Patatra mathani Soula, 2008

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/E4F6BB4C-0BC6-8D14-5801-ABF75EEDCF40

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scientific name

Patatra mathani Soula, 2008
status

 

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Patatra mathani Soula, 2008: 40 [original combination].

Distribution.

BRAZIL: Pará ( Soula 2008, 2009).

Types.

According to Soula (2008), the holotype and only known specimen of Patatra mathani (which represents a monotypic genus) was from the Oberthur Collection, and thus should have been deposited in the MNHN. However, a search for the holotype was unable to find the specimen. According to A. Mantilleri (MNHN), the specimen was not deposited at MNHN (pers. comm from A. Mantilleri, Aug. 2016).

Remarks.

This species was described based on one male specimen (at MNHN). Soula (2008, 2009) stated that the species possessed characters of both pelidnotine and anticheirine scarabs, and the species was ultimately classified in among the pelidnotine scarabs ( Soula 2011). Verbatim descriptions of this taxon in two separate works ( Soula 2008, 2009) created a double case of homonymy. To stabilize the nomenclature, replacement names were proposed for both the genus and the species ( Moore and Jameson 2013), but this was incorrect and only further confused the issue. Both names, Neopatatra Moore and Jameson and Neopatatra synonyma Moore and Jameson, are unavailable, invalid names because they were not used as valid names in their original publication. Because the Soula names are objective synonyms with the same type species and type specimen, the junior synonyms will never be in a position where they will be considered a separate taxon in need of a replacement names.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

Genus

Patatra

Loc

Patatra mathani Soula, 2008

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

Patatra mathani

Soula 2008
2008