Chrysina optima (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

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scientific name	Chrysina optima (H. W. Bates, 1888)
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Chrysina optima (H. W. Bates, 1888) View in CoL

Plusiotis optima H. W. Bates, 1888: 279 [original combination].

Chrysina optima (H. W. Bates) [new combination by Hawks 2001: 8].

Plusiotis melior Rothschild & Jordan, 1894 synonym.

Plusiotis melior Rothschild & Jordan, 1894: 506 [original combination].

Plusiotis optima var. melior Rothschild and Jordan [new infrasubspecific status by Ohaus 1934b: 64].

Plusiotis optima melior (Rothschild and Jordan) [new subspecific status by Machatschke 1972: 16].

Plusiotis optima H. W. Bates [syn. by Morón 1990: 47].

Distribution.

COSTA RICA: Cartago (H. W. Bates 1888, Nonfried 1892, Rothschild and Jordan 1894, H. W. Bates 1888, Ohaus 1918, 1934b, Blackwelder 1944, Machatschke 1972, Morón 1990, Thomas et al. 2006, Krajcik 2008). PANAMA: Chiriquí ( Morón 1990, Ratcliffe 2002, Thomas et al. 2006).

Types.

1 ♂ holotype of Plusiotis optima at BMNH (Natural History Museum 2014).

References

Blackwelder, RE, 1944. Checklist of the Coleopterous Insects of Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, and South America. United States National Museum Bulletin 185: 189 - 265

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.

Machatschke, JW, 1972. Scarabaeoidea: Melolonthidae, Rutelinae. Coleopterorum Catalogus Supplementa 66: 1 - 361

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

Nonfried, AF, 1892. Beitrag zu einer Monographie der Gattung Plusiotis Burm. Wiener Entomologische Zeitung 11: 127 - 130, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.27703

Ohaus, F, 1918. Scarabaeidae: Euchirinae, Phaenomerinae, Rutelinae. Coleopterorum Catalogus 20: 1 - 241

Ohaus, F, 1934b. Coleopteralamellicornia, Fam. Scarabaeidae, Subfam. Rutelinae. T.1: Tribus Rutelini. Genera Insectorum Fasc. 199A: 1-172.

Ratcliffe, BC, 2002. A checklist of the Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) of Panama. Zootaxa 32: 1 - 48, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.32.1.1

Rothschild, W, Jordan, K, 1894. Six new species of Plusiotis and one new Anoplostethus. Novitates Zoologicae 1: 504 - 507, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.24570