Pelidnota championi F. Bates, 1904

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 championi F. Bates, 1904

Pelidnota championi F. Bates, 1904: 258, 267 [original combination].

Pelidnota (Pelidnota) fulva championi F. Bates [new subgeneric combination and new subspecific status by Ohaus 1918: 23].

Pelidnota championi F. Bates [removal of subgeneric classification and revised species status by Soula 2009: 88-89].

Distribution.

ARGENTINA: Córdoba, Misiones, Tucumán (F. Bates 1904, Ohaus 1918, 1934b, Machatschke 1972, Krajcik 2008, Soula 2009).

Types.

1 ♂ lectotype of Pelidnota championi F. Bates at BMNH ( Soula 2009).

Remarks.

Krajcik (2012, 2013) considered P. championi to be a subspecies of P. fulva .