Mycotretus decorus 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 : 32-33

23. Mycotretus decorus Crotch, 1876

Mycotretus decorus Crotch, 1876: 442 . Type locality: “Ega” [= Tefé, in the state of Amazonas, North Brazil].

Mycotretus decorus – Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3692. — Kuhnt 1909: 76; 1911: 49. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 23. — Skelley 1998b: 15.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated ( Fig. 5F )

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

Other specimens examined

BRAZIL • 1 spec.; “Bates [printed] \ yellow square [unwritten] \ PARATYPE [blue label, printed] \ PARALECTOTYPE [printed], Mycotretus decorus Crotch, 1876 [yellow label, handwritten]”; UMZC .

Distribution

Northern Brazil.

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.