Mycotretus pulicarius 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 : 151

Mycotretus pulicarius Lacordaire, 1842

Mycotretus pulicarius Lacordaire, 1842: 182 [description]. Type locality: “ Colombie ”.

Mycotretus pulicarius – Crotch 1876: 448 [synonym of M. gemmula ]; 1876: 448 [synonym of Mycomystes gemmula ]. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3693. — Mader 1942: 173. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 26. — Skelley 1998b: 16. — Pecci-Maddalena et al. 2021b: 3078 [synonym of Mycomystes apicalis ].

Primary type

Lectotype ( Fig. 35A )

COLOMBIA • “Ex-Musaeo Mniszech [printed] \ Type [handwritten] \ Pulicarius Lac [handwritten] \ Colombie [handwritten] \ LECTOTYPE [printed] Mycotretus pulicarius Lacordaire, 1842 [red label, handwritten]”; MNHN.

Remarks

Synonym of Mycomystes apicalis ( Lacordaire, 1842) ( Fig. 26E , see above).

Figures

Fig. 35. Lacordaire primary types (dorsal, labels) cont. A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus pulicarius Lacordaire, 1842 [synonym of Mycomystes apicalis (Lacordaire, 1842)]. B–B’. Lectotype of M. pusillus Lacordaire, 1842. C–C’. Lectotype of M. pygmaeus Lacordaire, 1842. D–D’. Lectotype of M. quadrinus Lacordaire, 1842. E–E’. Lectotype of M. quatuordecimguttatus Lacordaire, 1842. F–F’. Lectotype of M. rhodosomus Lacordaire, 1842. Scale bars = 1 mm.

Fig. 26. A–B, D–F. Primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus virgatus Kuhnt, 1910 [= Iphiclus virgatus (Kuhnt), comb. nov.]. B–B’. Holotype of M. ziczac ziczac Kuhnt, 1910. C–C’. Specimen of M. aestuans Lacordaire, 1842 from the Alvarenga collection (MNRJ, Brazil). D–D’. Lectotype of M. ambulator Lacordaire, 1842. E–E’. Lectotype of M. apicalis Lacordaire, 1842 [current combinationMycomystes apicalis (Lacordaire)]. F–F’. Lectotype of M. argus Lacordaire, 1842. Scale bars: A = see Material and methods; B–F = 1 mm.