§ Pelidnota pennata Ohaus, 1912

Pelidnota pennata Ohaus 1912: 299 (Brazil (NA))

Distribution. Brazil (NA): Ohaus 1912: 299 (NA), 1934: 85 (as P. (Chalcoplethis) pennata) (NA); Blackwelder 1944: 237; Machatschke 1972: 32 (as P. (Chalcoplethis) pennata) (NA); Soula 2006: 69 (as Strigidia pennata), 2010b: 36; Moore et al. 2017: 232. Other: Soula 2006: 69 (Brazil–Nicaragua - as Strigidia pennata); Moore et al. 2017: 232 (Nicaragua, Panama).

Note. Soula (2009: 115) synonymizes the genus Strigidia with the genus Pelidnota and gives a list of the new combinations which are thus created. The species Pelidnota pennata is apparently accidentally omitted from that list.