Mycotretus opalescens 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 : 44-45

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41. Mycotretus opalescens Crotch, 1876

Mycotretus opalescens Crotch, 1876: 444 . Type locality: “Santarem” [Santarém, in the state of Pará, North Brazil. Type locality not clearly separated from other localities in the original description, although it is unequivocally mentioned on the type label].

Mycotretus pelliciens Kirsch, 1876: 100 . Type locality: “ Peru ” syn. nov. ( Fig. 23A).

Mycotretus opalescens – Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3694. — Kuhnt 1909: 76; 1911: 51. — Blackwelder 1945: 467. — Delkeskamp 1957: 99. — Alvarenga 1994: 31. — Skelley 1998b: 16. — McHugh & Chaboo 2015: 278.

Mycotretus pelliciens – Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3694. — Kuhnt 1909: 76; 1911: 52. — Mader 1942: 174; 1951: 219. — Blackwelder 1945: 467. — Alvarenga 1994: 32. — McHugh & Chaboo 2015: 278.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated ( Fig. 8F)

BRAZIL • “TYPE [blue label, printed] \ TYPE. [printed], opalescens Santar. B. [handwritten] \ LECTOTYPE [printed], Mycotretus opalescens Crotch, 1876 [red label, handwritten]”; UMZC.

Other specimens examined

Paralectotypes

BRAZIL • 2 specs; “blue square [unwritten] \ Bates [printed] \ PARATYPE [blue label, printed] \ PARALECTOTYPE [printed], Mycotretus opalescens Crotch, 1876 [yellow label, handwritten]”; UMZC • 1 spec.; “ PARATYPE [blue label, printed] \ green square [unwritten] \ Bates [printed] \ PARALECTOTYPE [printed], Mycotretus opalescens Crotch, 1876 [yellow label, handwritten]”; UMZC • 1 spec.; “ PARATYPE [blue label, printed] \ Bates [printed] \ PARALECTOTYPE [printed], Mycotretus opalescens Crotch, 1876 [yellow label, handwritten]”; UMZC .

Additional material

BRAZIL • 1 spec.; “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ Homeotipo [red label, printed] \ TEFE, Amazonas BRASIL, 27 a 31-VII-1956, M. Alvarenga legit [printed] \ Comparado com tipo [printed] Mycotretus opalescens Crotch, 1876 [handwritten] M. Alvarenga det. 1971 [printed] \ 1964 [printed] \ DZUP 136194 [printed]”; DZUP • 1 spec.; “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ Estirão do Equador, Amazonas, Brasil X.1979, M. Alvarenga [printed] \ M [printed] \ mycotr. 723 [handwritten] \ peliciens? [handwritten]”; MNRJ • 1 spec.; “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ TEFE, Amazonas BRASIL, 27 a 31-VII-1956, M. Alvarenga legit [printed] \ DZUP 136195 [printed]”; DZUP.

BOLIVIA • 1 spec.; “ BOLIVIA, tropica Region CHAPARÉ (400 mtr.) DIRINGS [front] JUN 1954 [back] [printed] \ Mycotretus opalescens Crotch [printed] \ Mycotretus opalescens [handwritten]”; MZSP • 1 spec.; “ BOLIVIA, tropica Region CHAPARÉ (400 mtr.) DIRINGS [front] JUN 1954 [back] [printed] \ Mycotretus opalescens Crotch [printed]”; MZSP .

Distribution

Bolivia, North Brazil, Peru.

Remarks

Mycotretus opalescens differs from M. pelliciens especially in the two central and elongated, barely separated pronotal spots and the basal elytral band with a small yellowish area close to the humeral angle. Aside from these small differences in coloration, which is expected to occur in conspecific Mycotretus from different localities, there is no morphological difference between these species to consider them separated entities.

References

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

Delkeskamp K. 1957. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Insektenfauna Boliviens. Teil III. Coleoptera II. Erotylidae. (22. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Erotylidae (Col. )). Veroffentlichungen der zoologischen Staatssammlung Munchen 5: 93 - 116.

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Kirsch T. F. W. 1876. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der peruanischen Kaferfauna. Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift 20: 81 - 133.

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Mader L. 1942. Erotylidae (Col.). In: Titschack (ed.) Beitrage zur Fauna Perus. G. Fischer, Hamburg.

Mader L. 1951. Die Erotyliden von Peru (Col.). Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey Tutzing bei Munchen 2 (1): 197 - 225.

McHugh J. V. & Chaboo C. S. 2015. Beetles (Coleoptera) of Peru: a survey of the families. Erotylidae Latreille, 1802. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 88 (2): 274 - 282. https: // doi. org / 10.2317 / kent- 88 - 02 - 274 - 282.1

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