Mycotretus bisseptemguttatus 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 : 27

16. Mycotretus bisseptemguttatus Crotch, 1876

Mycotretus bisseptemguttatus Crotch, 1876: 441 . Type locality: “Cayenne” [Cayenne, French Guiana].

Mycotretus bisseptemguttatus – Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3692. — Kuhnt 1909: 71; 1911: 48. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 21. — Skelley 1998b: 15.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated ( Fig. 4D )

FRENCH GUIANA • “TYPE [blue label, printed] \ Cayenne [handwritten] \ L [printed] \ TYPE [printed], bis 7 guttata Cay. [handwritten] \ LECTOTYPE [printed], Mycotretus bisseptemguttatus Crotch, 1876 [red label, handwritten]”; UMZC.

Remarks

New junior synonym of M. quattuordecimguttatus Lacordaire, 1842 ( Fig. 35E , see below).

Figures

Fig. 4. Crotch primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus adalioides Crotch, 1876. B–B’. Lectotype of M. balteatus Crotch, 1876. C–C’. Lectotype of M. basalis Crotch, 1876. D–D’. Lectotype of M. bisseptemguttatus Crotch, 1876. E–E’. Lectotype of M. brasilianus Crotch, 1876. F–F’. Lectotype of M. chilensis Crotch, 1876. Scale bars = 1 mm.

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.