Pelidnota burmeisteri tricolor Nonfried, 1894

Ferreira, André da Silva, Grossi, Paschoal C. & Seidel, Matthias, 2022, The taxonomic status of Pelidnota gounellei (Ohaus, 1908) and Pelidnota ludovici Ohaus, 1905 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Melolonthidae), Revista Brasileira de Entomologia (e 20220025) 66 (4), pp. 1-12 : 3

Pelidnota burmeisteri tricolor Nonfried, 1894 ( Fig. 5 A-5I)

Pelidnota tricolor Nonfried, 1894: 123–124 [original description].

Pelidnota sumptuosa var. tricolor Nonfried [new infrasubspecific status by F. Bates 1904: 260].

Pelidnota burmeisteri var.tricolor Nonfried [revised infrasubspecific status by Ohaus 1905: 317].

Pelidnota (Pelidnota) burmeisteri var. tricolor Nonfried [new subgeneric combination by Ohaus 1918: 25].

Pelidnota burmeisteri tricolor Nonfried [new combination and new subspecific status by Soula (2009, pp. 38-39)].

Type material: 1 male lectotype (present designation) of Pelidnota tricolor Nonfried at ZMHB [seeMoore et al.(2017, p. 170)], see Figure 57 in Moore et al. (2017, p. 172), 1 male lectotype: “Coll. Nonfried. / Brasilia // Pelidnota / tricolor / Nonfried // Type // LECTOTYPE / Pelidnota burmeisteri tricolor / Nonfried,1894 / des.Ferreira,Grossi& Seidel 2022”. 1male syntype at ZSM: “Coll. Nonfried. / Brasilia. // Pelidnota / tricolor / Nonfr. Cotype // Staatssammlung / München,1975/ Erwerb Coll./ Machatschke// SYNTYPE / Pelidnota tricolor / Nonfried,1894 / det.M.Seidel2019 // WORLD / SCARAB. / DATABASE / WSD00344828” // PARALECTOTYPE / Pelidnota burmeisteri tricolor / Nonfried, 1894 / des. Ferreira, Grossi & Seidel 2022 ( Fig. 5E).

Examined material: No additional material examined.

Distribution: BRAZIL: Mato Grosso ( Ohaus, 1905, 1918, 1934; Blackwelder, 1944; Machatschke, 1972; Krajcik, 2008; Soula, 2009; Moore et al., 2017) ( Fig. 18 ). As far as we have noticed there are only the syntypes of this subspecies, and no other specimen from Mato Grosso state was collected, or has been published.

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Figure 18 Distribution records for four species of Pelidnota.