Epichalcoplethis schiffleri Bouchard & Soula, 2006

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

Epichalcoplethis schiffleri Bouchard & Soula, 2006

Epichalcoplethis schiffleri Bouchard & Soula, 2006: 102, 107-108 [original combination].

Distribution.

PERU: Loreto, Piura ( Soula 2006, Ratcliffe et al. 2015).

Types.

The following specimens are deposited at CCECL. 1 ♂ holotype, 4 ♂ paratypes: "Iquitos, Loreto Pérou; VIII/2003//Holotype 2006 Epichalcoplethis schiffleri S. Soula" (47030027); "Iquitos, Loreto Pérou; VIII/2003//Paratype 2005 Epichalcoplethis schiffleri S. Soula" (47030028); "Iquitos 100 m 9.03 Loreto/PERU//Paratype 2005 Epichalcoplethis schiffleri S. Soula" (47030030); "Yamamono River Iquitos (P) 6/88// Paratype 2005 Epichalcoplethis schiffleri S. Soula" (47030031); "Carbajal, Rio Itaya Piura, Pérou, IX/2005// Paratype 2005 Epichalcoplethis schiffleri S. Soula" (47030029). The Yamamono River locality does not appear in the Soula (2006) description. All 5 specimens have their genitalia card-mounted. Box 4618648 SOULA.