Mycotretus coronatus ( Duponchel, 1825 )

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 : 61-62

66. Mycotretus coronatus ( Duponchel, 1825)

Erotylus coronatus Duponchel, 1825: 50 . Type locality: “ Brésil ”.

Mycotretus coronatus – Lacordaire 1842: 141. — Crotch 1876: 450. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3692. — Kuhnt 1909: 75; 1911: 48. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 23. — Skelley 1998b: 15.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated ( Fig. 13A )

BRAZIL • “Campos geraés [handwritten] \ coronatus [handwritten] \ Mycotretus coronatus Duponch [handwritten] \ Lectotipo [red label, printed] \ Mycotretus coronatus (Duponchel) [handwritten] det. I. Pecci-Maddalena 2017 [printed]”; MNHN.

Remarks

New junior synonym of M. ornatus ( Duponchel, 1825) ( Fig. 14A , see below). The “Lectotipo” label is that used by Alvarenga, and was likely placed on the specimen when he studied it. We accept and validate that designation.

Figures

Fig. 13. A–D. Duponchel primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Lectotype of Erotylus coronatus Duponchel, 1825 [currently Mycotretus coronatus (Duponchel)]. B–B’. Lectotype of E. decoratus Duponchel, 1825 [currently M. decoratus (Duponchel)]. C–C’. Lectotype of E. duodecimguttatus Duponchel, 1825 [currentlyM. duodecimguttatus (Duponchel)].D–D’. Lectotype ofE. melanophthalmus Duponchel, 1825 [currently Mycomystes melanophthalmus (Duponchel)]. E–E’. Specimen of M. minutus (Duponchel, 1825) from the DZUP collection (Brazil).F–F’. Specimen of M. nigropunctatus (Duponchel, 1825) from the Brême collection (MRSN). Scale bars: A–D = 1 mm; E = 0.5 mm; F = see Material and methods.

Fig. 14. A–C, E–F. Primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Lectotype of Erotylus ornatus Duponchel [currently Mycotretus ornatus (Duponchel)]. B–B’. Lectotype of E. maculosus Duponchel, 1825 [currently M. maculosus (Duponchel)]. C–C’. Lectotype of E. sanguineus Duponchel, 1825 [currently M. sanguineus (Duponchel)]. D–D’. Topotype of M. unicolor Fauvel, 1860 from RBINS (Belgium) [synonym of Mycomystes coccineus (Lacordaire, 1842)]. E–E’. Lectotype of M. aegrotus Gorham, 1888. F–F’. Lectotype of M. alternans Gorham, 1888. Scale bars = 1 mm.