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Two New Species and Distributional Records of Pelidnota liturella Species Group (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Pelidnota) from South America

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Two new species of the Pelidnota liturella species group are described from Brazil, Pelidnota everardoi sp. nov. and P. luciae sp. nov. The new species are included on the Pelidnota key proposed previously in the literature and an identification key is provided for the Pelidnota liturella species group. Diagnostic characters of the new species, illustrations of male genitalia, and photographs of type material are provided. Furthermore, notes about the Pelidnota liturella species group distribution and new Brazilian state records for two species are also provided: P. flavovittata (Perty, 1830) from Goiás, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo; and P. liturella liturella (Kirby, 1819) from Ceará. Finally, distributional maps for all the P. liturella species group are provided.

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We are grateful to Fundação de Amparo à Ciência e Tecnologia do Estado de Pernambuco–FACEPE for the postdoc fellowship ASF (Process: BFP-0001-2.04/21). We are grateful to Everardo Grossi (EPGC), Fernando Vaz-de-Mello (CEMT), Lúcia Massutti de Almeida (DZUP), Jane Costa (FIOC), Sérgio Ide (IBSP-IB), Marcela Monné and Miguel A. Monné (MNRJ), Freddy Bravo (MZFS), and Sônia Casari and Carlos Campanner (MZUSP) for the permission to study of the material. We are grateful to Reyjane Patricia de Oliveira of the Programa de Pós-graduação em Botânica of Departamento de Ciências Biológicas of Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana for the permission to use the equipment to capture images of Pelidnota flavovittata (Perty). PCG was funded by CNPq, Process numbers: 449366/2014-6, 424048/2018-3, and 309786/2019-3. The authors also thank the anonymous reviewers for improving the critical revision process.

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Fundação de Amparo à Ciência e Tecnologia do Estado de Pernambuco (FACEPE) (Process number: BFP-0001–2.04/21). Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) (Process numbers: 449366/2014–6, 424048/2018–3, and 309786/2019–3).

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da Silva Ferreira, A., Grossi, P.C. Two New Species and Distributional Records of Pelidnota liturella Species Group (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Pelidnota) from South America. Neotrop Entomol 51, 458–473 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-022-00960-z

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