Chrysina purpurata ( Moron , 1990)

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/ED7B8E49-F16C-55E3-9E3E-3C77F822B463

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scientific name

Chrysina purpurata ( Moron , 1990)
status

 

Chrysina purpurata ( Moron, 1990) View in CoL

Plusiotis purpurata Morón, 1990: 20-21 [original combination].

Chrysina purpurata ( Morón) [new combination by Hawks 2001: 7].

Distribution.

MEXICO: Guerrero ( Morón 1990, Blackaller-Bages and Delgado 1994, Thomas et al. 2006, Krajcik 2008, Morón and Nogueira 2016).

Types.

1 ♂ holotype and 1 ♀ allotype at MXAL ( Morón 1990); 1 paratype at CNIN (UNAM) ( Morón 1990); 1 paratype at ZMHB ( Morón 1990).

Remarks.

Morón and Nogueira (2016) considered the valid name for this species to be Plusiotis purpurata . Lacking a clearly articulated and evidence-based rationale for this nomenclatural change, we use the name Chrysina purpurata .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

Genus

Chrysina

Loc

Chrysina purpurata ( Moron , 1990)

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

Plusiotis purpurata

Moron 1990
1990