Chrysina lacordairei ( Boucard, 1875 )

Monzón-Sierra, José, Blackaller-Bages, Julian Federico & Hawks, David C., 2020, Description of a new species of Chrysina Kirby (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae) from the Sierra Azul, Oaxaca, Mexico, a new synonymy, and notes on Chrysina species found in the Sierra Azul, Insecta Mundi 2020 (803), pp. 1-7 : 4-6

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.4565325

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4586629

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scientific name

Chrysina lacordairei ( Boucard, 1875 )
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Chrysina lacordairei ( Boucard, 1875)

( Figures 5 View Figures 1–9 , 18 View Figures 14–21 , 22, 23 View Figures 22–23 )

Plusiotis cosijoezai Ramírez-Ponce and Curoe, 2017 . New synonymy.

This is a common species that has been collected in various localities in the states of Guerrero and Oaxaca in Mexico. It has been found in oak and pine-oak forests at elevations between 1100 and 2350 meters above sea level. In the Sierra Azul we found this species in August 2018 in Santa Inés del Monte at 2300 m (1 male and 1 female), and in Santiago Clavellinas in August–September 2018 and July 2019 between 2100 and 2300 m (6 males and 4 females). Plusiotis cosijoezai was described in 2017 from a series consisting of one “male” holotype and seven female paratypes. We herein synonymize this species with C. lacordairei because the holotype “male” designated to typify the species actually is a typical female of C. lacordairei . The “male” holotype photographed for the original description (their Figure 1 View Figures 1–9 a–b) obviously is a female based upon the external characters typical of all females of the Adelaida Group (sensu Hawks 2001). The consistent differences on the ventral surfaces of the male and female abdomen in C. lacordairei are easily observed in Fig. 22 View Figures 22–23 (male) and Fig. 23 View Figures 22–23 (female). The male genital capsule associated with the holotype specimen of C. cosijoezai represents an additional error since it corresponds to the genital capsule of C. adelaida . The erroneous male genitalia of C. cosijoezai in the original description corresponds well to that of a C. adelaida male collected in the Sierra Azul in August 2018 ( Fig. 19 View Figures 14–21 ). Chrysina lacordairei adults are known to feed on the leaves of oak trees ( Quercus View in CoL species) at other localities in Oaxaca and Guerrero (e.g., Boucard 1875).

22) Male. 23) Female.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Rutelidae

Genus

Chrysina

Loc

Chrysina lacordairei ( Boucard, 1875 )

Monzón-Sierra, José, Blackaller-Bages, Julian Federico & Hawks, David C. 2020
2020
Loc

Plusiotis cosijoezai Ramírez-Ponce and Curoe, 2017

Ramirez-Ponce and Curoe 2017
2017
Loc

Plusiotis cosijoezai

Ramirez-Ponce and Curoe 2017
2017
Loc

C. cosijoezai

Ramirez-Ponce and Curoe 2017
2017
Loc

C. cosijoezai

Ramirez-Ponce and Curoe 2017
2017
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