Chrysina chrysopedila (H.W. Bates, 1888 )

Bayfield-Farrell, William P., Matsumoto, Keita & Barclay, Maxwell V. L., 2025, Catalogue of the specimens of the genus Chrysina Kirby, 1828 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae) deposited in the Natural History Museum, London, Zootaxa 5637 (3), pp. 401-449 : 442-443

Chrysina chrysopedila (H.W. Bates, 1888)

Original combination. Plusiotis aurora chrysopedila H.W. Bates, 1888 ( Fig. 23 ).

Type material. Lectotype [ Plusiotis chrysopedila H.W. Bates, 1888 ]: “[female terminalia] // V. de Chiriqui , / 2–8000ft. / Champion. [p] // B.C.A.,Coll.,II.(2) / Plusiotis / aurora. [p] // Plusiotis / chrysopedila / Bates [h] // Type [p, red ring, circular] // Sp. figured. [p] // LECTOTYPE / Plusiotis chrysopedila / Bates, 1888 / D. C. Hawks, 2000 [p, red label] // NHMUK 014589788 [p] // LECTOTYPE Plusiotis aurora chrysopedila Bates, 1888 des. Hawks, 2001 ” . Paralectotypes [ Plusiotis chrysopedila H. W. Bates, 1888 ], eight specimens (see also under C. luteomarginata ): “ V. de Chiriqui , / 4000–6000 ft. / Champion. [p] // B.C.A.,Coll.,II.(2) / Plusiotis / aurora. [p] // PARALECTOTYPE / Plusiotis chrysopedila / Bates, 1888 / D. C. Hawks, 2000 [p, yellow label] // NHMUK 014589789 [p]” ; “ V. de Chiriqui , / 25–4000 ft. / Champion. [p] // B.C.A.,Coll.,II.(2) / Plusiotis / aurora. [p] // PARALECTOTYPE / Plusiotis chrysopedila / Bates, 1888 / D. C. Hawks, 2000 [p, yellow label] // NHMUK 014589790 [p]” ; “ V. de Chiriqui , / 2–3000 ft. / Champion. [p] // B.C.A.,Coll.,II.(2) / Plusiotis / aurora. [p] // PARALECTOTYPE / Plusiotis chrysopedila / Bates, 1888 / D. C. Hawks, 2000 [p, yellow label] // NHMUK 014589791 [p]” ; “ V. de Chiriqui , / 4000–6000 ft. / Champion. [p] // Plusiotis / aurora var / chrysopedila / Bates [h] // B.C.A.,Coll.,II.(2) / Plusiotis / aurora. [p] // PARALECTOTYPE / Plusiotis chrysopedila / Bates, 1888 / D. C. Hawks, 2000 [p, yellow label] // NHMUK 014589792 [p]” ; “ V. de Chiriqui , / 25–4000 ft. / Champion. [p] // B.C.A.,Coll.,II.(2) / Plusiotis / aurora. [p] // PARALECTOTYPE / Plusiotis chrysopedila / Bates, 1888 / D. C. Hawks, 2000 [p, yellow label] // NHMUK 014589793 [p]” ; “ V. de Chiriqui , / 4000–6000 ft. / Champion. [p] // B.C.A.,Coll.,II.(2) / Plusiotis / aurora. [p] // PARALECTOTYPE / Plusiotis chrysopedila / Bates, 1888 / D. C. Hawks, 2000 [p, yellow label] // NHMUK 014589794 [p]” ; “ V. de Chiriqui , / 2–3000 ft. / Champion. [p] // B.C.A.,Coll.,II.(2) / Plusiotis / aurora. [p] // PARALECTOTYPE / Plusiotis chrysopedila / Bates, 1888 / D. C. Hawks, 2000 [p, yellow label] // NHMUK 014589795 [p]” ; “ V. de Chiriqui , / 2–3000 ft. / Champion. [p] // B.C.A.,Coll.,II.(2) / Plusiotis / aurora. [p] // PARALECTOTYPE / Plusiotis chrysopedila / Bates, 1888 / D. C. Hawks, 2000 [p, yellow label] // NHMUK 014589796 [p]” . Additional material. Seven specimens. “ V. de Chiriqui / M. de Mathan / 1898 [p] // Nevinson Coll. / 1918-14. [p] // NHMUK 014589797 [p]”; “ Ca. Rica [h] // Fry Coll. / 1905-100. [p] // 56925 [h, by Alexander Fry, green label] // NHMUK 014589798 [p]”; “Chiriqui [h] // Nevinson Coll. / 1918-14. [p] // 1 [h] // NHMUK 014589799 [p]”; “Chiriqui [h] // Chiriqui [h] // Nevinson Coll. / 1918-14. [p] // NHMUK 014589800 [p]”; “ P. chrysopedila / bates [h] // Nevinson Coll. / 1918-14. [p] // NHMUK 014589801 [p]”; “ Peru / [green line] / 79. 17 [h, apparently an incorrect locality, as with Janson’s specimen of C. marginata discussed above] // NHMUK 0145897802 [p]”; “Chiriqui [h] // Nevinson Coll. / 1918-14. [p] // Plusiotis / aurora / Bouc ♀ / V. chrysopedila / Bates [h] // NHMUK 014589787 [p]”.

Distribution. COSTA RICA (1): No Data. PANAMA (13): Chiriquí. NO DATA (2).

Remarks. The lectotype of Plusiotis chrysopedila H. W. Bates, 1888 was designated by Hawks (2001). Hawks reidentified one C. chrysopedila paralectotype as C. luteomarginata (see below). The specimen labelled “ Plusiotis aurora Bouc ♀ V. chrysopedila Bates’’ was moved from the C. aurora tray to the C. chrysopedila tray following change of status of Plusiotis aurora var. chrysopedila H.W. Bates, 1888 to C. chrysopedila (H.W. Bates, 1888) [new combination by Hawks 2001: 4]. Moore et al (2017) list the female lectotype and eight paralectotypes in Natural History Museum. The specimen from Fry with the green handwritten number 56925 (NHMUK 014589798) is reported in Fry’s notebooks as ‘ Costa Rica, Plusiotis aurota couleur typique, ex. Deyrolle”.

Figures

FIGURE 23. Lectoype of Chrysina chrysopedila (H.W. Bates, 1888), female. A) Dorsal habitus; B) labels.