Pelidnota cyanitarsis (Gory, 1833)

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 cyanitarsis (Gory, 1833)

Rutela cyanitarsis Gory, 1833a: 67-68 [original combination].

Pelidnota cyanitarsis (Gory) [new combination by Burmeister 1844: 407].

Pelidnota (Pelidnota) cyanitarsis (Gory) [new subgeneric combination by Ohaus 1918: 25].

Pelidnota cyanitarsis (Gory) [removal of subgeneric classification by Soula 2009: 40-41].

Rutela nitidissima Guérin-Méneville, 1834 synonym.

Rutela nitidissima Guérin-Méneville, 1834: 91 [original combination].

Pelidnota (Pelidnota) cyanitarsis (Gory) [syn. by Ohaus 1934b: 81].

Distribution.

BRAZIL: Bahia, Minas Gerais, Pará ( Guérin-Méneville 1834, Burmeister 1844, Blanchard 1851, Ohaus 1918, 1934b, Blackwelder 1944, Machatschke 1972, Krajcik 2008, Soula 2009).

Remarks.

Two spectacular species, P. cyanitarsis and P. sumptuosa Vigors, have been confused in collections and the literature. Both species are brilliant metallic blue, green, or blue-green with enlarged metatibia. Several characters serve to separate these species ( P. cyanitarsis with well-developed fovea on pronotal margin whereas P. sumptuosa has a strigate patch on the pronotal margins; P. cyanitarsis male with well developed medial tooth on foreclaw and P. sumptuosa male with well-developed subapical tooth on foreclaw), and male parameres are also diagnostic (see Soula 2009: 41 and 42).