Mycomystes melanophthalmus ( Duponchel, 1825 )

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 : 65

Mycomystes melanophthalmus ( Duponchel, 1825)

Erotylus melanophthalmus Duponchel, 1825: 160 [description]. Type locality: “ Brésil ”.

Erotylus (Brachymerus) cinctellus Guérin-Méneville, 1841: 153 [description].

Mycotretus discoidalis Taschenberg, 1870: 199 [description].

Mycotretus melanophthalmus – Lacordaire 1842: 179. — Guérin-Méneville 1855: 610. — Crotch 1876: 448. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3693. — Kuhnt 1909: 72; 1911: 51. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Guérin 1948: 20. — Alvarenga 1994: 29. — Skelley 1998b: 16. — Pecci-Maddalena & Lopes-Andrade 2020: 585. — Pecci-Maddalena et al. 2021a: 955.

Mycotretus cinctellus – Lacordaire 1842: 178. — Crotch 1876: 447. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3692. — Kuhnt 1909: 71; 1911: 48. — Bruch 1914: 384. — Deelder 1942: 88. — Mader 1942: 172; 1951: 212. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Guérin-Méneville 1841: 153–154. — Alvarenga 1994: 22. — Skelley 1998b: 16. — McHugh & Chaboo 2015: 278. — Pecci-Maddalena et al. 2021b: 3090 [junior synonym of Mycomystes melanophthalmus ].

Mycotretus discoidalis – Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3692. — Kuhnt 1909: 73; 1911: 49. — Mader 1942: 173; 1951: 214. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 24. — McHugh & Chaboo 2015: 278. — Pecci-Maddalena et al. 2021b: 3091 [junior synonym of Mycomystes melanophthalmus ].

Mycomystes melanophthalmus – Pecci-Maddalena et al. 2021b: 3090 .

Primary type

Lectotype ( Fig. 13D )

BRAZIL • “LECTOTYPE [printed] Erotylus melanophthalmus Duponchel, 1825 [red label, handwritten] \ Mycotretus melanophthalmus ( Duponchel, 1825) [handwritten] det. I. Pecci-Maddalena 2017 [printed]”; MRSN.

Other specimens examined

See Pecci-Maddalena et al. (2021b).

Distribution

From Central America to Argentina.

Remarks

See Pecci-Maddalena et al. (2021b).

Figures

Fig. 13. A–D. Duponchel primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Lectotype of Erotylus coronatus Duponchel, 1825 [currently Mycotretus coronatus (Duponchel)]. B–B’. Lectotype of E. decoratus Duponchel, 1825 [currently M. decoratus (Duponchel)]. C–C’. Lectotype of E. duodecimguttatus Duponchel, 1825 [currentlyM. duodecimguttatus (Duponchel)].D–D’. Lectotype ofE. melanophthalmus Duponchel, 1825 [currently Mycomystes melanophthalmus (Duponchel)]. E–E’. Specimen of M. minutus (Duponchel, 1825) from the DZUP collection (Brazil).F–F’. Specimen of M. nigropunctatus (Duponchel, 1825) from the Brême collection (MRSN). Scale bars: A–D = 1 mm; E = 0.5 mm; F = see Material and methods.