Pelidnota chalcopus 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 chalcopus H. W. Bates, 1888

Pelidnota virescens var. chalcopus H. W. Bates, 1888: 275 [original combination].

Pelidnota (Pelidnota) virescens var. chalcopus H. W. Bates [new subgeneric combination by Ohaus 1918: 24].

Pelidnota (Pelidnota) virescens chalcopus H. W. Bates [new subspecific status by Machatschke 1972: 25].

Pelidnota (Pelidnota) aurescens H. W. Bates [syn. by Hardy 1975: 24].

Pelidnota chalcopus H. W. Bates [removal of subgeneric classification and new species status by Soula 2009: 67].

Distribution.

BELIZE: Cayo (H. W. Bates 1888, Hardy 1975, Krajcik 2008, Soula 2009). GUATEMALA (H. W. Bates 1888, Ohaus 1918, Ohaus 1934b, Machatschke 1972, Krajcik 2008, Soula 2009). HONDURAS ( Ohaus 1918, Ohaus 1934b, Machatschke 1972).

Types.

1 ♂ lectotype and 3 paralectotypes of Pelidnota virescens var. chalcopus at BMNH ( Soula 2009).