Sorocha acutipennis (F. Bates, 1904)

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

Sorocha acutipennis (F. Bates, 1904)

Pelidnota acutipennis F. Bates, 1904: 255, 263-264 [original combination].

Pelidnota (Ganonota) acutipennis F. Bates [new subgeneric combination by Ohaus 1918: 25].

Pelidnota (Strigidia) acutipennis F. Bates [new subgeneric combination by Machatschke 1970: 157].

Pelidnota (Odontognathus) acutipennis F. Bates [new subgeneric combination by Hardy 1975: 4].

Sorocha acutipennis (F. Bates) [new combination by Soula 2006: 87].

Pelidnota (Strigidia) acutipennis F. Bates [revised combination and revised subgeneric combination by Özdikmen 2009: 145].

Sorocha acutipennis (F. Bates) [revised combination].

Distribution.

VENEZUELA: Merida, Tachira (F. Bates 1904, Ohaus 1918, 1934b, Blackwelder 1944, Machatschke 1972, Soula 2006, Krajcik 2008).

Types.

Soula designated 1 ♀ syntype, but he did not provide the depository ( Soula 2006). The holotype ♀ of P. acutipennis is at the BMNH.

Remarks.

CCECL contains a specimen of S. acutipennis labeled as a male alloréférent with the following data: 1 ♂ alloréférent: “Zea-Mérida I/2002 VENEZUELA Col. Andrés Varga// Alloréférent ♂ de Strigidia acutipennis (Oh.) M. SOULA det 2005" (47030980). Genitalia card-mounted underneath the male alloréférent. Box 4618687 SOULA. While clarifying the subgeneric classification of Pelidnota (due to homonymy of the genus-group name Odontognathus Laporte), Özdikmen (2009) listed Pelidnota acutipennis within Pelidnota (Strigidia) . We think that Özdikmen (2009) was unaware of Soula’s (2006) erection of the genus Sorocha for some species previously classified in various subgenera of Pelidnota . We classify this species in Sorocha as S. acutipennis (F. Bates) until the validity of Sorocha is evaluated by phylogenetic analysis.