Patatra Soula, 2008

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

Patatra Soula, 2008

Type species.

Patatra mathani Soula, 2008.

Species.

1 species; length 15.5 mm.

Patatra mathani is metallic green, the internal protarsal claw is widely toothed and other claws are simple, and the parameres share some similarity to species of Chlorota Burmeister or Pseudothyridium Soula (anticheirine scarabs). Soula (2008, 2009) described this monotypic genus based on one male specimen from Pará (Brazil), and he placed it in the tribe Rutelini . He created a case of double homonymy by describing the genus and species identically in two publications ( Soula 2008, 2009, see Moore and Jameson 2013). He noted that the taxon possessed characters of both pelidnotines scarabs (complete pronotal basal bead) as well as anticheirine scarabs (scutellum wider than long in the middle, male medial tarsal claws split and other claws simple). The genus ultimately was classified in the pelidnotine scarabs ( Soula 2011), but characters that supported this were not provided. The genus was not included in any generic keys, and Soula’s descriptions do not provide adequate characters for separation from other genera. Future research should address the classification and relationships of Patatra mathani . Larvae and natural history for the species are not known.