Mycotretus quadrioculatus Alvarenga, 1983

Pecci-Maddalena, Italo Salvatore de Castro, Lopes-Andrade, Cristiano & Skelley, Paul, 2023, Catalogue of Mycotretus Lacordaire, 1842 (Coleoptera: Erotylidae: Tritomini): an annotated, illustrated and historical approach, European Journal of Taxonomy 876 (1), pp. 1-182 : 19-20

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https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.876.2149

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scientific name

Mycotretus quadrioculatus Alvarenga, 1983
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6. Mycotretus quadrioculatus Alvarenga, 1983

Mycotretus quadrioculatus Alvarenga, 1983: 585 . Type locality: “ BRASIL, Pará, Tucuruí”.

Mycotretus quadrioculatus – Alvarenga 1994: 33. — Pecci-Maddalena et al. 2021a: 955.

Primary type

Holotype ( Fig. 2F View Fig )

BRAZIL • “ Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ HOLOTIPO [red label, printed] \ Tucurui Pará , Brasil, I.1979, M. Alvarenga [printed] \ M [printed] \ Mycotretus quadrioculatus m. [handwritten] M. Alvarenga det. [printed] 1983 [handwritten]”; MNRJ.

Other specimens examined

BRAZIL • 1 ♂ (dissected); “ Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ Paratipo [red label, printed] \ Tucurui Pará, Brasil, I.1979, M. Alvarenga [printed] \ M [printed] \ Mycotretus quadrioculatus m. [handwritten] M. Alvarenga det. [printed] 1983 [handwritten]”; MNRJ • 1 ♀ (dissected); “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ Paratipo [red label, printed] \ Tucurui Pará, Brasil, I.1979, M.Alvarenga [printed] \ M [printed] \ Mycotretus quadrioculatus m. [handwritten] M. Alvarenga det. [printed] 1983 [handwritten]; MNRJ.

Distribution

North Brazil ( Alvarenga 1994).

Remarks

Type locality, additional data: Tucuruí, in the state of Pará, North Brazil.

Alvarenga M. 1983. Seis especies novas do genero Mycotretus Chevrolat, 1837, da regiao amazonica (Coleoptera, Erotylidae). Acta Amazonica 13 (3 - 4): 583 - 589. https: // doi. org / 10.1590 / 1809 - 439219831334583

Alvarenga M. 1994. Catalogo dos Erotylidae (Coleoptera) Neotropicais. Revista brasileira de Zoologia 11 (1): 1 - 175. https: // doi. org / 10.1590 / S 0101 - 81751994000100001

Pecci-Maddalena I. S. C., Lopes-Andrade C. & Skelley P. 2021 a. The metendosternite and penile flagellum: two unexplored character systems of pleasing fungus beetles (Coleoptera: Erotylidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 193: 953 - 972. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / zoolinnean / zlaa 152

Gallery Image

Fig. 2. Alvarenga holotypes (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Mycotretus bistrioculatus Alvarenga, 1983. B–B’. M. fragosoi Alvarenga, 1983. C–C’. M. lopesi Alvarenga, 1989. D–D’. M. luizi Alvarenga, 1983. E–E’. M. octoculatus Alvarenga, 1983. F–F’. M. quadrioculatus Alvarenga, 1983. Scale bars: A–B, D–F = 0.5 mm; C = 1 mm.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Erotylidae

Genus

Mycotretus