Chrysina optima (H. W. Bates, 1888)

Moore, Matthew R., Jameson, Mary L., Garner, Beulah H., Audibert, Cedric, Smith, Andrew B. T. & Seidel, Matthias, 2017, Synopsis of the pelidnotine scarabs (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Rutelinae, Rutelini) and annotated catalog of the species and subspecies, ZooKeys 666, pp. 1-349 : 1

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.666.9191

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B3C377E8-BBB1-4F32-8AEC-A2C22D1E625A

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A8CA843F-35BC-4986-3DFE-5EF17B82F2F7

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scientific name

Chrysina optima (H. W. Bates, 1888)
status

 

Chrysina optima (H. W. Bates, 1888) View in CoL

Plusiotis optima H. W. Bates, 1888: 279 [original combination].

Chrysina optima (H. W. Bates) [new combination by Hawks 2001: 8].

Plusiotis melior Rothschild & Jordan, 1894 synonym.

Plusiotis melior Rothschild & Jordan, 1894: 506 [original combination].

Plusiotis optima var. melior Rothschild and Jordan [new infrasubspecific status by Ohaus 1934b: 64].

Plusiotis optima melior (Rothschild and Jordan) [new subspecific status by Machatschke 1972: 16].

Plusiotis optima H. W. Bates [syn. by Morón 1990: 47].

Distribution.

COSTA RICA: Cartago (H. W. Bates 1888, Nonfried 1892, Rothschild and Jordan 1894, H. W. Bates 1888, Ohaus 1918, 1934b, Blackwelder 1944, Machatschke 1972, Morón 1990, Thomas et al. 2006, Krajcik 2008). PANAMA: Chiriquí ( Morón 1990, Ratcliffe 2002, Thomas et al. 2006).

Types.

1 ♂ holotype of Plusiotis optima at BMNH (Natural History Museum 2014).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

Genus

Chrysina

Loc

Chrysina optima (H. W. Bates, 1888)

Moore, Matthew R., Jameson, Mary L., Garner, Beulah H., Audibert, Cedric, Smith, Andrew B. T. & Seidel, Matthias 2017
2017
Loc

Plusiotis melior

Rothschild & Jordan 1894
1894
Loc

Plusiotis melior

Rothschild & Jordan 1894
1894
Loc

Plusiotis optima

Bates 1888
1888
Loc

Plusiotis optima

Bates 1888
1888