Cyclocephala morphoidina Prell, 1937

Moore, Matthew R., Cave, Ronald D. & Branham, Marc A., 2018, Annotated catalog and bibliography of the cyclocephaline scarab beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Dynastinae, Cyclocephalini), ZooKeys 745, pp. 101-378 : 195

Cyclocephala morphoidina Prell, 1937

Cyclocephala morphoidina Prell, 1937b: 495-496 [original combination].

Albridarollia morphoidina (Prell) [new combination by Bolivar et al. 1963: 185].

Cyclocephala morphoidina Prell [revised combination by Endrődi 1966: 61, 262].

Types.

Endrődi (1966) did not find the type(s) of C. morphoidina but he suspected that it was at ZMHB (Prell Collection).

Distribution.

COLOMBIA: Antioquia, Meta, Risaralda. BOLIVIA: La Paz. ECUADOR: Pastaza. PERU.

References.

Prell 1937b, Blackwelder 1944, Bolivar et al. 1963, Pike et al. 1976, Endrődi 1966, 1985a, Restrepo et al. 2003, Dupuis 2008, Útima and Vallejo 2008, Krajcik 2005, 2012, Yepes-Rodriguez et al. 2013, Ratcliffe et al. 2015, Gasca-Álvarez and Deloya 2016.

Remarks.

Cyclocephala morphoidina was previously reported from Mexico and Guatemala ( Endrődi 1966, 1985a). These records are considered spurious and likely do not reflect permanent populations ( Ratcliffe et al. 2013).