Chrysina psittacina (Sturm, 1843)

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

Chrysina psittacina (Sturm, 1843)

Pelidnota psittacina Sturm, 1843: 340 [original combination].

Plusiotis auripes (Gray) [syn. by Burmeister 1844: 419].

Plusiotis psittacina (Sturm) [revised species status by Boucard 1875: 123].

Chrysina psittacina (Sturm) [new combination and revised application by Hawks 2001: 3].

Plusiotis amalia Burmeister, 1844 synonym.

Plusiotis amalia Burmeister, 1844: 422 [original combination].

Plusiotis laeta Sturm [syn. by Boucard 1875: 121].

Plusiotis psittacina Sturm [syn. by H. W. Bates 1888: 281].

Pelidnota laeta Sturm, 1843 synonym.

Pelidnota laeta Sturm, 1843: 341 [original combination].

Plusiotis psittacina (Sturm) [syn. by Boucard 1878: 294].

Plusiotis adelaidae (Hope) [syn. by Nonfried 1891: 302].

Plusiotis psittacina var. laeta (Sturm) [syn. by Ohaus 1918: 17].

Distribution.

MEXICO: Chiapas, Hidalgo, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosi, Tamaulipas ( Sturm 1843, Burmeister 1844, H. W. Bates 1888, Nonfried 1891, Ohaus 1918, 1934b, Blackwelder 1944, Machatschke 1972, Morón 1981, 1990, Thomas 1993, Hawks 2001, Thomas et al. 2006, Krajcik 2008, Márquez et al. 2013).

Types.

1 ♀ lectotype of Pelidnota psittacina at BMNH ( Hawks 2001).

Remarks.

In reference to species groups, Hawks (2001) listed C. amalia as " incertae sedis " (that is, Hawks was not able to assign the species to a species group). In his usage of " incertae sedis ", Hawks (2001) was not suggesting that the validity of the species was in question. H. W. Bates (1888) noted that P. amalia had uncertain locality data but synonymized the species under Plusiotis psittacina . Morón (1990) maintained the synonymy. We cautiously list C. amalia here in synonymy with Chrysina psittacina until the validity of the species is reevaluated.