Pelidnota polita polita (Latreille, 1812)

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

Pelidnota polita polita (Latreille, 1812)

Rutela polita Latreille, 1812: 134 [original combination].

Pelidnota polita (Latreille) [new combination by Burmeister 1844: 552].

Pelidnota (Pelidnota) polita (Latreille) [new subgeneric combination by Ohaus 1918: 24-25].

Pelidnota polita polita (Latreille) [removal of subgeneric classification and new subspecific status by Soula 2009: 44-45].

Distribution.

BRAZIL ( Ohaus 1918, 1934b, Machatschke 1972). COLOMBIA: Atlántico, Boyacá, Chocó, Cundinamarca, Magdalena, Meta (WBWC) ( Ohaus 1918, 1934b, Machatschke 1972, Restrepo et al. 2003, Neita-Moreno 2011, García-Atencia and Martínez-Hernández 2015, López-García et al. 2015). PANAMA: Colón, Former Canal Zone, Oeste ( Ohaus 1918, 1934b, Blackwelder 1944, Machatschke 1972, Hardy 1975, Ratcliffe 2002, López-García et al. 2015). PERU ( Latreille 1812, Germar 1815, Ohaus 1918, 1934b, Machatschke 1972, Hardy 1975, Krajcik 2008, Soula 2009, Ratcliffe et al. 2015). VENEZUELA ( Ohaus 1918, 1934b, Machatschke 1972, López-García et al. 2015).

Types.

1 ♂ neotype of Rutela polita at MNHN ( Soula 2009).