Pelidnota punctulata H. W. Bates, 1888

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

Pelidnota punctulata H. W. Bates, 1888

Pelidnota punctulata H. W. Bates, 1888: 276 [original combination].

Pelidnota (Pelidnotidia) punctulata H. W. Bates [new subgeneric combination by Casey 1915: 80].

Pelidnota (Pelidnota) punctulata H. W. Bates [new subgeneric combination by Ohaus 1918: 24].

Pelidnota punctulata H. W. Bates [removal of subgeneric classification by Soula 2009: 78-80].

Distribution.

BELIZE: Toledo (H. W. Bates 1888, Blackwelder 1944, Hardy 1975, Maes 1987, Soula 2009). COLOMBIA: Chocó ( Hardy 1975, Morón 1979, Maes 1987, Neita-Moreno 2011). COSTA RICA: Cartago, Guanacaste ( Hardy 1975, 1985, Maes 1987, Solís and Morón 1994). ECUADOR ( Hardy 1975, Morón 1979, Maes 1987). EL SALVADOR: La Libertad, San Salvador ( Hardy 1975). GUATEMALA: Escuintla, Petén, San Marcos, Suchitepéquez (H. W. Bates 1888, Ohaus 1918, 1934b, Blackwelder 1944, Machatschke 1972, Hardy 1975, Morón 1979, Maes 1987). HONDURAS: Cortés ( Casey 1915, Ohaus 1918, 1934b, Machatschke 1972). NICARAGUA: Chontales, León, Managua (H. W. Bates 1888, Ohaus 1918, 1934b, Blackwelder 1944, Machatschke 1972, Hardy 1975, Maes 1987). MEXICO: Campeche, Chiapas, Oaxaca, Puebla, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz, Yucatán (H. W. Bates 1888, Ohaus 1934b, Blackwelder 1944, Carrillo et al. 1966, Machatschke 1972, Hardy 1975, Morón 1979, Maes 1987, Palacios-Rios et al. 1990, Thomas 1993, Lobo and Morón 1993, Morón et al. 1997, Sánchez-Soto 1997, Reyes Novelo and Morón 2005, Pacheco Flores et al. 2008, Krajcik 2008, Soula 2009, Morón-Ríos and Morón 2016). PANAMA: Chiriquí ( Hardy 1975, Maes 1987, Ratcliffe 2002). VENEZUELA ( Maes 1987).

Types.

1 ♀ lectotype of Pelidnota punctulata at BMNH ( Hardy 1975, Soula 2009); 17 type specimens at BMNH ( Soula 2009); 5 type specimens at MNHN ( Soula 2009); 1 type specimen at IRSNB ( Soula 2009).