Hoplopyga multipunctata (Gory & Percheron, 1833) Fig. 150 (parameres) [Gymnetis] Multipunctata. Dej.: Dejean 1833: 169 (catalog; distribution): nomen nudum [Gymnetis] Parvula. Dej.: Dejean 1833: 169 (catalog; distribution): nomen nudum [Gymnetis] Congregata. Dej.: Dejean 1833: 169 (catalog; distribution): nomen nudum [Gymnetis] Confluens. Dej.: Dejean 1833: 169 (catalog; distribution): nomen nudum Gymnetis Multi-Punctata Dej.: Gory & Percheron, 1833: 362–363 (description; distribution), plate 73, Fig. 2; Burmeister 1842: 276–277 (description; distribution; references, = G. parvula, multipunctata, congregata et confluens Dej.); Lucas 1857: 111 (distribution). Hoplopyga multipunctata Gory & Perch.: Schenkling 1921: 101 (catalog; distribution; references); Krajčík 1998: 79 (catalog; distribution; reference). Distribution: CAYENNE (Dejean 1833). BRAZIL (Dejean 1833, Gory & Percheron 1833, Burmeister 1842, Schenkling 1921, Krajčík 1998); Brésil intérieur (Lucas 1857). Material examined: BRAZIL: “Bras. / Dej.” [handwritten on white paper, not by Burmeister, glued to a hard board], 1 male [HBBA], “ multipuncta- / ta G. & P. / toncea Hbst.” [handwritten by Burmeister, pinned to the bottom of the drawer]; Rio de Janeiro: Barra de São João, 5-I-1990, C.A. Mañko leg., 1 male [ODIC] (black). Male genitalia: parameres (Fig. 150). Note 1: According to Gory & Percheron (1833), “Nous avons sous les yeux un individu auquel M. Dejean a donné le nom de Parvula; mais cet individu n'est qu'un mâle, petit à la vérité, de la Multi-Punctata. ... ... Cette espèce vient du Brésil, et fait partie de la collection des auteurs”. This leads to the question if the specimen in the Burmeister Collection, labeled “Bras. / Dej.”, is a type from the Coll. Dejean. Note 2: The specimen from Rio de Janeiro state is completely black, but its male parameres are identical to those of the male in the Burmeister Collection.

Published as part of Iorio, Osvaldo Di, 2013, A review of the Cetoniinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from Argentina and adjacent countries: systematics and geographic distributions, pp. 1-87 in Zootaxa 3668 (1) on page 81, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3668.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5266231