Mycotretus cruciger Crotch, 1876

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 : 32

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scientific name	Mycotretus cruciger Crotch, 1876
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22. Mycotretus cruciger Crotch, 1876

Mycotretus cruciger Crotch, 1876: 452 . Type locality: Unknown.

Mycotretus cruciger – Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3692. — Kuhnt 1909:74; 1911:49. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 23. — Skelley 1998b: 17.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated ( Fig. 5E View Fig )

UNKNOWN COUNTRY • “TYPE [blue label, printed] \ TYPE. [printed], cruciger [?, handwritten] \ LECTOTYPE [printed], Mycotretus cruciger Crotch, 1876 [red label, handwritten]”; UMZC.

Other specimens examined

BRAZIL • 1 ♀ (dissected); “ Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ Homeotipo [red label, printed] \ Maturaca, AM, alto Rio Cauaburi , 12–17.XII.1962, J. Bechyné col. [printed] \ Comparado com tipo [printed] Mycotretus cruciger Crotch, 1876 [handwritten] M. Alvarenga det. 1971 [printed] \ 1750- A [handwritten]”; MNRJ • 1 ♀ (dissected); “ Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ Maturacá Rio Negro [printed] 14.12 [handwritten] -196[printed]2[handwritten] \ Brasil, A M, J.&B. Bechyne [printed] \ Mycotretus cruciger Crotch, 1876 [handwritten] M. Alvarenga det. [printed] 1984 [handwritten]”; MNRJ .

Distribution

Northern Brazil.

References

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

Blackwelder R. E. 1945. Checklist of the coleopterous insects of Mexico, Central America, the West Indies and South America. Part 3. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 185 (3): 343 - 550. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 03629236.185.3

Crotch G. R. 1876. A revision of the coleopterous family Erotylidae. Cistula Entomologica 1: 377 - 572. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 9222

Gemminger M. & Harold E. 1876. Familia LXX. Erotylidae. In: Gemminger M. & Harold E. (eds) Catalogus Coleopterorum hucusque descriptorum synonymicus et systematicus. Vol. 10. Gummi, Monachii [Munich]. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 9089

Kuhnt P. 1909. Coleoptera, fam. Erotylidae, subfam. Erotylinae. In: Wytsman P. A. G. (ed.) Genera Insectorum 88. Available from https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 43211062 [accessed 14 Feb. 2023].

Kuhnt P. 1911. Erotylidae. In: Junk W. & Schenkling S. (eds) Coleopterorum Catalogus Pars 34. W. Junk, Berlin. Available from https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 59206376 [accessed 14 Apr. 2023].

Skelley P. E. 1998 b. A catalogue of the Crotch collection of Erotylidae (Coleoptera). Annales Zoologici 48 (1 / 2): 1 - 44.

Figures

Fig. 5. Crotch primary types (dorsal, labels) cont. A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus chontalesi Crotch, 1873. B–B’. Lectotype of M. cinctiger Crotch, 1876. C–C’. Lectotype of M. corallipennis Crotch, 1876 [synonym of Mycomystes apicalis (Lacordaire, 1842)]. D–D’. Lectotype of M. cordiger Crotch, 1876. E–E’. Lectotype of M. cruciger Crotch, 1876. F–F’. Lectotype of M. decorus Crotch, 1876. Scale bars = 1 mm.