Pelidnota arnaudi 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 arnaudi Soula, 2009 Unavailable, invalid name

Pelidnota arnaudi Soula, 2009: 32, 72-73 [original combination, unavailable, invalid name].

Distribution.

BRAZIL: Espírito Santo, São Paulo ( Soula 2009).

Types.

The following invalid type specimens are deposited at CCECL. 1 ♂ invalid holotype, 1 ♀ invalid allotype, 17 ♂ invalid paratypes, 1 probable ♂ invalid paratype, 1 ♀ invalid paratype: "Paulinia, São Paulo 12/95 M. SOULA det 19//Holotype 2008 Pelidnota arnaudi S. Soula" (47030564); "Paulinia, Sao Paulo M. SOULA det 19 [obverse] 12/95//Allotype 2008 Pelidnota arnaudi S. Soula" (47030565); four paratypes with identical label data (once São is spelled Sao): "Paulinia, São Paulo 12/95 M. SOULA det 19//Paratype 2008 Pelidnota arnaudi S. Soula" (47030566 to 47030569); "Paulinia 12/95 Sao Paulo M. SOULA det 19//Paratype 2008 Pelidnota arnaudi S. Soula" (47030570); nine paratypes with identical label data: "Esp. Santo 7/III/97 coll. - SOULA//Paratype 2008 Pelidnota arnaudi S. Soula" (47030571 to 47030577, exch33 and exch34); "Esp. Santo 7/III/97 coll. - SOULA//Probable paratype Pelidnota arnaudi Soula det. MR Moore '15// Pelidnota arnaudi Soula Paratype probable" (47030578); three invalid paratypes with identical label data: "Nova Friburgo Rio, XI/2008//Paratype 2009 Pelidnota arnaudi S. Soula//Invalid Paratype Pelidnota arnaudi Soula det. MR. Moore ‘15” (47030579 and 47030581); " Pelidnota glauca Oliv. Brésil //Paratype Soula//Invalid paratype See Soula 2009:73 det. MR Moore ‘15” (47030582). Genitalia card-mounted underneath the invalid male holotype, twelve invalid male paratypes, the probable invalid male paratype and one invalid female paratype. Box 4618670 SOULA.

Remarks.

Soula (2009) reported ten P. arnaudi Soula paratypes from Espírito Santo, Brazil. Box 4618670 at CCECL contains 9 labeled paratypes from this locality with another specimen, not labeled as a paratype, from this locality. This specimen is considered a probable male paratype of P. arnaudi ( Soula 2009). Additionally, this series contained a specimen without locality data and an undated, blank Marc Soula paratype label. This male specimen is considered an invalid paratype. Three specimens labeled as being from "Nova Friburgo, Rio, XI/2008" were included in the Box 4618670 Soula near the type series of P. arnaudi rioensis . These specimens were labeled as paratypes of P. arnaudi and are invalid based on Soula (2009). These specimens were probably mislabeled and were likely intended to be paratypes of P. arnaudi rioensis Soula.