Pelidnota teocuitlamayatli Delgado-Castillo, Deloya, & Moron , 1988

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

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.666.9191
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scientific name	Pelidnota teocuitlamayatli Delgado-Castillo, Deloya, & Moron , 1988
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Treatment

Pelidnota teocuitlamayatli Delgado-Castillo, Deloya, & Moron, 1988

Pelidnota (Pelidnota) teocuitlamayatli Delgado-Castillo, Deloya, & Morón, 1988: 132, 139-141 [original combination].

Pelidnota teocuitlamayatli Delgado-Castillo, Deloya, and Morón [removal of subgeneric classification by Soula 2009: 36-37].

Distribution.

MEXICO: Guerrero ( Delgado-Castillo et al. 1988, Krajcik 2008, Soula 2009, Deloya et al. 2014).

Types.

The following specimen is deposited at CMNC. 1 ♂ holotype: "24 mi. south Iguala Gro. MEXICO VII 18 1963//H. & A. Howden Collection//HOLOTIPO// Pelidnota ♂ teocuitlamayatli Delgado, Deloya, Morón 1988. L.L. Delgado det. 1988.//CMNEN 1999-0383".

Remarks.

This species is metallic silver and thus it strongly resembles species in the genus Chrysina .