Mycotretus nigrotinctus 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 : 42-44

39. Mycotretus nigrotinctus Crotch, 1876

Mycotretus nigrotinctus Crotch, 1876: 454 . Type locality: “Teapa” [state of Tabasco, Southeast Mexico].

Mycotretus nigrotinctus – Gorham 1888: 52 [synonym of M. pallidior ]. — Alvarenga 1994: 32. — Skelley 1998b: 17.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated ( Fig. 8D )

MEXICO • “TYPE [blue label, printed] \ TYPE. [printed], nigrotinctus Teapa Chev [handwritten] \ = Ischyrus pallidior Cr H (?). S. G.10. 87 [handwritten] \ LECTOTYPE [printed], Mycotretus nigrotinctus Crotch, 1876 [red label, handwritten]”; UMZC.

Remarks

Junior synonym of M. pallidior ( Crotch, 1876) ( Fig. 9A , see below).

Figures

Fig. 8. Crotch primary types (dorsal, labels) cont. A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus mycetophagoides erythrocerus Crotch, 1876. B–B’. Lectotype of M. mycetophiloides Crotch, 1876;. C–C’. Lectotype of M. mycetophiloides careus Crotch, 1876. D–D’. Lectotype of M. nigrotinctus Crotch, 1876. E–E’. Lectotype of M. nitescens Crotch, 1876. F–F’. Lectotype of M. opalescens Crotch, 1876. Scale bars = 1 mm.

Fig. 9. Crotch primary types (dorsal, labels) cont. A–A’. Lectotype of Ischyrus pallidior Crotch, 1876 [currently Mycotretus pallidior (Crotch)]. B–B’. Lectotype of Mycotretus parallelus Crotch, 1876. C–C’. Lectotype of M. pebasensis Crotch, 1876. D–D’. Lectotype of M. peruae Crotch, 1876. E–E’. Lectotype of M. psylloboroides Crotch, 1876. F–F’. Lectotype of M. quadripunctatus Crotch, 1876. Scale bars = 1 mm.