Pelidnota osculatii Guérin-Méneville 1855: 585
An annotated checklist of the Scarabaeoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Guianas
Hielkema, Auke J.
Hielkema, Meindert A.
Insecta Mundi
2019
2019-10-25
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732
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Guerin-Meneville, 1855
Guerin-Meneville
1855
[213,798,1682,1707]
Insecta
Rutelidae
Pelidnota
Animalia
Coleoptera
150
149
Arthropoda
species
osculatii
Pelidnota osculatii Guérin-Méneville 1855: 585( Peru- NEOTYPE)
Distribution. Venezuela(EO): Kirmse and Ratcliffe 2019: 153(EO). “Amazon Basin”:Guérin- Méneville 1855: 585. Other: Ohaus 1912: 300(Colombia, Ecuador), 1934: 85 (Ecuador - as Pelidnota( Chalcoplethis) osculatii); Blackwelder 1944: 237(Ecuador); Machatschke 1972: 31(Ecuador - as Pelidnota( Chalcoplethis) osculatii); Soula 2006: 68(Colombia - as Strigidia osculatii), 2010: 33 (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru - designation NEOTYPE Pelidnota osculatii); Moore et al. 2017: 229(Colombia, Ecuador, Peru). Note. Soula (2010b: 33)designates a neotypefor Pelidnota osculatii, which he states is deposited in the MNHN. Moore et al. (2017: 229)mention they found a neotypein the Soula collection in the Musée des Confluences, Lyon, France(CCECL), but invalidate this neotypebecause according to them it has never been published. Given that the neotypedata mentioned by Soula (2010b)are identical to those mentioned by Moore et al. (2017), it seems that it has been published but that the specimen ended up in the wrong collection. This may have been caused by Soula’s sudden death in 2012, as this could have kept him from intended actions such as sending the specimen to the MNHN.