Mycotretus chontalesi Crotch, 1873

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 : 28-29

19. Mycotretus chontalesi Crotch, 1873

Mycotretus chontalesi Crotch, 1873b: 145 . Type locality: “Santo Domingo, Chontales, Nicaragua ” [Department of Chontales, Nicaragua].

Mycotretus chontalesi – Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3692. — Gorham 1888: 70. — Kuhnt 1909: 72; 1911: 48. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 22.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated ( Fig. 5A )

NICARAGUA • “Type [disc-shaped label, red/orange border, printed] \ Mycotretus chontalesi , Type. Crotch [handwritten] \ CHONTALES, E.M. Janson [printed] \ TYPE [printed], chontalesi [handwritten] \ LECTOTYPE [printed], Mycotretus chontalesi Crotch, 1873 [red label, handwritten]”; BMNH.

Remarks

New junior synonym of M. lepidus Lacordaire, 1842 ( Fig. 31F , see below).

Figures

Fig. 5. Crotch primary types (dorsal, labels) cont. A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus chontalesi Crotch, 1873. B–B’. Lectotype of M. cinctiger Crotch, 1876. C–C’. Lectotype of M. corallipennis Crotch, 1876 [synonym of Mycomystes apicalis (Lacordaire, 1842)]. D–D’. Lectotype of M. cordiger Crotch, 1876. E–E’. Lectotype of M. cruciger Crotch, 1876. F–F’. Lectotype of M. decorus Crotch, 1876. Scale bars = 1 mm.

Fig. 31. Lacordaire specimens cont. A–D, F. Primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus hepaticusLacordaire, 1842. B–B’. Holotype of M. hilaris Lacordaire, 1842. C–C’. Lectotype of M. intermedius Lacordaire, 1842. D–D’. Lectotype of M. jocosus Lacordaire, 1842. E–E’. Specimen of M. lacertosus Lacordaire, 1842 from the Alvarenga collection (MNRJ, Brazil). F–F’. Lectotype of M. lepidus Lacordaire, 1842. Scale bars: A–D, F = 1 mm; E = 0.5 mm.