Pelidnota vladimalyi Moore and Jameson

Moore, Matthew Robert & Jameson, Mary Liz, 2013, Taxonomic and Nomenclatural Changes in the Pelidnotine Scarabs (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Rutelini), The Coleopterists Bulletin 67 (3), pp. 377-387 : 380

Pelidnota vladimalyi Moore and Jameson , new name

Pelidnota malyi Soula 2010a: 36–37 (original combination, valid name).

Pelidnota malyi Soula 2010a: 58 (junior primary homonym of P. malyi Soula 2010a: 36–37 ).

Pelidnota vladislavmalyi Soula 2010a: 65 (unavailable name).

Pelidnota vladislavmalyi Soula 2011: 84 (homonym (based on an unavailable name), replacement name for P. malyi Soula 2010a: 58 ).

Pelidnota vladimalyi Moore and Jameson , replacement name for P. malyi Soula 2010a: 58 .

Soula (2010a) used the name Pelidnota malyi for two separate, distinct entities from Ecuador in the same publication. Pelidnota malyi is the valid name based on the Principle of Priority (ICZN Article 52.3). In the index, Soula (2010a) used the specific epithet “ vladislavmalyi ” for the species P. malyi named on page 58. We regard the name “ P. vladislavmalyi ” as an unavailable name because it was not associated with a species description and because its continued use may lead to further nomenclatural instability (see “Unavailable Names”). Soula (2011) noted his homonym, referring to P. malyi as a “ nomen nullum ” and replaced this name with Pelidnota vladislavmalyi Soula, 2011 . Because Soula’ s (2011) replacement name ( P. vladislavmalyi ) may cause nomenclatural confusion with the previously published, unavailable name Pelidnota vladislavmalyi Soula, 2010 , we regard the 2011 replacement name as an unavailable name, and we propose the name Pelidnota vladimalyi Moore and Jameson , new name, for P. malyi Soula, 2010 .