Pelidnota perplexa Hardy, 1975

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 perplexa Hardy, 1975

Pelidnota (Pelidnota) perplexa Hardy, 1975: 7, 15-16 [original combination].

Pelidnota perplexa Hardy [removal of subgeneric classification by Soula 2009: 69-70].

Distribution.

MEXICO: Hidalgo, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Veracruz ( Hardy 1975, Morón 1993, 1994, Morón et al. 1997, Delgado-Castillo and Márquez 2006, Krajcik 2008, Soula 2009).

Types.

1 ♂ holotype of Pelidnota (Pelidnota) perplexa at USNM ( Hardy 1975); 1 ♀ allotype and 1 paratype at CAS ( Hardy 1975); 2 paratypes at CNC (Fig. 77 ) ( Hardy 1975).

Figures

Figure 77. Pelidnota (Pelidnota) perplexa Hardy (valid name Pelidnota perplexa Hardy) paratype female from CNC. A Dorsal habitus B Lateral habitus C Specimen labels.