Mycotretus quattuordecimguttatus conjunctus 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 : 49-50

48. Mycotretus quattuordecimguttatus conjunctus Crotch, 1876

Mycotretus quattuordecimguttatus conjunctus Crotch, 1876: 440 [as a variety]. Type locality: unknown.

Mycotretus quattuordecimguttatus conjunctus – Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3694. — Kuhnt 1909: 71; 1911: 53. — Blackwelder 1945: 467. — Alvarenga 1994: 34. — Skelley 1998b: 15.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated ( Fig. 10A )

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

Remarks

New junior synonym of M. pecari Lacordaire, 1842 ( Fig. 34C , see below).

Figures

Fig. 10. Crotch primary types (dorsal, labels) cont.A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus quatuordecimguttatus conjunctus Crotch, 1876.B–B’. Lectotype ofM.rastratus Crotch, 1876. C–C’. Lectotype ofM. reticulatus Crotch, 1876. D–D’. Lectotype of M. sallaei Crotch, 1876. E–E’. Lectotype of M. sanguinosus Crotch, 1876 [synonym of Mycomystes coccineus (Lacordaire, 1842)]. F–F’. Lectotype of M. separandus Crotch, 1876. Scale bars = 1 mm.

Fig. 34. Lacordaire primary types (dorsal, labels) cont. A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus palmiphilus Lacordaire, 1842. B–B’. Lectotype of M. partitus Lacordaire, 1842. C–C’. Lectotype of M. pecari Lacordaire, 1842. D–D’. Lectotype of M. polyophthalmus Lacordaire, 1842. E–E’. Lectotype of M. psittacus Lacordaire, 1842. F–F’. Holotype of M. pulchellus Lacordaire, 1842. Scale bars: A–B, E–F = 1 mm; C–D = see Material and methods.