Mycotretus basalis 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

15. Mycotretus basalis Crotch, 1876

Mycotretus basalis Crotch, 1876: 438 . Type locality: “Ega” [= Tefé, in the state of Amazonas, North Brazil].

Mycotretus basalis – Crotch 1876: 438. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 465. — Kuhnt 1909: 76; 1911: 52. — Alvarenga 1994: 21. — Skelley 1998b: 15.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated ( Fig. 4C )

BRAZIL • “TYPE [blue label, printed] \ TYPE [printed], basalis Ega Bates [handwritten] \ LECTOTYPE [printed], Mycotretus basalis Crotch, 1876 [red label, handwritten]”; UMZC.

Remarks

New junior synonym of M. egae Crotch, 1876 ( Fig. 6C , 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. 6. Crotch primary types (dorsal, labels) cont. A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus deyrollei Crotch, 1876. B–B’. Lectotype of M. dimidiatus Crotch, 1876 [= M. seminiger Harold, 1876]. C–C’. Lectotype of M. egae Crotch, 1876. D–D’. Lectotype of M. episcaphoides Crotch, 1876. E–E’. Lectotype of M. fulviceps Crotch, 1876. F–F’. Lectotype of M. fulvilabris Crotch, 1876. Scale bars = 1 mm.