Sorocha similis (Ohaus, 1908)

Moore, Matthew R., Jameson, Mary L., Garner, Beulah H., Audibert, Cedric, Smith, Andrew B. T. & Seidel, Matthias, 2017, Synopsis of the pelidnotine scarabs (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Rutelinae, Rutelini) and annotated catalog of the species and subspecies, ZooKeys 666, pp. 1-349 : 1

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.666.9191

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B3C377E8-BBB1-4F32-8AEC-A2C22D1E625A

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/20FA2A29-D3F9-1FE3-0FBC-E65F2E427385

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scientific name

Sorocha similis (Ohaus, 1908)
status

 

Sorocha similis (Ohaus, 1908) View in CoL

Pelidnota similis Ohaus, 1908b: 400-401 [original combination].

Pelidnota (Ganonota) similis Ohaus [new subgeneric combination by Ohaus 1934b: 82].

Pelidnota (Strigidia) similis Ohaus [new subgeneric combination by Machatschke 1970: 157].

Pelidnota (Odontognathus) similis Ohaus [new subgeneric combination by Hardy 1975: 4].

Sorocha similis (Ohaus) [new combination by Soula 2006: 89-90].

Pelidnota (Strigidia) similis Ohaus [revised combination and revised subgeneric combination by Özdikmen 2009: 145].

Sorocha similis (Ohaus) [revised combination].

Distribution.

ECUADOR: Morona-Santiago, Zamora Chinchipe (1908b, 1918, 1925, 1934b, Blackwelder 1944, Machatschke 1972, Paucar-Cabrera 2005, Soula 2006, Krajcik 2008). PERU: Amazonas ( Soula 2006, Ratcliffe et al. 2015).

Types.

1 possible ♂ holotype of Pelidnota similis Ohaus at ZMHB (Fig. 103 View Figure 103 ). Soula (2006) recorded 1 ♀ holotype, but he did not provide the institutional depository.

Remarks.

While clarifying the subgeneric classification of Pelidnota (due to homonymy of the genus-group name Odontognathus Laporte), Özdikmen (2009) listed Pelidnota similis within Pelidnota (Strigidia) . We think that Özdikmen (2009) was unaware of Soula’s (2006) erection of the genus Sorocha for some species previously classified in various subgenera of Pelidnota . We classify this species in Sorocha as S. similis (Ohaus) until the validity of Sorocha is evaluated by phylogenetic analysis.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

Genus

Sorocha

Loc

Sorocha similis (Ohaus, 1908)

Moore, Matthew R., Jameson, Mary L., Garner, Beulah H., Audibert, Cedric, Smith, Andrew B. T. & Seidel, Matthias 2017
2017
Loc

Pelidnota similis

Ohaus 1908
1908
Loc

Pelidnota (Ganonota) similis

Ohaus 1908
1908
Loc

Pelidnota (Strigidia) similis

Ohaus 1908
1908
Loc

Pelidnota (Odontognathus) similis

Ohaus 1908
1908
Loc

Pelidnota (Strigidia) similis

Ohaus 1908
1908