Mycotretus decoratus ( 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 : 62

67. Mycotretus decoratus ( Duponchel, 1825)

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

Mycotretus decoratus – Lacordaire 1842: 172. — Crotch 1876: 442. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3692. — Kuhnt 1909: 76; 1911: 49. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 23.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated ( Fig. 13B )

BRAZIL • “D. Latreille [handwritten] \ LECTOTYPE [printed], Erotylus decoratus Duponchel, 1825 [red label, handwritten] \ Mycotretus decoratus Duponchel [handwritten], det. I. Pecci-Maddalena 2017 [printed]”; MRSN.

Other specimens examined

BRAZIL • 1 ♂ (dissected); “ Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ OBIDOS, Pará BRASIL [printed], I. 1962 [handwritten], F.M. Oliveira [printed] \ Mycotretus decoratus (Dup.) [handwritten] \ M. Alvarenga det. [printed] 1964 [handwritten] \ DZUP 136175 [printed]”; DZUP • 1 ♀ (dissected); “ Coleção M.Alvarenga [printed] \ TABATINGA,Amazonas BRASIL [printed], Out. [handwritten] -1956 [printed], F.M. Oliveira [printed] \ DZUP 136177 [printed]”; DZUP .

Distribution

North Brazil.

Remarks

The lectotype is kept in the Collection of M. le marquis de Brême (MRSN) and has a green label “D. Latreille”. As pointed out by Duponchel (1825) “Cette espèce, qui n’avoit pas encore été décrite, fait partie de la collection de M. Latreille”.

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.