Pelidnota dubia 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 dubia F. Bates, 1904

Pelidnota dubia F. Bates, 1904: 254, 262-263 [original combination].

Pelidnota (Ganonota) dubia F. Bates [new subgeneric combination by Ohaus 1918: 25].

Pelidnota (Strigidia) dubia F. Bates [new subgeneric combination by Machatschke 1970: 157].

Pelidnota (Odontognathus) dubia F. Bates [new subgeneric combination by Hardy 1975: 4].

Strigidia dubia (F. Bates) [new combination by Soula 2006: 77].

Pelidnota (Strigidia) dubia F. Bates [revised combination and revised subgeneric combination by Özdikmen 2009: 145].

Pelidnota dubia F. Bates [removal of subgeneric classification by Soula 2009: 115].

Distribution.

COLOMBIA: Caldas, Cauca (F. Bates 1904, Ohaus 1918, 1934b, Blackwelder 1944, Machatschke 1972, Restrepo et al. 2003, Soula 2006, Krajcik 2008).

Types.

1 ♂ lectotype specimen of Pelidnota dubia F. Bates at BMNH (Fig. 63 ) and 1 paralectotype specimen at BMNH.

Remarks.

F. Bates (1904) may have named this species " dubia " because of the overall similarity with P. testaceovirens . He stated that P. dubia may be conspecific with P. testaceovirens (F. Bates 1904: 263), but he hypothesized that P. dubia was distinct from P. testaceovirens based on differences in size ("23-24 mm" for P. testaceovirens versus "19.5-22 mm" for P. dubia ) as well as form of the pygidium (densely striate and glabrous in P. testaceovirens versus “aciculate-rugulose” and with "long, grayish hairs" in P. dubia ). He noted that some specimens had "slight green reflections" (F. Bates 1904: 263).

Figures

Figure 63. Pelidnota dubia F. Bates syntype male from BMNH. A Dorsal habitus B Lateral habitus C Specimen labels and male genitalia D Male genitalia, lateral view E Male parameres, dorsal view.