Pelidnota laevissima Burmeister, 1855

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 laevissima Burmeister, 1855

Pelidnota laevissima Burmeister, 1855: 522 [original combination].

Pelidnota (Pelidnota) laevissima Burmeister [new subgeneric combination by Ohaus 1918: 23].

Pelidnota laevissima Burmeister [removal of subgeneric classification by Soula 2009: 104].

Distribution.

COLOMBIA: Atlántico, Caldas, Valle del Cauca ( Ohaus 1913, 1918, 1934b, Blackwelder 1944, Machatschke 1972, Restrepo et al. 2003). PANAMA: Chiriquí ( Ohaus 1913). TRINIDAD & TOBAGO: Tobago, Trinidad ( Ohaus 1913, 1918, 1934b, Blackwelder 1944, Machatschke 1972, Peck et al. 2002, Soula 2009). VENEZUELA: Distrito Capital ( Burmeister 1855, Ohaus 1913, 1918, 1934b, Blackwelder 1944, Machatschke 1972, Hardy 1975, Krajcik 2008, Soula 2009).

Types.

1 paralectotype of Pelidnota laevissima at MLUH ( Soula 2009). Soula (2009) stated that 1 ♀ holotype and 1 ♀ paratype resided at MNHN (see " Type Specimens and Lectotype Designation " in Methods).

Remarks.

Krajcik (2012, 2013) considered P. cayennensis and P. chiriquicola to be subspecies of P. laevissima .