Mycotretus nubifer Casey, 1916

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 : 23

11. Mycotretus nubifer Casey, 1916

Mycotretus nubifer Casey, 1916: 158 . Type locality: “ Guatemala (Quitché)” [= Department of Quiché, Guatemala].

Mycotretus nubifer – Blackwelder 1945: 467. — Alvarenga 1994: 31.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated ( Fig. 3E ).

GUATEMALA • “ Joyabaj, Quitché , Guatemala [handwritten] \ nubifer [handwritten], Csy. [name?, handwritten] \ CASEY, bequest, 1925 [printed] \ TYPE USNM [red label, printed], 48793 [handwritten]”; NMNH.

Remarks

New junior synonym of M. scitulus Lacordaire, 1842 ( Fig. 36E , see below).

Figures

Fig. 3. Primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Holotype of Mycotretus tucuriensis Alvarenga, 1983. B–B’. Lectotype of M. centralis Arrow, 1909. C–C’. Lectotype of M. distinguendus Arrow, 1909. D–D’. Holotype of M. nigromanicatus Boyle, 1954. E–E’. Lectotype of M. nubifer Casey, 1916. F–F’. Lectotype of M. lesueuri (Chevrolat, 1835). Scale bars = 1 mm.

Fig. 36. Lacordaire specimens cont. C–F. Primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Specimen of Mycotretus rufilabris (Lacordaire, 1842) from the Alvarenga collection (MNRJ, Brazil). B–B’. Specimen of M. sannio Lacordaire, 1842 from the Crotch collection (UMZC, UK). C–C’. Lectotype of M. savignyi Lacordaire, 1842. D–D’. Lectotype of M. scalaris Lacordaire, 1842. E–E’. Lectotype of M. scitulus Lacordaire, 1842. F–F’. Lectotype of M. sexoculatus sexoculatus Lacordaire, 1842. Scale bars: A = 0.5 mm; B–F = 1 mm.