Pelidnota virescens Burmeister, 1844

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 virescens Burmeister, 1844

Pelidnota virescens Burmeister, 1844: 403 [original combination].

Pelidnota (Pelidnota) virescens Burmeister [new subgeneric combination by Ohaus 1918: 24].

Pelidnota virescens Burmeister [removal of subgeneric classification by Soula 2009: 60-61].

Pelidnota (Pelidnotidia) permicans Casey, 1915 synonym.

Pelidnota (Pelidnotidia) permicans Casey, 1915: 77 [original combination].

Pelidnota (Pelidnota) permicans Casey [new subgeneric combination by Ohaus 1934b: 80].

Pelidnota (Pelidnota) virescens Burmeister [syn. by Hardy 1975: 22].

Pelidnota (Pelidnota) virescens planipennis Ohaus, 1918 synonym.

Pelidnota (Pelidnota) virescens var. planipennis Ohaus, 1918: 24 [original combination].

Pelidnota (Pelidnota) virescens planipennis Ohaus [new subspecific status by Machatschke 1972: 24].

Pelidnota permicans Casey [syn. by Soula 2009: 61-62].

Distribution.

COSTA RICA: San José ( Hardy 1975, Soula 2009, Deloya et al. 2014). HONDURAS ( Hardy 1975, Soula 2009, Deloya et al. 2014). MEXICO: Baja California Sur, Chiapas, Colima, Distrito Federal, Durango, Guerrero, Jalisco, México, Michoacán, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Sinaloa, Sonora, Veracruz ( Burmeister 1844, Blanchard 1851, H. W. Bates 1888, Casey 1915, Ohaus 1918, 1934b, Blackwelder 1944, Gibson and Carrillo 1959, Carrillo et al. 1966, Machatschke 1972, Hardy 1975, Maes 1987, Deloya et al. 1993, 2014, Morón et al. 1988, 1997, 1998, Thomas 1993, Rodríguez-Palafox and Corona 2002, Morón and Deloya 2002, Pacheco Flores at al. 2006, Krajcik 2008, Soula 2009, García et al. 2009, Yanes-Gómez and Morón 2010, 2013, Aragón-García et al. 2012, Pérez-Torres et al. 2013, Cuate et al. 2013, Lugo et al. 2012, 2013, 2014, Castañeda-Osorio et al. 2015). NICARAGUA: Managua ( Maes 1987).

Types.

1 ♂ neotype of Pelidnota virescens at MNHN ( Soula 2009). 1 ♂ lectotype of Pelidnota (Pelidnota) virescens var. planipennis at BMNH ( Soula 2009); The following specimens of Pelidnota (Pelidnota) virescens var. planipennis are deposited at CCECL. 1 ♂ paralectotype, 1 ♀ paralectotype: "Acapulco, Guerrero. Höge.// Pelidnota planipennis Oh. M. SOULA det 2008//Paralectotype 2008 Pelidnota virescens v. planipennis Oh. Soula det." (47030488); "Acapulco, Guerrero. Höge.//H.W.Bates Biol.Cent.Amer.//2008 Pelidnota planipennis Ohaus M. SOULA det 19//Paralectotype 2008 Pelidnota virescens var. planipennis Bates Soula det." (47030489). The paralectotypes were apparently retained from the MNHN type series. Box 4618666 SOULA.

Remarks.

Soula’s (2009) language that indicated the synonymy of these species is confusing. Soula (2009) listed P. virescens Burmeister and P. planipennis Ohaus as valid species. However, in his summary of synonyms he listed P. planipennis as a new synonym of P. permicans , while simultaneously treating P. permicans as a synonym of P. virescens ( Soula 2009: 62). This is in agreement with Hardy (1975), who studied these species and determined that the parameres of P. virescens vary along a north-south cline. We follow Hardy (1975), and possibly Soula (2009), and list P. (Pelidnotidia) permicans Casey and P. (Pelidnota) virescens var. planipennis Ohaus as synonyms of P. virescens Burmeister.