Taxonomic changes resulting from a review of the types of Australian Anoplognathini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae) housed in Swedish natural history collections Author Seidel, Matthias 0000-0002-4913-8778 Centrum für Naturkunde, Universität Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, Hamburg, Germany matthias. seidel @ uni-hamburg. de; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4913 - 8778 matthias.seidel@uni-hamburg.de Author Reid, Chris A. M. 0000-0003-1899-9839 Australian Museum Research Institute, Australian Museum, 1 William Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2010 chris. reid @ austmus. gov. au; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 1899 - 9839 chris.reid@austmus.gov.au text Zootaxa 2021 2021-01-14 4908 2 225 238 journal article 8831 10.11646/zootaxa.4908.2.4 10415730-8d4c-4d20-b136-2bab24de103f 1175-5326 4438339 14E0A836-320B-49C7-A014-E9257EACD0FD Anoplognathus brunnipennis (Gyllenhal, 1817) Rutela brunnipennis Gyllenhal, 1817 (in Schönherr 1817: 62 ) Rutela chloropyra Drapiez, 1819: 44 ; new synonym Rutela chloropyga Thunberg, 1822: 311 ; new synonym Anoplognathus nitidulus Boisduval, 1835: 176 ; Ohaus 1918: 170 ; new synonym Types . Rutela brunnipennis Gyllenhal, 1817 : lectotype (present designation): ♀ : “N: Holland . / Hooker. // NHRS- JLKB / 000029806 ” (NHRS); Rutela chloropyga Thunberg, 1822 : lectotype (present designation): ♀ : “Uppsala Univ. Zool. Mus. / Thunbergsaml. nr. 3132 / Rutela chloropyga / TYP” (UUZM). Remarks . Lectotypes are designated here for Anoplognathus brunnipennis ( Fig. 1 A–D) and Rutela chloropyga ( Fig. 1 E–H) to fix their identities. Type material of A. brunnipennis was not seen by Carne (1957) in his revision of the genus. Examination of Gyllenhal’s lectotype makes it clear that the species was misidentified by Carne and is conspecific with A. chloropyrus ( Drapiez, 1819 ) , which was described in detail and has been consistently interpreted by subsequent authors ( e.g. , Carne 1957 ). Therefore, A. chloropyrus is a junior synonym of A. brunnipennis . The lectotype of Rutela chloropyga ( Fig. 1 E–H) is also conspecific with A. brunnipennis and therefore these names are placed in synonymy. The validity of the synonymization of A. nitidulus with A. chloropyrus as proposed by Ohaus (1918) and subsequently listed in Carne (1957) , was not examined in this work. Anoplognathus brunnipennis occurs from Victoria to southeastern Queensland and is a common species around Sydney (AMS). It is distinguished by the rough surfaced but glabrous and brilliant green pygidium ( Reid & Smith 2016 ; Burleigh & Reid 2017 ).