Mycotretus mycetophagoides mycetophagoides 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 : 41

35. Mycotretus mycetophagoides mycetophagoides Crotch, 1876

Mycotretus mycetophagoides Crotch, 1876: 457 . Type locality: “Para” [State of Pará, Brazil].

Mycotretus mycetophagoides – Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3694. — Kuhnt 1909: 71; 1911: 51. — Blackwelder 1945: 467. — Alvarenga 1994: 30. — Skelley 1998b: 17.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated ( Fig. 7F )

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

Distribution

North Brazil ( Alvarenga 1994).

Remarks

Resembles M. pulchellus Lacordaire ( Fig. 34F ), but differs in having an entire yellow spot at the basal third of elytra, rather than a divided yellow spot. We have no specimen of M. mycetophagoides at hand, but comparison of their descriptions has shown they may be conspecific.

Figures

Fig. 7. Crotch primary types (dorsal, labels) cont. A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus guatemalae Crotch, 1876. B–B’. Lectotype of M. illustris Crotch, 1876. C–C’. Lectotype of M. laeviventris Crotch, 1876. D–D’. Lectotype of M. lissomoides Crotch, 1876. E–E’. Lectotype of M. mutabilis Crotch, 1876. F–F’. Lectotype of M. mycetophagoides 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.