22 



Mecopelidnota. — Pelidnota. 



Pars 66 



obscura Taschenb. Zoitsclir. ges. Naturw. XXXV, 1870, 



p. 185 (Pelidnota). 

 WIttl Ohs. Deutsche Ent. Zeitsckr. 1913, p. 497. 



Columbien 



Ecuador: 

 Loja 



Pelidiiota M'Leay. 



W. S. M'Leav, Horae Ent. I, 1819, p, 157. — Latr. in Cuvier, Regne anim. 

 IV, 1829, p. 553. — Lap. Hist. Nat, Col. II, 1840, p. 121. — Burm. Handb. 

 Ent. IV, 1, 1844, p. 392. — Blanch. Hist. Ins. 1, 1845, p. 218. — Lacord. Gen. 

 Col. III, 1856, p. 355. — F. Bates, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1904, p. 249. 



Biologie: Lacord. Ann. scienc nat. XX, 1830, p. 270. • — Harris, 

 A Report on the insects of Massachusetts, injourious to Vegetation, 

 Silliman Amer. Journ. Scienc. XXXX11, 1842. — Burm. Handb. 

 Ent. IV, 2, 1855, p. 523. — Ohs. Stett. Ent. Zeit. LX1, 1900, 

 p. 175—191; Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 1908, p. 248—251. 



I. Subgemis sens. strict. Pelidnota M'Leay. 

 Ohs. Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 1915, p. 259. 



1. pmctata-Gruppe. 



aeruginosa L. Syst. Nat. ed. 10, I, 2, 1758, p. 350 

 (Scarabaeus). — Ohs. Stett. Ent. Zeit. LX1, 

 1900, p. 185; Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 1908, p. 250. 

 — F. Bates, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1904, p. 258. 



americana Herbst. Natursv3t. Käfer III, 1790, 

 p. 66, t. 23, f. 3 (Meloloniha). 

 glauca Ol. Ent. I, 1789, nr. 5, p. 21, t. 5, f. 47 

 (Meloloniha); — ed. Illiger II, 1802, p. 41 ; ed. 

 Sturm 1803, p. 12, t. 58, f. 7. — Lap. Hist. 

 Nat. Col. II, 1840, p. 122 (Pelidnota). — Burm. 

 Handb. Ent, IV, 1, 1844, p. 401. 

 prasina Germar, Ins. spec. uov. 1824, p. 117 

 (Rutela). 



- subspec. semiaurata Burm. Handb. Ent. IV, I, 



1844, p. 402. 



subspec. citripennis Ohs. Stett. Ent. Zeit. LXI, 

 1900, p. 185. 

 alllacea Germar, Ins. spec. nov. 1824, p. 117 (Rutela). — 

 Ohs. Deutsche Ent, Zeitschr. 1908, p. 250. 



ancilla F. Bates, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1904, p. 267. 

 aurescens H. Bates, Biol. Centr.-Amer. Col. II, 2, 1888, 



p. 274, t. 16, f. 5. — Ohs. Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 



1913, p. 498. 

 chalcothorax Pertv, Delect, anim. artic. 1834, p. 48, 



t. 10, f. 7. — Lap. Hist. Nat. Col. II, 1840, p. 122. 



— Burm. Handb. Ent. IV, 1, 1844, p. 404. — 



Ohs. Stett. Ent. Zeit. LXI, 1900, p. 184; Deutsche 



Ent. Zeitschr. 1908, p. 251. — F. Bates, Trans. 



Ent. Soc. Lond. 1904, p. 258. 



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