Pelidnota ebenina (Blanchard, 1842)

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 ebenina (Blanchard, 1842)

Anomala ebenina Blanchard, 1842: plate 11 [original combination].

Odontognathus ebeninus (Blanchard) [new combination by Blanchard 1851: 215].

Strigidia ebenina (Blanchard) [new combination by Lacordaire 1856: 355].

Odontognathus ebeninus (Blanchard) [revised combination by Harold 1869b: 1221].

Pelidnota (Ganonota) ebenina (Blanchard) [new combination and new subgeneric combination by Ohaus 1918: 26].

Pelidnota (Strigidia) ebenina (Blanchard) [new subgeneric combination by Machatschke 1970: 157].

Pelidnota (Odontognathus) ebenina (Blanchard) [new subgeneric combination by Hardy 1975: 4].

Strigidia ebenina (Blanchard) [revised combination by Soula 2006: 16-17].

Pelidnota (Strigidia) ebenina (Blanchard) [revised combination and revised subgeneric combination by Özdikmen 2009: 145].

Pelidnota ebenina (Blanchard) [removal of subgeneric classification by Soula 2009: 115].

Odontognathus gounellei Ohaus, 1908c synonym.

Odontognathus gounellei Ohaus, 1908c: 307 [original combination].

Pelidnota (Ganonota) gounellei (Ohaus) [new combination and new subgeneric combination by Ohaus 1918: 26].

Pelidnota (Strigidia) gounellei (Ohaus) [new subgeneric combination by Machatschke 1970: 157].

Pelidnota (Odontognathus) gounellei (Ohaus) [new subgeneric combination by Hardy 1975: 4].

Strigidia ebenina (Blanchard) [syn. by Soula 2006: 17].

Pelidnota (Strigidia) gounellei (Ohaus) [revised subgeneric combination and revised species status by Özdikmen 2009: 145].

Pelidnota ebenina (Blanchard) [revised synonymy].

Distribution.

ARGENTINA ( Soula 2006). BRAZIL: Bahia, Pará ( Ohaus 1908c, 1918, 1934b, Blackwelder 1944, Machatschke 1972, Soula 2006, Krajcik 2008). BOLIVIA: Santa Cruz ( Blanchard 1851, Ohaus 1918, 1934b, Blackwelder 1944, Machatschke 1972, Soula 2006; Krajcik 2008).

Types.

1 ♀ syntype (lacking head) at MNHN ( Soula 2006). An exemplar specimen identified by Jameson and compared with Blanchard’s type specimen is figured (Fig. 64 ).

Remarks.

CCECL contains a P. ebenina specimen labeled as a male ♂ alloréférent with the following data: "Camiri [arrow] Sta Cruz 650 m coll. - SOULA/Alloreferent ♂ de Strigidia ebenina (Bl.) M. SOULA det. 19" (47030122). Genitalia card-mounted underneath specimen. Box 4618652 SOULA. Ohaus (1908c) described P. gounellei based on a male specimen from San Antonio da Barra, Bahia, Brazil. It was collected by Mr. Gounelle, to whom Ohaus dedicated the species. Ohaus (1908c) compared P. gounellei with P. cuprea fulvipennis (which he remarked was quite variable in form) and stated that P. gounellei is a western Brazilian variety of P. cuprea fulvipennis . Soula (2006) synonymized P. gounellei with P. ebenina (Fig. 64 ). Based on outward appearance, the two species are very similar. Pelidnota gounellei and P. ebenina differ based on type localities ( P. ebenina in the western slopes of the Andes in Bolivia and Argentina; P. gounellei on Bahia and Minas Gerias in the eastern regions of Brazil). Type specimens associated with these three names ( P. ebenina , P. gounellei , and P. cuprea fulvipennis ) will assist in clarifying the validity of these species. Özdikmen (2009) did not acknowledge Soula (2006) and listed P. (Strigidia) gounellei (Ohaus) as a valid name. We follow Soula (2006) and consider Odontognathus gounellei Ohaus a revised synonymy of Pelidnota ebenina (Blanchard).

Figures

Figure 64. Pelidnota ebenina (Blanchard) female specimen compared [by Jameson] with syntype from MNHN. A Dorsal habitus B Lateral habitus C Specimen labels.