Mycotretus dorsofasciatus Lacordaire, 1842

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 : 125

157. Mycotretus dorsofasciatus Lacordaire, 1842

Mycotretus dorsofasciatus Lacordaire, 1842: 173 . Type locality: “ Brésil ”.

Mycotretus nugator Lacordaire, 1842: 174 . Type locality: “Cayenne” [ French Guiana] syn. nov. ( Fig. 33G).

Mycotretus dorsofasciatus – Crotch 1876: 444. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3692. — Kuhnt 1909: 75; 1911: 49. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 24. — Skelley 1998b: 16.

Mycotretus nugator – Crotch 1876: 445. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3694. — Kuhnt 1909: 75; 1911: 51. — Blackwelder 1945: 467. — Alvarenga 1994: 31.

Type specimen

Not located.

Other specimens examined

BRAZIL • 1 spec. ( Fig. 28C); “ Bras [handwritten] \ TYPE. [printed, crossed out] dorsofasciat Reiche [handwritten]”; UMZC • 2 ♂♂ (dissected); “ Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ REPRÊSA RIO GRANDE, Guanabara BRASIL [printed], XII. 1977 [handwritten], F.M. Oliveira [printed] \ Mycotretus dorsofasciatus Lac. 1842 [handwritten] M. Alvarenga det. [printed] 1984 [handwritten]”; MNRJ • 1 ♂ (dissected); “ Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ Tiriós, Pará Brasil, I–1963, A. Machado [printed] \ Mycotretus nugator Lac, 1842 [handwritten] M. Alvarenga det. [printed] 1984 [handwritten]”; MNRJ • 1 ♀ (dissected; Fig. 33G); “ Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ SERRA do NAVIO, Terr. Amapá BRASIL, IX–1957, K. Lenko leg. [printed] \ Mycotretus nugator Lac, 1842 [handwritten] M. Alvarenga det. [printed] 1984 [handwritten]”; MNRJ .

Distribution

French Guiana, Southeast and North Brazil.

Remarks

The primary types of M. dorsofasciatus Lacordaire, 1842 and M. nugator Lacordaire, 1842 were not found. However, based on their original descriptions and examination of identified specimens from historical collections, we noted that M. dorsofasciatus and M. nugator differ mainly in the width of the elytral bands, which are wide on the former and narrow on the latter. The male genitalia of both species have the same structural pattern.