Pelidnota equatoriana Soula, 2009

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 equatoriana Soula, 2009

Pelidnota equatoriana Soula, 2009: 32, 86-87 [original combination].

Distribution.

ECUADOR: Esmeraldas, Napo, Pichincha, Santo Domingo ( Soula 2009).

Types.

The following specimens are deposited at CCECL. 1 ♂ holotype, 7 ♂ paratypes, 10 ♀ paratypes: "Pacto Equateur 4/2001 M. SOULA det 19//Holotype 2007 Pelidnota equatoriana S. Soula" (47030439); "Pacto Equateur 4/2001 M. SOULA det 19//Paratype 2007 Pelidnota equatoriana S. Soula" (47030440); "Tena (E) 9/90 [0 crossed out] 1//Paratype 2007 Pelidnota equatoriana S. Soula" (47030441); "Tena (E) 9/91//Paratype 2007 Pelidnota equatoriana S. Soula" (47030442); "Celica Pichincha Eq. III/97 M. SOULA det 19//Paratype 2007 Pelidnota equatoriana S. Soula" (47030443); Two paratypes with identical label data "Malimpia (Esmereldas [sic]) Equateur M. SOULA det 19 [obverse] II/2008//Paratype 2008 Pelidnota equatoriana S. Soula" (47030444 and 47030445); "Lita [arrow] San Lorenzo coll. - SOULA [obverse] pk 7,5 770m 15/08/93//Paratype 2007 Pelidnota equatoriana S. Soula" (47030446); "Ecuador St Domingo Avril 1982//Paratype 2007 Pelidnota equatoriana S. Soula" (47030447); "Santo Domingo Equateur M. SOULA det 19 [obverse] V/2007//Paratype 2008 Pelidnota equatoriana S. Soula" (47030448); Two paratypes with identical label data "Alluriquin - 800m. VI/2000 Equateur M. SOULA det 19//Paratype 2008 Pelidnota equatoriana S. Soula" (47030449 and 47030450); "San José Quinindé Equateur M. SOULA det 19 [obverse] 15/4/76 (Dzido)//Paratype 2008 Pelidnota equatoriana S. Soula" (47030451); "Equateur M. SOULA det 19//Paratype 2007 Pelidnota equatoriana S. Soula" (exch24); "Equateur M. SOULA det 19//Paratype 2008 Pelidnota equatoriana S. Soula" (exch25);. “Quinindé Equateur XII/91 M. SOULA det 19//Paratype 2008 Pelidnota equatoriana S. Soula" (47030452); " P. notata coll. - SOULA" // Sto Domingo (Equateur) coll. - SOULA//Paratype 2007 Pelidnota equatoriana S. Soula" (47030453). Genitalia card-mounted underneath the male holotype and seven male paratypes. Box 4618664 SOULA. The following specimen is deposited at CMNC. 1 ♀ paratype: "ECUADOR, 700' RioPalenque 47 km S. St. Domingo Feb 22-27 1976 H. & A. Howden//Paratype 2007 Pelidnota equatoriana S. Soula".

Remarks.

Soula mentions an allotype in the original description but no specimen is labeled as such in CCECL. The allotype should have label data "Pacto, Pichincha, Equateur 4/2001." These data are recorded only for the holotype and one paratype ( “Pichincha” from original description). However, the number of specimens correlates with the number in the original description. Soula cites three labels with the locality “Malimpia”, but there are only two at CCECL. No paratypes were found with the locality "Palenque Howden" as cited in the original description, but there are two non-type ♀'s with locality "Rio Palenque". The specimen labeled as " P. notata " was not included in original description.