Athlia plebeja Burmeister 1855

Athlia plebeja Burmeister, 1855 Figs. 36–39, 69. Original combination. Athlia plebeja Burmeister, 1855: 125. Subsequent combination. Rivera plebeja (Burmeister): Germain 1903: 392. Type locality. “ Chili ” (Burmeister 1855). Type series. Syntypes presumably at Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle, Germany (not examined). Synonym. Athlia rivera Saylor, 1946: 23. Type locality: “ Chile, Concepcion” (Saylor 1946). Type series: holotype male at CASC labeled a) “ CHILE / Concepcion / P.HerbstS.” (typeset) on upperside and “ 30.x.04.” (handwritten) on underside, b) “Moser determ. / Athlia n.sp. ” (typeset and handwritten), c) “ HOLOTYPE / Athlia / RIVERA / L.W.Saylor” (typeset and handwritten on red paper), d) “ RIVERA / Saylor / DET. / L.W. SAYLOR” (handwritten and typeset), e) “L.W. Saylor / Collection” (typeset), f) “ California Academy / of Sciences / Type / No. 7924” (typeset and handwritten), g) “Southern Neotropical Scarabs / database # AS 2617639 / Athlia plebeja / Burmeister, 1855 ♂ / DET: A.B.T. SMITH 2008 ” (typeset). One paratype at CASC erroneously labeled “ Peru ” (examined). Distribution. Fig. 69. Chile: VII Región del Libertador General Bernardo O’Higgins, VIII Región del Biobío, IX Región de la Araucanía (based on specimens from BMNH, CASC, CMNC, FMNH, MNHN, USNM). Two century-old specimens were also seen labeled “Limache” (CASC) and “ Valparaíso ” (CMNC) but we consider these records as erroneous. The Valparaíso region is far outside the distribution of this species.
Published as part of Smith, Andrew B. T. & Evans, Arthur V., 2018, Taxonomic review of Athliini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae), a new tribe of scarab beetles endemic to South America, pp. 279-308 in Zootaxa 4471 (2) on pages 289-292, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4471.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/1439674
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