Mycotretus mycetophagoides erythrocerus 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 : 41-42

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36. Mycotretus mycetophagoides erythrocerus Crotch, 1876

Mycotretus mycetophagoides erythrocerus Crotch, 1876: 457 [as a variety]. Type locality: “Tapagos” [= Tapajós, in the state of Pará, North Brazil].

Mycotretus mycetophagoides erythrocerus – Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3694. — Kuhnt 1909: 71; 1911: 51. — Blackwelder 1945: 467. — Alvarenga 1994: 30. — Skelley 1998b: 18.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated ( Fig. 8A View Fig )

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

Other specimens examined

BRAZIL • 1 ♂ (dissected); “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ Estirão do Equador, Amazonas, Brasil X. 1979, M. Alvarenga [printed] \ M [printed] \ Mycotretus mycetophagoides v. erythrocerus CR, 1876 [handwritten] M. Alvarenga det. [printed] 1989 [handwritten]”; MNRJ .

Distribution

North Brazil.

Remarks

We had no specimen of M. mycetophagoides erythrocerus for comparison with M. mycetophagoides mycetophagoides . The former may be an infraspecific variation of the latter, but we prefer not to synonymize it at this moment.

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

Blackwelder R. E. 1945. Checklist of the coleopterous insects of Mexico, Central America, the West Indies and South America. Part 3. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 185 (3): 343 - 550. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 03629236.185.3

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

Gemminger M. & Harold E. 1876. Familia LXX. Erotylidae. In: Gemminger M. & Harold E. (eds) Catalogus Coleopterorum hucusque descriptorum synonymicus et systematicus. Vol. 10. Gummi, Monachii [Munich]. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 9089

Kuhnt P. 1909. Coleoptera, fam. Erotylidae, subfam. Erotylinae. In: Wytsman P. A. G. (ed.) Genera Insectorum 88. Available from https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 43211062 [accessed 14 Feb. 2023].

Kuhnt P. 1911. Erotylidae. In: Junk W. & Schenkling S. (eds) Coleopterorum Catalogus Pars 34. W. Junk, Berlin. Available from https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 59206376 [accessed 14 Apr. 2023].

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

Figures

Fig. 8. Crotch primary types (dorsal, labels) cont. A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus mycetophagoides erythrocerus Crotch, 1876. B–B’. Lectotype of M. mycetophiloides Crotch, 1876;. C–C’. Lectotype of M. mycetophiloides careus Crotch, 1876. D–D’. Lectotype of M. nigrotinctus Crotch, 1876. E–E’. Lectotype of M. nitescens Crotch, 1876. F–F’. Lectotype of M. opalescens Crotch, 1876. Scale bars = 1 mm.