Gymnetis pudibunda Burmeister 1866
Creators: name: Iorio, Osvaldo Di
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cetoniidae
Gymnetis
Gymnetis pudibunda

description: Gymnetis pudibunda Burmeister, 1866
Figs. 9–18 (natural history)
Gymnetis pudibunda Burmeister, 1866: Hayward 1942: 14 (natural history); Willemstein 1978: 27 (distribution, natural history, reference).
Paragymnetis pudibunda Burmeister: Hayward 1960: 24 (natural history); Di Iorio 2003: 180 (catalog, distribution, natural history); Di Iorio 2004a: 184 (catalog, natural history, references).
Paragymnetis flavomarginata pudibunda Burmeister: Turienzo & Di Iorio 2008: 29 (predator).
Literature food record. ARGENTINA: Tucumán: locality not stated, “in adult stage feeding leaves of a leguminous plant” (translated from Spanish) (Hayward 1942, 1960); Leguminosae (Willemstein 1978).
New food records. ARGENTINA: Chaco: San Bernardo, no date, P. de Maczezuk leg., 2 exx. (ODIC), feeding on ripened figs, Ficus carica, on the plant; Entre Ríos: Paraná, on fruits of Prunus domestica and Pyrus communis (M.L. Ríos de Saluso, personal observation); Buenos Aires: Grand Bourg, 30-XII-2009, Di Iorio leg., 1 ex. (ODIC), feeding on pollen of a male cone of Cycas revoluta (Cycadaceae); José C. Paz, summer 2010–2011, 1 ex., feeding on an ripened “black fig”, Ficus carica, on the plant (Figs. 17–18); Reserva Ecológica de Vicente López, 7- I-2012, 1 ex., photograph by Rocío González (Fig. 15), XII-2012 to I-2013, L. Damer & Di Iorio leg., 15 exx. (ODIC) (Table 1), feeding on sap from larval and adult galleries of Megaplatypus mutatus (Chapuis, 1825) (Coleoptera: Platypodidae) in boles of Salix humboldtiana (Salicaceae) (Figs. 9–14, 16); without locality and date, 1 ex., feeding on “white figs” (Fig. 19).
Note. A first male cone of Cycas revoluta, produced in the summer 2009–2010, was visited by G. pudibunda alone. A second male cone, produced in the summer 2012–2013, was visited only by Retrachydes thoracicus (Olivier, 1789) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), 16-I-2013, one female (ODIC). Only one male plant of C. revoluta is known in the country, located in the Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria at Castelar, province of Buenos Aires. The plant examined here constitutes the second male known in the country.
Bait-traps. ARGENTINA: Entre Ríos: Liebig, I– II-1997, 30 exx., feeding in banana bait-traps (Di Iorio 2003), 10-I-1997, Di Iorio leg., 1 ex. (ODIC), feeding in banana bait-trap; Ibicuy, I– II-2012, C. Ufor leg., 2 exx. (CUJCP), 2 exx. (ODIC), feeding in banana bait-traps; Capital Federal: Agronomía, A. Fortino leg., 19-XII-2011, 2 exx. (AFBA), 2-I-2012, 1 ex. (AFBA), I-2013, 12 exx. (AFBA), in banana bait traps; Ciudad Universitaria, summer 2010–2011, Di Iorio leg., 93 exx. (ODIC) (Table 1), XII-2012, 4 exx. (ODIC), in banana bait-traps (Table 1).
Predator. Anumbius annumbi (Vieillot, 1817) (Aves: Furnariidae)
ARGENTINA: Buenos Aires: Campo de Mayo, 5-II-2006, Turienzo & Di Iorio leg., apical fragment of left elytron inside a nest (Turienzo & Di Iorio 2008), see in Discussion: Adult predators.
description: Published as part of Iorio, Osvaldo Di, 2014, A review of the natural history of adult Cetoniinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from Argentina and adjacent countries, pp. 281-318 in Zootaxa 3790 (2) on pages 291-292, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3790.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/250073