Abstract
The Neotropical ruteline genus Pelidnota MacLeay currently includes 194 species and subspecies with a few described preimaginal stages. Here we describe the pupa of Pelidnota granulata (Gory, 1834), provide illustrations, comparative notes on other known pupae of Rutelini and comments on its geographical distribution. The key to known pupae of Rutelini is updated.
Highlights
The genus Pelidnota MacLeay (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Rutelini: Rutelina) currently includes 194 species and subspecies distributed in the New World (Moore et al, 2017)
This genus is diagnosed by the clypeus not fused to the labrum, outer margin of mandible with two reflexed teeth, apex of elytra with no spiny projections, pronotum with anterior margin completely beaded, prosternal process produced to level of procoxae, apex of thoracic ventrite process anterior to mesocoxae, metatibia not laterally flattened, and metatarsus as long as metatibia or almost so (Soula, 2006; Moore et al, 2017)
Two pupae of P. granulata were collected in a decaying trunk in Museu da Amazônia (MUSA) (Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil)
Summary
The genus Pelidnota MacLeay (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Rutelini: Rutelina) currently includes 194 species and subspecies distributed in the New World (Moore et al, 2017). Larvae of only four species are known: Pelidnota fulva Blanchard, 1850 described by Rodrigues & Morón (2012), Pelidnota lugubris LeConte, 1874 described by LugoGarcía et al (2019), Pelidnota punctata (Linnaeus, 1758) figured by Isaac The pupae of two species were known: P. lugubris, described by Lugo-García et al (2019), and P. punctata, figured by Isaac (1907).
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