Pelidnota liturella liturella (Kirby, 1819)

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 liturella liturella (Kirby, 1819)
status

Treatment

Rutela liturella Kirby, 1819: 406 [original combination].

Pelidnota liturella (Kirby) [new combination by MacLeay 1819: 155].

Pelidnota (Ganonota) liturella (Kirby) [new subgeneric combination by Ohaus 1918: 28].

Pelidnota (Strigidia) liturella (Kirby) [new subgeneric combination by Machatschke 1970: 157].

Pelidnota (Odontognathus) liturella (Kirby) [new subgeneric combination by Hardy 1975: 4].

Strigidia liturella (Kirby) [new combination by Soula 2006: 40-41].

Pelidnota (Strigidia) liturella (Kirby) [revised combination and revised subgeneric combination by Özdikmen 2009: 145].

Pelidnota liturella liturella (Kirby) [removal of subgeneric classification by Soula 2009: 115].

Distribution.

ARGENTINA: Misiones ( Soula 2006). BRAZIL: Bahia, Espírito Santo, Goiás, Minas Gerais, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina ( Burmeister 1844, 1855, Blanchard 1851, Ohaus 1908a, 1918, 1929, 1934b, Machatschke 1972, Soula 2006, Krajcik 2008).

Types.

Most of Kirby’s type specimens are located at the BMNH. A search for the type specimen of P. liturella did not locate the specimen in the collection.