Gymnetis hieroglyphica Vigors, 1824

Iorio, Osvaldo Di, 2013, A review of the Cetoniinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from Argentina and adjacent countries: systematics and geographic distributions, Zootaxa 3668 (1), pp. 1-87 : 79

Gymnetis hieroglyphica Vigors, 1824

Figs. 43 (distribution), 67 (type), 68 (aspect), 75 (parameres)

[ Gymnetis] Hieroglyphica Vigors, 1824 : 416 (description; distribution), Tab. 15, Fig. 5 ;

Burmeister 1842: 298 (redescription; distribution); Blanchard 1850: 34 (catalog; distribution); Lucas 1857: 110 (distribution; reference); Dent 1886: 392 (list; distribution); Schenkling 1921: 94 (catalog; distribution; references); Krajcik 1998: 77 (catalog; distribution).

Gymnetis hieroglyphica (G.P. & Burm.) (sic!): Giachino 1982: 233 (catalog).

Paragymnetis hieroglyphica subsp. hieroglyphica Vg. : Schürhoff 1937: 67 (list; distribution).

Paragymnetis hieroglyphica Vig. : Blackwelder 1944: 263 (catalog).

Distribution: BOLIVIA: Santa Cruz: “Chiquitos” (Blanchard 1850), currently Santa Ana de Chiquitos. BRAZIL [type locality] (Vigors 1824, Lucas 1857, Schenkling 1921, Schürhoff 1937, Blackwelder 1944, Krajcik 1998); northern tropical Brazil, Col. Dupont (Burmeister 1842); Col. Spinola, 2 exx. [MRSN] (Giachino 1982); Minas Gerais (Dent 1886).

Material examined: BRAZIL: São Paulo: “São Paulo [printed] / Estado / 4.201 [handwritten]”, 1 ex. [ DIOC], “ Gymnetis / hieroglyph. Vig.” [handwritten, apparently by Moser] ; PARAGUAY: Canindeyú: Reserva Mbaracayú, Aguará-ñú , 13-XII-2003, Di Iorio leg., 1 male [ DIOC] (Fig. 68).

Male genitalia: parameres ( Fig. 75 ).

Note 1: This species was identified in this work with the description and illustration of Vigors (1824) (Fig. 67). The species name is listed as published in 1825 (Schenkling 1921, Blackwelder 1944, Krajcik 1998), but fascicle III (pages 409–418) with its description (p. 416), was published in October 1824 (a fourth part dated January 1825 with the same title was published in fascicle IV, pages 526–542).

Note 2: The specimen above is a new record for Paraguay ( Fig. 43 ). It seems to be a rare species that is seldom mentioned in the literature.

Note 3: Gymnetis hieroglyphica may be distinguished from orange specimens of G. pantherina with small spots of black background color ( Fig. 90 ) by the shape of its male parameres ( Fig. 75 ), and by the shiny black color of the venter and legs. The dorsal red color of G. hieroglyphica (Fig. 68) may be extended to the the lateral margins of the pygidium, to the venter of the body in the metaepimere, and to small spots on the lateral sides of the first four abdominal sternites, sometimes extended in a thin band bordering the posterior margins of the third, fourth and five abdominal sternites but not reaching the median line.

Figures

FIGURE 43. Geographic distributions of Gymnetini from Argentina and adjacent countries: Gymnetis carbo (circles); Gymnetis hebraica (stars); Gymnetis hieroglyphica (triangle); Blaesia subrugosa (squares).

FIGURES 3–7. General aspects of Gymnetini: 3–5, Gymnetis bajula (3, darker specimen; 4, specimen from the Burmeister Collection [MACN], likely the holotype of G. perplexa; 5, lighter specimen); 6, Gymnetis bruchi (Bruch Collection); 7, Aemilius wagneri (extracted from Le Moult 1939).

FIGURES 72–78. Male parameres: 72, Gymnetis flaveola (Brazil); 73, Gymnetis schistacea (Argentina); 74, Gymnetis goryi; 75, Gymnetis hieroglyphica; 76, Hologymnetis sp. (Bruch Collection); 77, Hologymnetis undulata; 78, Heterocotinis semiopaca.

FIGURES 79–104. General aspects of Gymnetini from the Neotropical Region: 79, G. callispila (lectotype, extracted from Ratcliffe 2004); 80, G. radiicollis (lectotype, extracted from Ratcliffe 2004); 81, G. zikani (lectotype, extracted from Ratcliffe 2004); 82–91, Gymmetis pantherina (82, Colombia: Guacarí; 83, Venezuela: Río Negro; 84, Ecuador: Santa Catalina; 85, Guyane; 86, Argentina: Isla Monteagudo; 87, Brazil: Mafra; 88, Argentina: Isla Monteagudo; 89, Brazil: Buzios; 90, Colombia: Guacarí; 91, Argentina: Isla Monteagudo); 92–93, G. dyzoni (92, Venezuela, Burmeister Collection; 93, lectotype, extracted from Ratcliffe 2004); 94, G. pantherina (Argentina: Arroyo El Soberbio); 95, G. rubrocincta (lectotype, extracted from Ratcliffe 2004); 96–97, Gymnetis meleagris (96, paralectotype, Burmeister Collection; 97, lectotype, extracted from Ratcliffe 2004); 98, G. pantherina (Argentina: Isla Monteagudo); 99, G. alauda (holotype, Burmeister Collection); 100, G. pantherina (extracted from Blanchard 1842); 101–104, G. pantherina (101, Paraguay: Central, 1939–1940; 102, Bolivia: Suiqui; 103, Bolivia: Nigrillani; 104, Bolivia: Chulumani).