Pelidnota genieri (Soula, 2006)

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 genieri (Soula, 2006)

Strigidia genieri Soula, 2006: 76 [original combination].

Pelidnota genieri Soula [new combination by Soula 2009: 115].

Distribution.

VENEZUELA: Tachira Betania ( Soula 2006).

Types.

The following specimen is deposited at CMNC. 1 ♂ holotype: "Venezuela-Tachi-na. 2425 m. 16-20-III-1983//Exp. Instituto Zoologia Agricola Fac. Agronomia//Betania via Paramo El Tama//Collection François Génier //Holotype Strigidia genieri S. 2006 Soula".

Remarks.

Strigidia genieri Soula, 2006 was transferred to Pelidnota by Soula (2009), thus creating a case of secondary homonymy with Pelidnota genieri Soula, 2009 (ICZN Article 52.1) making the name invalid and requiring a replacement name. Pelidnota francoisgenieri (= P. punctata [Linnaeus]) was proposed as a replacement name for Pelidnota genieri Soula, 2009 ( Moore and Jameson 2013).