Mecopelidnota gerardi Soula, 2008

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

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.666.9191
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B3C377E8-BBB1-4F32-8AEC-A2C22D1E625A
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scientific name	Mecopelidnota gerardi Soula, 2008
status

Treatment

Mecopelidnota gerardi Soula, 2008: 25-26 [original combination].

Distribution.

ECUADOR: Azuay ( Soula 2008).

Types.

Soula (2008) stated that the holotype male, allotype female, and a paratype series were deposited in his personal collection. We did not find these specimens at CCECL. Additional paratypes were deposited at PAPC and Gérard Duranton’s collection ( Soula 2008).