Pelidnota unicolor occidentalis in litt.; 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 unicolor occidentalis in litt.; Unavailable, invalid name

Types.

The following specimen is deposited at CCECL. 1 ♂ invalid holotype: “PÉROU CHANCHAMAYO 2000 M// Muséum Paris ex Coll. R. Oberthür 1952//Holotype 2008 Pelidnota unicolor occidentalis S. Soula//Invalid Holotype det. MR Moore ‘15” (47030807). Genitalia card-mounted underneath the invalid male holotype. Box 4618681 SOULA.

Remarks.

The name Pelidnota unicolor occidentalis Soula does not appear in the literature nor has the name been associated with a species description. This specimen is considered an invalid holotype and the name Pelidnota unicolor occidentalis is unavailable.