Chrysina difficilis ( Moron , 1990)

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
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B3C377E8-BBB1-4F32-8AEC-A2C22D1E625A
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scientific name	Chrysina difficilis ( Moron , 1990)
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Treatment

Chrysina difficilis ( Moron, 1990) View in CoL

Plusiotis difficilis Morón, 1990: 19-20 [original combination].

Chrysina difficilis ( Morón) [new combination by Hawks 2001: 7].

Distribution.

MEXICO: Hidalgo, Querétaro, Tlaxcala ( Morón 1990, Blackaller-Bages and Delgado 1994, Thomas et al. 2006, Delgado-Castillo and Márquez 2006, Krajcik 2008, Márquez 2008, Márquez et al. 2013, Morón and Nogueira 2016).

Types.

1 ♀ holotype and 1 paratype at MXAL ( Morón 1990).

Remarks.

Morón and Nogueira (2016) considered the valid name for this species to be Plusiotis difficilis . Lacking a clearly articulated and evidence-based rationale for this nomenclatural change, we use the name Chrysina difficilis .

References

Blackaller-Bages, J, Delgado, L, 1994. Plusiotis citlaltepetlamayatli, a new species of the lecontei group from Mexico (Coleoptera: Melolonthidae; Rutelinae). The Journal of the New York Entomological Society 102: 79 - 85

Delgado-Castillo, L, Marquez, J, 2006. Estado del conocimiento y conservacion de los coleopteros Scarabaeoidea (Insecta) del estado de Hidalgo, Mexico. Acta Zoologica Mexicana (N. S.) 22: 57 - 108

Hawks, DC, 2001. Taxonomic and nomenclatural changes in Chrysina and synonymic checklist of species (Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae). Occasional Papers of the Consortium Coleopterorum 4: 1 - 8

Krajcik, M, 2008. Animma. X. Supplement 4. Checklist of the Scarabaeoidea of the World. 2. Rutelinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae). Second Edition. Plzen, 142 pp.

Marquez, J, 2008. Escarabajos gema del estado de Hidalgo (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae, Rutelinae). Herreriana: Revista de Divulgacion de la Ciencia 4 (1): 1 - 4

Marquez, J, Asiain, J, Moron, MA, Hornung-Leoni, CT, 2013. Grado de conservacion de los bosques del Estado de Hidalgo, Mexico. Interciencia 38: 410 - 417

Moron, MA, 1990. The Beetles of the World. Volume 10: Rutelini 1. Sciences Nat, Venette

Moron, MA, Nogueira, G, 2016. Revision del grupo de especies lecontei de Plusiotis (s. str.) (Coleoptera: Melolonthidae: Rutelinae). Boletin de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa (S. E. A.) 58: 6 - 27