Pelidnota cyanipes (Kirby, 1819)

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
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B3C377E8-BBB1-4F32-8AEC-A2C22D1E625A
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scientific name	Pelidnota cyanipes (Kirby, 1819)
status

Treatment

Rutela cyanipes Kirby, 1819: 406-407 [original combination].

Pelidnota cyanipes (Kirby) [new combination by Laporte 1840: 122].

Pelidnota (Chalcoplethis) cyanipes (Kirby) [new subgeneric combination by Ohaus 1918: 29].

Pelidnota cyanipes (Kirby) [removal of subgeneric classification by Soula 2009: 35-36].

Distribution.

ARGENTINA: Misiones ( Gutiérrez 1951, Soula 2009). BRAZIL: Bahia, Pará, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul ( Laporte 1840, Burmeister 1844, 1855, Blanchard 1851, Ohaus 1908a, 1918, 1934b, Blackwelder 1944, Machatschke 1972, Krajcik 2008, Soula 2009), Santa Catarina, Mato Grosso (WBWC).

Types.

Most of Kirby’s type specimens are located at BMNH. A search for the type specimen of P. cyanipes did not locate the specimen in the collection.