Pelidnota malyi Soula, 2010

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 malyi Soula, 2010

Pelidnota malyi Soula 2010a: 58 [original combination].

Pelidnota vladimalyi [new replacement name by Moore and Jameson 2013: 380].

Pelidnota malyi Soula [revised status].

Distribution.

ECUADOR: Imbabura ( Soula 2010a).

Types.

The holotype ♂ is deposited at the Malý collection ( Soula 2010a). The following specimens are deposited at CCECL. 2 ♂ paratypes with identical label data: "ECU. IMBABURA PACTO env. 700-1150m nr. Rio Guayllbamba 2. - 13. 11. 2001 Vl Malý lgt. E - 39//Paratype 2010 Pelidnota malyi S. Soula// Pelidnota vladimalyi Moore & Jameson det. M. R. Moore 2014 2013" (47030461 and 47030462) (Fig. 74 ). Genitalia card-mounted underneath the two male paratypes.

Remarks.

The species name P. vladimalyi was a replacement name for a homonym that Soula created by using the specific epithet " malyi " twice for two separate, distinct taxa in the genus Pelidnota ( Moore and Jameson 2013), both of which are from Ecuador (not Peru and Ecuador, as stated in Moore and Jameson [2013]). The valid species P. malyi Soula (2010a: 36-37) was named for a metallic green species and P. vladimalyi is a testaceous species. In a slip of the pen, Soula used the specific epithet “vladislavmalyi” in reference to " malyi " described on page 58 ( Soula 2010a). For this reason, "P. vladislavmalyi" was regarded as as an unavailable name ( Moore and Jameson 2013). Soula later noted his error of homonymy (2011), and replaced this name with "P. vladislavmalyi Soula, 2011". To avoid confusion and further nomenclatural stability, however, the name P. vladimalyi Moore and Jameson was proposed for P. malyi Soula, 2010a: 58 ( Moore and Jameson 2013). However, because Pelidnota malyi Soula, 2010a: 36-37 is an unavailable name (see section on unavailable Pelidnota names), the replacement name P. vladimalyi is invalid. We correct this herein as P. malyi Soula, revised status.

Figures

Figure 74. Pelidnota malyi Soula male paratype from CCECL. A Dorsal habitus B Male genitalia, dorsal view C Specimen labels.