Pelidnota raingeardi Soula, 2009 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

Pelidnota raingeardi Soula, 2009 Unavailable, invalid name

Pelidnota raingeardi Soula, 2009: 33, 97 [original combination, unavailable, invalid name].

Distribution.

ECUADOR: Napo ( Soula 2009).

Types.

The following invalid type specimens are deposited at CCECL. 1 invalid ♂ holotype, 1 invalid ♀ allotype, 13 invalid ♂ paratypes, 4 invalid ♀ paratypes: "Napo - Coca Ecuador VIII-1982 Onoré leg.//Holotype 2008 Pelidnota raingeardi Soula" (47030651); "Napo - Coca Ecuador VIII-1982 Onoré leg.//Allotype 2008 Pelidnota raingeardi Soula" (47030652); three invalid female paratypes with identical label data: "Napo - Coca Ecuador VIII-1982 Onoré leg.//Paratype 2008 Pelidnota raingeardi S. Soula" (47030653 to 47030655); three invalid paratypes with identical label data: "Baeza (Eq.) 08/91 coll. - SOULA//Paratype 2008 Pelidnota raingeardi S. Soula" (47030656 to 47030658); "Tena [arrow] Loreto (E) pk 30 8/90//Paratype 2008 Pelidnota raingeardi Soula" (47030659); "Tena [arrow] Loreto (E) 7/90//Paratype 2008 Pelidnota raingeardi Soula" (47030660); "Tena (Equateur) 05/91//Paratype 2008 Pelidnota raingeardi Soula" (47030661);"Tena (E) 9/90 pk 30 //Paratype 2008 Pelidnota raingeardi Soula" (47030662); "[arrow] Loreto (E) 8/90//Paratype 2008 Pelidnota raingeardi Soula" (exch37); "Loreto (E) 9/90//Paratype 2008 Pelidnota raingeardi Soula" (47030663); "San Jorge? (E) 8/90 [obverse] Equateur!//Paratype 2008 Pelidnota raingeardi Soula" (47030664); "Misahuali 9/91//Paratype 2008 Pelidnota raingeardi Soula" (47030665); "Misahuali 9/91//Paratype 2008 Pelidnota raingeardi Soula" (47030665); "Piste Puyo Macas P.L. Rio Pastaza (800m) 30/7/88 Pastaza (E) [obverse] 30/7/88 Pastaza (E)//Paratype 2008 Pelidnota raingeardi Soula" (47030666); "Route de Baños E 30/7/88 Macas Rio Pastaza [obverse] Rio Pastaza//Paratype 2008 Pelidnota raingeardi Soula" (47030667); "Rurrerabaque (sic) Bolivie M. SOULA det 19 [obverse] II/98//Paratype 2008 Pelidnota raingeardi Soula//Invalid Paratype Pelidnota raingeardi Soula det. MR Moore ‘15” (47030668). Genitalia mounted underneath the invalid male holotype and ten invalid male paratypes. Box 4618678 SOULA.

Remarks.

Box 4618678 SOULA contains a male specimen from Ruzzezbaque, Bolivia labeled as a paratype of Pelidnota raingeardi Soula. Soula (2009) does not list this specimen, or any specimens from Bolivia, as being part of the type series of P. raingeardi and thus this specimen is an invalid paratype. This male specimen is very different (small and brown) from the relatively large, green specimens in the P. raingeardi type series. This specimen was likely accidentally labeled as a paratype.