Mycotretus puncticollis ( 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 : 70

72. Mycotretus puncticollis ( Duponchel, 1825)

Erotylus puncticollis Duponchel, 1825: 54 . Type locality: “ Brésil ”.

Mycotretus puncticollis – Lacordaire 1842: 142 [junior synonym of M. ornatus ]. — Alvarenga 1994: 30.

Type specimen

Not located.

Remarks

New junior synonym of M. ornatus ( Duponchel, 1825) ( Fig. 14A , see above). Lacordaire (1842) synonymized M. puncticollis under M. nigropunctatus (one of the new junior synonyms of M. ornatus proposed here, see above). Based on the description and redescription of M. puncticollis ( Duponchel 1825: 54 and Lacordaire 1842: 142), we’ve noted that this species is just another variation of M. ornatus .

Figures

Fig. 14. A–C, E–F. Primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Lectotype of Erotylus ornatus Duponchel [currently Mycotretus ornatus (Duponchel)]. B–B’. Lectotype of E. maculosus Duponchel, 1825 [currently M. maculosus (Duponchel)]. C–C’. Lectotype of E. sanguineus Duponchel, 1825 [currently M. sanguineus (Duponchel)]. D–D’. Topotype of M. unicolor Fauvel, 1860 from RBINS (Belgium) [synonym of Mycomystes coccineus (Lacordaire, 1842)]. E–E’. Lectotype of M. aegrotus Gorham, 1888. F–F’. Lectotype of M. alternans Gorham, 1888. Scale bars = 1 mm.