Pelidnota osculatii Guerin-Meneville , 1855

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 osculatii Guerin-Meneville, 1855

Pelidnota osculatii Guérin-Méneville, 1855: 585 [original combination].

Pelidnota (Chalcoplethis) osculatii Guérin-Méneville [new subgeneric combination by Ohaus 1918: 29].

Strigidia osculatii ( Guérin-Méneville) [new combination by Soula 2006: 68-69].

Pelidnota osculatii Guérin-Méneville [revised combination by Soula 2009: 115].

Distribution.

COLOMBIA: Boyacá, Cundinamarca ( Ohaus 1912, Restrepo et al. 2003, Soula 2010a, López-García et al. 2015). ECUADOR: Morona-Santiago, Napo, Pastaza ( Ohaus 1912, 1918, 1934b, Blackwelder 1944, Machatschke 1972, Paucar-Cabrera 2005, Soula 2010a). PERU: Loreto ( Soula 2010a).

Types.

The following specimen is deposited at CCECL. 1 invalid ♂ neotype: "Iquitos, V/2002, M. SOULA det 19//Neotype Pelidnota osculatii Gué. 2010 Soula det." (47030356). Genitalia card-mounted underneath invalid male neotype. Box 4618662 SOULA.

Remarks.

The original description of P. osculatii indicated that there were two specimens in the type series. Soula (2006) mentioned that a syntype (Soula incorrectly referred to a holotype) specimen of P. osculatii is from "versant oriental des Andes." Soula (2006) stated that he was unable to find a type of P. osculatii at MNHN. While identifying type material from the Soula collection deposited at CCECL we discovered an invalidly designated neotype of P. osculatii (label details are provided above). This neotype designation was unpublished (i.e., it does not appear anywhere in the literature) and is thus invalid.