Mycotretus cruciger 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

22. Mycotretus cruciger Crotch, 1876

Mycotretus cruciger Crotch, 1876: 452 . Type locality: Unknown.

Mycotretus cruciger – Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3692. — Kuhnt 1909:74; 1911:49. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 23. — Skelley 1998b: 17.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated ( Fig. 5E )

UNKNOWN COUNTRY • “TYPE [blue label, printed] \ TYPE. [printed], cruciger [?, handwritten] \ LECTOTYPE [printed], Mycotretus cruciger Crotch, 1876 [red label, handwritten]”; UMZC.

Other specimens examined

BRAZIL • 1 ♀ (dissected); “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ Homeotipo [red label, printed] \ Maturaca, AM, alto Rio Cauaburi , 12–17.XII.1962, J. Bechyné col. [printed] \ Comparado com tipo [printed] Mycotretus cruciger Crotch, 1876 [handwritten] M. Alvarenga det. 1971 [printed] \ 1750- A [handwritten]”; MNRJ • 1 ♀ (dissected); “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ Maturacá Rio Negro [printed] 14.12 [handwritten] -196[printed]2[handwritten] \ Brasil, A M, J.&B. Bechyne [printed] \ Mycotretus cruciger Crotch, 1876 [handwritten] M. Alvarenga det. [printed] 1984 [handwritten]”; MNRJ .

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.