Pelidnota lavalettei Soula, 2008 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

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/B4DBB0D7-FD17-7249-B7F9-AA2C32609F0B

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scientific name

Pelidnota lavalettei Soula, 2008 Unavailable, invalid name
status

 

Pelidnota lavalettei Soula, 2008 Unavailable, invalid name View in CoL

Pelidnota lavalettei Soula, 2008: 39 [original combination, unavailable, invalid name].

Distribution.

FRENCH GUIANA ( Soula 2008, 2009, 2010c).

Types.

The following type specimen is deposited at CCECL. 1 ♂ holotype: "Guyane fr. Est. du dép. M. SOULA det. 20//Holotype 2008 Pelidnota lavalettei S. Soula//Holotype of P. fabricelavalettei Soula 2009 det. M. R. Moore 2014" (47030132). Genitalia card-mounted underneath holotype. Box 4618654 SOULA.

Remarks.

This specimen was the holotype specimen for two species: P. lavalettei Soula 2008 (unavailable name) and P. fabricelavalettei Soula 2009. Pelidnota lavalettei Soula 2008 could have been the senior synonym of P. lavalettei Soula 2009, however, the name is unavailable per ICZN Article 16.4. The valid name for this species is Pelidnota fabricelavalettei Soula 2009. The genitalia of this holotype specimen appear to be slightly broken or deformed at the apex.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

Genus

Pelidnota

Loc

Pelidnota lavalettei Soula, 2008 Unavailable, invalid name

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

Pelidnota lavalettei

Soula 2008
2008