Chrysina, Kirby, 1828

Moore, Matthew R., Jameson, Mary L., Garner, Beulah H., Audibert, Cedric, Smith, Andrew B. T. & Seidel, Matthias, 2017, Synopsis of the pelidnotine scarabs (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Rutelinae, Rutelini) and annotated catalog of the species and subspecies, ZooKeys 666, pp. 1-349 : 1

CHRYSINA Kirby, 1828

Chrysina Kirby, 1828: 522.

Plusiotis Burmeister, 1844 synonym.

Plusiotis Burmeister, 1844: 417. [Type species. Pelidnota victorina Hope, 1841, by original designation].

Chrysina Kirby [syn. by Hawks 2001: 2].

Plusiotina Casey, 1915 synonym.

Plusiotina Casey, 1915: 84. [Type species. Plusiotina aeruginis Casey, 1915 by subsequent designation ( Hawks 2001: 2) (= Chrysina lecontei [Horn, 1882])].

Plusiotis Burmeister [syn. by Ohaus 1934b: 59].

Pelidnotopsis Ohaus, 1915b synonym.

Pelidnotopsis Ohaus, 1915b: 257. [Type species. Pelidnota plusiotina Ohaus, 1912, by monotypy].

Chrysina Kirby [syn. by Hawks 2001: 2].

Pelidnotopsis Ohaus [revised genus status by Soula 2010b: 11].

Chrysina Kirby [syn. by Moore and Jameson 2013: 381].

Type species.

Chrysina peruviana Kirby 1828: 523, by monotypy.

Gender.

Feminine.

Species.

113 species.

Remarks.

Casey (1915) did not designate a type species for the genus Plusiotina . No authors addressed this until Machatschke (1972) subsequently designated Plusiotis woodi Horn as the type of Plusiotina . This type designation was invalid based on ICZN Article 67.2 that states "A nominal species is only eligible to be fixed as the type species of a nominal genus or subgenus if it is an originally included nominal species". Plusiotis woodi Horn was not an originally included nominal species of Plusiotina and was thus invalidly designated as the type species of Plusiotina . Hawks (2001) corrected this by subsequently designating Plusiotina aeruginis Casey (= Chrysina lecontei [Horn, 1882]), an originally included nominal species of Plusiotina , as the type species of Plusiotina .