Pelidnota costaricensis H. W. Bates, 1888

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 costaricensis H. W. Bates, 1888

Pelidnota costaricensis H. W. Bates, 1888: 274 [original combination].

Pelidnota (Pelidnota) costaricensis H. W. Bates [new subgeneric combination by Ohaus 1918: 23].

Pelidnota costaricensis H. W. Bates [removal of subgeneric classification by Soula 2009: 68-69].

Distribution.

COSTA RICA: Alajuela, Guanacaste, Heredia, Puntarenas, San José (H. W. Bates 1888, Ohaus 1918, 1934b, Blackwelder 1944, Machatschke 1972, Hardy 1975, Solís and Morón 1994, Hilje 1996, Krajcik 2008, Soula 2009). PANAMA ( Hardy 1975, Soula 2009).

Types.

1 ♀ lectotype of Pelidnota costaricensis at BMNH ( Hardy 1975, Soula 2009); 4 paralectotypes at BMNH ( Soula 2009); 4 paralectotypes at MNHN ( Soula 2009).