Mycotretus separandus 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 : 53

52. Mycotretus separandus Crotch, 1876

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

Mycotretus separandus – Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3695. — Kuhnt 1909: 76; 1911: 53. — Blackwelder 1945: 467. — Alvarenga 1994: 35. — Skelley 1998b: 15.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated ( Fig. 10F )

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

Other specimens examined

BRAZIL • 1 ♀ (dissected); “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ Estirão do Equador, Amazonas, Brasil X. 1979, M. Alvarenga [printed] \ Mycotretus separandus Crotch, 1876 [handwritten] M. Alvarenga det. [printed] 1984 [handwritten] \ M [printed]”; MNRJ .

Distribution

North Brazil.

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.