-594 : 585

Phyllophaga menetriesi (Blanchard, 1850)

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Geographic distribution. Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, and Venezuela ( Solís and Morón 1998, Evans and Smith 2009). In Colombia: Antioquia, Atlántico, Caldas, Cauca, Huila, Quindío, Risaralda, and Tolima ( Pardo-Locarno et al. 2003, Pardo-Locarno and Morón 2006, Pardo-Locarno and Montoya 2007, Vallejo and Wolff 2013, García-Atencia et al. 2015).

Material examined, new record. Colombia, Sucre, Sincelejo, University of Sucre campus (09°18′52″N, 075°23′18″W), 2016/05/11, MZUSU E02528-31 (4♀). Colombia, Sucre, Sincelejo, University of Sucre campus (09°18′52″N, 075°23′18″W), 2016/05/27, MZUSU E02532-33 (2♀), MZUSU E02534 (1♂). Colombia, Sucre, Sincelejo, University of Sucre campus (09°18′52″N, 075° 23′18″W), 2016/03/30, MZUSU E02535 (1♀).

Identification. This species can be distinguished of P. obsoleta by its thickly setose tegument, the long yellowish setae; elytra brownish or orangish brown.