Pelidnota cayennensis 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

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.666.9191
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scientific name	Pelidnota cayennensis F. Bates, 1904
status

Treatment

Pelidnota cayennensis F. Bates, 1904: 258, 269-270 [original combination].

Pelidnota laevissima cayennensis F. Bates [new subspecific status by Ohaus 1913: 499].

Pelidnota (Pelidnota) laevissima cayennensis F. Bates [new subgeneric combination by Ohaus 1918: 23].

Pelidnota cayennensis F. Bates [removal of subgeneric classification and revised species status by Soula 2009: 107-108].

Distribution.

FRENCH GUIANA: St.-Laurent du Maroni (F. Bates 1904, Ohaus 1913, 1918, 1934b, Blackwelder 1944, Machatschke 1972, Krajcik 2008, Soula 2009). VENEZUELA: Delta Amacuro (F. Bates 1904, Soula 2009).

Types.

1 ♂ lectotype and 1 paralectotype of Pelidnota cayennensis at BMNH ( Soula 2009).

Remarks.

Krajcik (2012, 2013) considered P. cayennensis to be a subspecies of P. laevissima .