Pelidnota malyi Soula, 2010 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 malyi Soula, 2010 Unavailable, invalid name

Pelidnota malyi Soula, 2010a: 36-37 [original combination, unavailable, invalid name].

Distribution.

ECUADOR: Napo ( Soula 2010a).

Types.

The following invalid type specimens are deposited at CCECL. 1 invalid ♂ holotype, 1 invalid ♀ allotype, 2 invalid ♂ paratypes, 2 invalid ♀ paratypes: "Misahuali Oriente Ecuador M. SOULA det 19 [obverse] II/2006//Holotype 2010 Pelidnota malyi S. Soula" (47030169); "Misahuali Oriente Ecuador M. SOULA det 19 [obverse] II/2006//Allotype 2010 Pelidnota malyi S. Soula" (47030170); "Misahuali Oriente Ecuador M. SOULA det 19 [obverse] II/2006//Paratype Pelidnota malyi Soula 2010" (47030171); "PERU - NAPO Misahualli Tijuana 2.06 coll. V. Malý //2,-€//STRIGIDIA Sp. sp. n.?//coll. V. Malý CZ - Praha//Paratype Pelidnota malyi Soula 2010" (47030172); "ECUADOR-Napo Misahualli 450 m 17-21. 4. 93 L. & T. Racheli leg. [obverse] Chalco.//Paratype Pelidnota malyi Soula 2010" (47030173); "ECUADOR-Napo Misahualli 450 m 18-20. 10. 1993 L. & T. Racheli leg.//Paratype Pelidnota malyi Soula 2010" (47030174). Box 4618656 SOULA.

Remarks.

The specific epithet " malyi " was used for two separate, distinct species of Pelidnota in the same publication ( Soula 2010a): P. malyi Soula 2010a: 36-37, a metallic green species, and P. malyi Soula 2010a: 58, a testaceous species. Pelidnota malyi Soula 2010a: 36-37 is an unavailable name.

Soula (2010a) stated that the holotype male was labeled: "Ecuador 2-13/11.2001 Prov. Pichincha Pacto env. 860. VM lgt." Based on examination of the holotype of P. malyi Soula (at CCECL), the label data do not match the description. Rather, the holotype at CCECL is labeled identically to the paratypes of the species. This holotype label is considered invalid and was labeled as a probable paratype male. Soula (2010a: 37) provided label data for the type series, and recorded one label as "PERU (erreur évidemment) - Napo". Thus, P. malyi is known only from Ecuador (contrary to the distribution provided in Moore and Jameson (2013)).