Mycotretus opalizans, Pecci-Maddalena & Lopes-Andrade & Skelley, 2023

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 : 164-165

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scientific name	Mycotretus opalizans
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Treatment

218. Mycotretus opalizans Mader, 1942

Mycotretus opalizans Mader, 1942: 175 , 200. Type locality: “ Peru: Chanchamayo”.

Mycotretus opalizans – Mader 1951: 223. — Alvarenga 1994: 31.

Primary type

Holotype ( Fig. 38E)

PERU • “ Holotypus [red label, printed] \ Schenkling det. [printed] \ Coll. Kraatz [printed] \ Peru [handwritten] \ pelliciens [handwritten] \ Keine Rede vom M. pelliciens . Type ist ganz anders. [handwritten, ‘ M. pelliciens not relevant, the type is completely different’] \ Mycotretus opalizans sp. nov. Det. Mader [handwritten]”; SDEI.

Distribution

Peru.

Remarks

Mycotretus opalizans Mader, 1942 is morphologically similar to M. opalescens Crotch ( Fig. 8F) and they may be synonymized in the future. At the moment we do not have any specimen phenotypically similar to M. opalizans , and therefore we prefer not to take any taxonomic acts.

References

Alvarenga M. 1994. Catalogo dos Erotylidae (Coleoptera) Neotropicais. Revista brasileira de Zoologia 11 (1): 1 - 175. https: // doi. org / 10.1590 / S 0101 - 81751994000100001

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.