Mecopelidnota bondili in litt.; Unavailable, invalid name

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

Mecopelidnota bondili in litt.; Unavailable, invalid name

Types.

The following specimens are deposited at CCECL. 1 invalid ♂ paratype: “Oña, Equateur 2500m II/2001 M. SOULA det 19//Paratype Mecopelidnota bondili Sou. 2007 Soula" (47031097)// Invalid paratype det. M. R. Moore ‘15”. Genitalia card-mounted (only apex of aedeagus) underneath the invalid male paratype. Box 4618691 SOULA.

Remarks.

The name Mecopelidnota bondili Soula has never been associated with a species description or holotype designation in the literature. This type specimen of Mecopelidnota bondili is thus invalid.