Mycotretus sericeonitens sericeonitens 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

53. Mycotretus sericeonitens sericeonitens Crotch, 1876

Mycotretus sericeonitens Crotch, 1876: 445 . Type locality: “Ega” [= Tefé, in the state of Amazonas, North Brazil].

Mycotretus sericeonitens – Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3695. — Kuhnt 1909: 76; 1911: 53. — Mader 1942: 175; 1951: 223. — Blackwelder 1945: 467. — Delkeskamp 1957: 99. — Alvarenga 1994: 35. — Skelley 1998b: 16. — McHugh & Chaboo 2015: 278.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated ( Fig. 11A )

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

Other specimen examined

Paralectotype

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

Distribution

Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, North Brazil.

Remarks

Mycotretus sericeonitens resembles M. signatellus ( Fig. 11B ) in body colour and shape, and these species are morphologically similar.

Figures

Fig. 11. Crotch primary types (dorsal, labels) cont. A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus sericeonitens Crotch, 1876. B–B’. Lectotype of M. signatellus Crotch, 1876. C–C’. Lectotype of M. signatellus imperfectus Crotch, 1876. D–D’. Lectotype of M. succinctus Crotch, 1876. E–E’. Lectotype of M. tricolor Crotch, 1876. Scale bars = 1 mm.