Sorocha similis (Ohaus, 1908)

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	Sorocha similis (Ohaus, 1908)
status

Treatment

Pelidnota similis Ohaus, 1908b: 400-401 [original combination].

Pelidnota (Ganonota) similis Ohaus [new subgeneric combination by Ohaus 1934b: 82].

Pelidnota (Strigidia) similis Ohaus [new subgeneric combination by Machatschke 1970: 157].

Pelidnota (Odontognathus) similis Ohaus [new subgeneric combination by Hardy 1975: 4].

Sorocha similis (Ohaus) [new combination by Soula 2006: 89-90].

Pelidnota (Strigidia) similis Ohaus [revised combination and revised subgeneric combination by Özdikmen 2009: 145].

Sorocha similis (Ohaus) [revised combination].

Distribution.

ECUADOR: Morona-Santiago, Zamora Chinchipe (1908b, 1918, 1925, 1934b, Blackwelder 1944, Machatschke 1972, Paucar-Cabrera 2005, Soula 2006, Krajcik 2008). PERU: Amazonas ( Soula 2006, Ratcliffe et al. 2015).

Types.

1 possible ♂ holotype of Pelidnota similis Ohaus at ZMHB (Fig. 103 View Figure 103 ). Soula (2006) recorded 1 ♀ holotype, but he did not provide the institutional depository.

Remarks.

While clarifying the subgeneric classification of Pelidnota (due to homonymy of the genus-group name Odontognathus Laporte), Özdikmen (2009) listed Pelidnota similis 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. similis (Ohaus) until the validity of Sorocha is evaluated by phylogenetic analysis.