Gymnetis flaveola ( Fabricius, 1801 )

Hielkema, Auke J. & Hielkema, Meindert A., 2019, An annotated checklist of the Scarabaeoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Guianas, Insecta Mundi 732 (732), pp. 1-306 : 230

Gymnetis flaveola ( Fabricius, 1801)

Cetonia flaveola Fabricius 1801b: 142 (South America)

= Gymnetis batesii J. Thomson 1857: 135 ( Brazil) - Ratcliffe 2018: 92 (syn. nov.)

Distribution. Guyana: Ratcliffe 2018: 92. Suriname: Ratcliffe 2018: 92; MHCN; RMNH. French Guiana: Gory and Percheron 1833: 72, 360; Delatour et al. 2003: 63; Touroult and Dalens 2010b: 88; Ratcliffe 2018: 92; RMNH. “Guianas”: Blackwelder 1944: 262. Brazil (NA): J. Thomson 1857: 135 (as G. batesii ); Schenkling 1921: 91, 93 (as G. batesi ; as G. flaveola ); Blackwelder 1944: 262; Ratcliffe 2018: 92 (NA); RMNH (NA). Venezuela: Ratcliffe 2018: 92. Other: Fabricius 1801b: 142 (South America - as Cetonia flaveola ); Schenkling 1921: 93 (Nicaragua); Blackwelder 1944: 262 (Ecuador); Ratcliffe 2018: 92 (Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru).

Note. Schenkling (1921: 93) considers Gymnetis chontalensis a synonym of G. flaveola rather than of G. coturnix (its present status). The fact that he is the only one who records G. flaveola for Central America is likely caused by this, as the type locality of G. chontalensis is in Nicaragua. Gymnetis flaveola does not occur in Central America, while G. coturnix does.