Mycotretus lopesi Alvarenga, 1989

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 : 17

3. Mycotretus lopesi Alvarenga, 1989

Mycotretus lopesi Alvarenga, 1989: 35 . Type locality: “ BRASIL, Pará: Jacareacanga”.

Mycotretus lopesi – Alvarenga 1994: 28.

Primary type

Holotype ( Fig. 2C )

BRAZIL • ♀ (dissected); “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ HOLOTIPO [red label, printed] \ Jacareacanga, Pará, Brasil, XII–1968, M. Alvarenga [printed] \ Mycotretus lopesi M. Alvarenga , 19 [handwritten]”; MNRJ.

Remarks

New junior synonym of M. reticulatus Crotch, 1876 ( Fig. 10C , see below).

Figures

Fig. 2. Alvarenga holotypes (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Mycotretus bistrioculatus Alvarenga, 1983. B–B’. M. fragosoi Alvarenga, 1983. C–C’. M. lopesi Alvarenga, 1989. D–D’. M. luizi Alvarenga, 1983. E–E’. M. octoculatus Alvarenga, 1983. F–F’. M. quadrioculatus Alvarenga, 1983. Scale bars: A–B, D–F = 0.5 mm; C = 1 mm.

Fig. 10. Crotch primary types (dorsal, labels) cont.A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus quatuordecimguttatus conjunctus Crotch, 1876.B–B’. Lectotype ofM.rastratus Crotch, 1876. C–C’. Lectotype ofM. reticulatus Crotch, 1876. D–D’. Lectotype of M. sallaei Crotch, 1876. E–E’. Lectotype of M. sanguinosus Crotch, 1876 [synonym of Mycomystes coccineus (Lacordaire, 1842)]. F–F’. Lectotype of M. separandus Crotch, 1876. Scale bars = 1 mm.