Cyclocephala quercina Burmeister, 1847

Moore, Matthew R., Cave, Ronald D. & Branham, Marc A., 2018, Annotated catalog and bibliography of the cyclocephaline scarab beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Dynastinae, Cyclocephalini), ZooKeys 745, pp. 101-378 : 210

Cyclocephala quercina Burmeister, 1847

Cyclocephala quercina Burmeister, 1847: 54-55 [original combination].

syn. Cyclocephala obesa Burmeister, 1847: 59-60 [original combination].

Cyclocephala quercina Burmeister [synonymy by Dechambre and Duranton 2005: 67-68].

Types.

Lectotype ♂ of C. quercina at MNHN ( Dechambre 1991b). Lectotype ♀ of C. obesa at MLUH ( Endrődi 1966).

Distribution.

ECUADOR: Guayas. FRENCH GUIANA: Cayenne. GUYANA: Essequibo Islands-West Demerara, Pomeroon-Supenaam, Potaro-Siparuni. TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: Trinidad. VENEZUELA: Monagas.

References.

Burmeister 1847, Reiche 1859, Harold 1869b, Arrow 1937b, Blackwelder 1944, Martínez 1969, Pike et al. 1976, Endrődi 1966, 1985a, Poole and Gentili 1996, Dechambre 1991b, 1999, Dechambre and Duranton 2005, Ponchel 2006, 2011, Krajcik 2005, 2012, Breeschoten et al. 2013.

Remarks.

Endrődi (1966, 1985a) reported specimens of C. obesa (= C. quercina ) from Honduras (Islas de la Bahia), Costa Rica ( Limón), and the United States (Arizona). These are the only records of C. quercina from these countries, and they are considered spurious or erroneous ( Ratcliffe 2003). Cyclocephala quercina is a South American species ( Ratcliffe 2003).