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Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae: Gymnetini) Jennifer M University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Faculty Publications: Department of Entomology Entomology, Department of 2015 A Monographic Revision Of The Genus Hoplopyga Thomson, 1880 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae: Gymnetini) Jennifer M. Shaughney University of Nebraska-Lincoln, [email protected] Brett .C Ratcliffe University of Nebraska-Lincoln, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/entomologyfacpub Part of the Entomology Commons Shaughney, Jennifer M. and Ratcliffe, Brett .,C "A Monographic Revision Of The Genus Hoplopyga Thomson, 1880 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae: Gymnetini)" (2015). Faculty Publications: Department of Entomology. 485. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/entomologyfacpub/485 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Entomology, Department of at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Publications: Department of Entomology by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. The Coleopterists Bulletin, 69(4): 579–638. 2015. AMONOGRAPHIC REVISION OF THE GENUS HOPLOPYGA THOMSON, 1880 (COLEOPTERA:SCARABAEIDAE:CETONIINAE:GYMNETINI) JENNIFER MARIE SHAUGHNEY Systematics Research Collections W436 Nebraska Hall, University of Nebraska Lincoln, NE 68588-0514, U.S.A. Current address: New Mexico State University Arthropod Museum 945 College Avenue, MSC 3BE, P.O. Box 30003 Las Cruces, NM 88003-8003, U.S.A. [email protected] AND BRETT C. RATCLIFFE Systematics Research Collections W436 Nebraska Hall, University of Nebraska Lincoln, NE 68588-0514, U.S.A. [email protected] ABSTRACT A comprehensive revision of the genus Hoplopyga Thomson, 1880 is presented. Eighteen species are redescribed, and two new species are described. A key for identification, distribution maps, and images of the 20 species are pro- vided. Hoplopyga ruteri Antoine is removed from the genus and placed in junior synonymy with Macrocranius similis Schürhoff. Lectotypes are designated for Hoplopyga brasiliensis (Gory and Percheron), Hoplopyga corumbana Schürhoff, and Hoplopyga multipunctata (Gory and Percheron). The following new synonymies are established: Hoplopyga lucidiventris (Thomson) is Hoplopyga foeda (Schaum); Hoplopyga spurca (Janson) is Hoplopyga liturata (Olivier); Hoplopyga monacha (Gory and Percheron) and Hoplopyga rubida (Gory and Percheron) are Hoplopyga singularis (Gory and Percheron). Hoplopyga pseudomiliaris Shaughney and Ratcliffe from Guatemala and Hoplopyga riparia Shaughney and Ratcliffe from Peru and Brazil are described as new species. Key Words: taxonomy, nomenclature, scarab beetles, fruit beetles, Neotropics The Cetoniinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) is an MacLeay (sensu lato) to define species limits. The attractive subfamily of scarab beetles known as the biology of most species remains unknown, and fruit beetles or flower chafers. Notable among the this valuable information may never be discovered 12 cetoniine tribes recognized by Krikken (1984) if habitats are eradicated before life histories are are the Gymnetini, distinguished by having a scu- fully understood. tellum that is partially or entirely obscured by the Thomson (1880) created the genus Hoplopyga extended basomedian lobe of the pronotum. The along with six other gymnetine genera after pur- Gymnetini are abundant in the New World and vary chasing a large collection of cetoniine specimens. In widely in color, sculpturing, and pattern through- the same work, he named Gymnetis marginesignata out their range from the central United States to Gory and Percheron as the type species and moved Argentina (Ratcliffe and Deloya 1992). The most six additional species into the genus. He distin- recent checklists include 24 genera (Krikken 1984), guished Hoplopyga as having the elytral apices pro- 25 genera (Hardy 1975), or 27 genera (Krajcik longed into spines and a mesometasternal process 1998) in the New World Gymnetini, but taxonomic that is short, flat, and with a rounded apex. However, resolution is complicated by the extreme intraspe- these characters are manifested in varying degrees cific diversity and lack of consistent, shared charac- by Hoplopyga species as well as by species in other ter states among both genera and species. Revisions gymnetine genera. Thomson also noted that males of the New World Gymnetini genera have been of this genus possess protibiae that are “unarmed” or largely completed by Ratcliffe and Deloya (1992) without teeth. This is another inconsistent character, and Ratcliffe (2013, 2014, 2015), but further revi- because the males of most Hoplopyga species pos- sionary work must be done in the genus Gymnetis sess bidentate or tridentate protibiae with teeth that 579 580 THE COLEOPTERISTS BULLETIN 69(4), 2015 become worn down over time. Schoch (1895b) CZUG Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, addressed Thomson’s vague generic description Mexico (José Luis Navarrete-Heredia) and provided a key to the genus (which he mis- DCCC David C. Carlson Collection, Fair Oaks, spelled as Holopyga), as well as descriptions for CA, USA six species. Schoch (1895a) transferred two species DEIC Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches from Gymnetis to Hoplopyga and described Holopyga Institut, Müncheberg (formerly in [sic] multiguttata, a species that was later synony- Eberswalde), Germany (Lothar Zerche, mized with Hoplopyga multipunctata (Gory and Stephan Blank) Percheron, 1833). There is currently no key available EAPZ Escuela Agrícola Panamericana (now for identification of Hoplopyga species, and there Panamerican Agricultural University), has been no comprehensive revision of this genus. El Zamorano, Honduras (then Ronald Schoch (1896), Schenkling (1921), Blackwelder Cave) (1944), and Krajcik (1998) provided checklists of EGRC Edward Riley Collection, College Sta- Hoplopyga species, but these checklists contain tion, TX, USA incorrect nomenclature and are incomplete, since EMEC Essig Museum of Entomology, Univer- several new species were recently described by sity of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Antoine (1998, 2008) and Ratcliffe (2012). The most (Cheryl Barr) recent checklist contained 23 species in the genus FMNH Field Museum of Natural History, (Schoolmeesters 2014). Chicago, IL, USA (Margaret Thayer) FSCA Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Gainesville, FL, USA (Paul Skelley, MATERIAL AND METHODS Michael Thomas) Morphological species limits and geographical HAHC Henry and Anne Howden Collection, distributions for each species were determined by Ottawa, ON, Canada (now at CMNC) examining 6,747 Hoplopyga specimens from numer- HNHM Hungarian Natural History Museum, ous museum and private collections as well as speci- Budapest, Hungary (Otto Merkl) mens obtained during numerous collecting trips INBC Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, to the Neotropics by BCR. The collections are listed Santo Domingo de Heredia, Costa Rica below along with the corresponding acronym from (Angel Solís) Arnett et al. (1993) or an ad hoc acronym if not INPA Instituto Nacional da Pesquisas da listed in that work. When applicable, the name of Amazonia, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil the curator or collections manager who provided (Claudio Ruy da Fonseca) specimens or data is listed in parentheses. JDGC John D. Glaser Collection, Baltimore, MD, USA (now at CMNH) ADMC Alan Mudge Collection, Jefferson, OR, JEWC James Wappes Collection, San Antonio, USA TX, USA AMIC Antonio Martínez Collection (then at JMMC Jean-Michel Maes Collection, León, Salta, Argentina, currently at CMNC) Nicaragua (A. Martínez, deceased) KSUC Kansas State University, Manhattan, AMNH American Museum of Natural History, KS (then Kyle Schnepp) New York, NY, USA (Lee Herman, Jr.) LACM Los Angeles County Museum of Natural BCRC Brett C. Ratcliffe Collection, Lincoln, History, Los Angeles, CA, USA (Brian NE, USA Brown, Weiping Xie) BMNH The Natural History Museum, London, LSAM Louisiana Arthropod Museum, Baton UK (Malcolm Kerley, Max Barclay) Rouge, LA, USA (Victoria Bayless) CASC California Academy of Sciences, San MACN Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Francisco, CA, USA (Norman Penny) “Bernardino Rivadavia”, Buenos Aires, CMNC Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Argentina ON, Canada (François Génier, Robert MAMC Miguel A. Morón Collection, Xalapa, Anderson) Mexico CMNH Carnegie Museum of Natural History, MCZC Museum of Comparative Zoology, Pittsburgh, PA, USA (John Rawlins, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Robert Davidson) USA (Philip Perkins) CNCI Canadian National Collection of Insects, MHNG Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Ottawa, ON, Canada (Patrice Bouchard, Switzerland(IvanLöbl,GiulioCuccodoro) Serge Laplante) MIZA Museo del Instituto de Zoología Agrícola CUIC Cornell University Insect Collection, Francisco Fernández Yépez, Maracay, Ithaca, NY, USA (James Liebherr) Venezuela (Luis Joly) THE COLEOPTERISTS BULLETIN 69(4), 2015 581 MLPA Museo de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina description attempts to encompass the range of (Analía Lanteri, Jhon Neita) variation seen in each species. The generic and MLUH Martin Luther Universität, Halle, species descriptions were based on the following Germany (Manfred Dorn) characters: length from apex of pronotum to apex MNHN Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, of elytra (the head is not measured since it may be Paris, France (Jean Menier) variably deflexed or extended and thus give an MPEG Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, inconsistent measurement);
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