Mecopelidnota cylindrica (Waterhouse, 1876)

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

Mecopelidnota cylindrica (Waterhouse, 1876)

Pelidnota cylindrica Waterhouse, 1876: 24 [original combination].

Mecopelidnota cylindrica (Waterhouse) [new combination by F. Bates 1904: 271].

Distribution.

ECUADOR: Guayas ( Paucar-Cabrera 2005).

Types.

1 ♂ lectotype at BMNH ( Soula 2008, BHG pers. obs. Aug. 2016).

Remarks.

Mecopelidnota cylindrica (Waterhouse) has been reported from Guatemala without further details ( Waterhouse 1876, H. W. Bates 1888, Ohaus 1918, 1934b, Blackwelder 1944, Machatschke 1972, Krajcik 2008, Soula 2008). This is the only Central American record for the genus Mecopelidnota . To our knowledge M. cylindrica (Waterhouse) has not been collected in Guatemala since the original Waterhouse specimen was described. Research on the scarabs of Guatemala considered the reference of the species in Guatemala to be possibly erroneous ( Monzón 1996). We consider M. cylindrica (Waterhouse) to be a South American species.