Pelidnota polita pittieri 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 polita pittieri Soula, 2009 Unavailable, invalid name

Pelidnota polita pittieri Soula, 2009: 46 [original combination, unavailable, invalid name].

Distribution.

VENEZUELA: Aragua ( Soula 2009).

Types.

The following invalid type specimens are deposited at CCECL. 1 invalid ♂ holotype, 1 invalid ♀ allotype, 14 invalid ♂ paratypes, 2 invalid ♀ paratypes, 1 probable invalid ♀ paratype: "P.N. Henri Pittier Choroni; Venezuela V-VI/2005//Holotype 2007 Pelidnota polita pittieri S. Soula" (47030532); "P.N. Henri Pittier Choroni; Venezuela V-VI/2005//Allotype 2007 Pelidnota polita pittieri S. Soula" (47030533); twelve paratypes with identical label data "P.N. Henri Pittier Choroni; Venezuela V-VI/2005//Paratype 2007 Pelidnota polita pittieri S. Soula" (47030534 to 47030543, exch31 and exch32); "P.N. Henri Pittier Choroni; Venezuela V-VI/2005//Paratype 2007 Pelidnota polita darienensis S. Soula// Pelidnota polita pittieri Soula probable paratype det. MR Moore ’15” (47030544); "Caracas. Mus: Drews.//ZOOL. MUSEUM DK COPENHAGEN//Paratype 2008 Pelidnota polita darienensis S. Soula" (47030545); "Caracas//ZOOL. MUSEUM DK COPENHAGEN//Paratype 2008 Pelidnota polita darienensis S. Soula" (47030546); two paratypes with identical label data "N. Venezuela S. Klages 1904//Paratype 2008 Pelidnota polita pittieri S. Soula" (47030547 and 47030548). Genitalia card-mounted underneath the invalid male holotype, 5 invalid male paratypes, and 1 probable invalid female paratype. Box 4618668 SOULA.

Remarks.

The probable female paratype from P. N. Henri Pittier has a paratype label indicating that this specimen was determined as Pelidnota polita darienensis Soula. Soula (2009: 46) mentions 13 paratypes from this locality and only twelve are labeled P. polita pittieri paratypes. The matching locality data and proximity to P. polita pittieri in Box 461669 SOULA indicated this specimen is likely the 13th invalid paratype from this locality.