Cyclocephala variabilis Burmeister, 1847

Moore, Matthew R., Cave, Ronald D. & Branham, Marc A., 2018, Annotated catalog and bibliography of the cyclocephaline scarab beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Dynastinae, Cyclocephalini), ZooKeys 745, pp. 101-378 : 222-223

Cyclocephala variabilis Burmeister, 1847

Cyclocephala variabilis Burmeister, 1847: 44-45 [original combination].

Cyclocephala (Cyclocephala) variabilis Burmeister [new subgeneric classification by Casey 1915: 138].

Cyclocephala variabilis Burmeister [removal of subgeneric classification by Arrow 1937b: 8, 16].

Types.

Lectotype ♂ at MLUH ( Endrődi 1966).

Distribution.

ARGENTINA: Buenos Aires. BOLIVIA: Cochabamba, Santa Cruz. BRAZIL: Amazonas, Bahia, Goiás, Minas Gerais, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, São Paulo. COLOMBIA: Cauca, Boyacá. ECUADOR: Morona-Santiago. FRENCH GUIANA: Cayenne. PANAMA: Darien, Former Canal Zone. URUGUAY: Rocha. VENEZUELA: Capital District.

References.

Burmeister 1847, Harold 1869b, Casey 1915, Luederwaldt 1915, Monte 1933, Arrow 1937b, Blackwelder 1944, Pike et al. 1976, Saenz and Morelli 1984, Endrődi 1963, 1966, 1985a, Gottsberger 1986, Andreazze and Fonseca 1994, Ratcliffe and Morón 1997, Ratcliffe 2002a, 2003, Restrepo et al. 2003, Smith 2003, 2009, Grossi et al. 2011, Ponchel 2011, Krajcik 2005, 2012, Breeschoten et al. 2013, Ratcliffe et al. 2013, López-García et al. 2015, Gasca-Álvarez and Deloya 2016.

Remarks.

Cyclocephala variabilis was reported from Mexico ( Endrődi 1966, Ratcliffe and Morón 1997). Major faunistic studies did not record any further specimens, and this species likely does not occur in Mexico ( Ratcliffe et al. 2013).