Mycotretus nigromaculatus ( Kuhnt, 1909 )

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 : 114

139. Mycotretus nigromaculatus ( Kuhnt, 1909)

Brachysphaenus ( Iphiclus) nigromaculatus Kuhnt, 1909: 27 . Type locality: “ Mexico ”.

Brachysphaenus ( Iphiclus) nigromaculatus – Kuhnt 1911: 17. — Blackwelder 1945: 459.

Mycotretus nigromaculatus – Delkeskamp 1939: 27. — Alvarenga 1994: 30.

Primary type

Holotype ( Fig. 25B )

MEXICO • “21583 [printed] \ Mexico. (…)? [handwritten]\ Iphiclus nigromaculatus Kuhnt [handwritten] \ 1. [handwritten] \ Type [red label, printed] \ HOLOTYPE Brachysphaenus (Iphiclus) nigromaculatus Kuhnt, 1909 labelled by I. Pecci-Maddalena 2017 [red label, printed]”; MFN.

Remarks

New junior synonym of M. rhodosomus Lacordaire, 1842 ( Fig. 35F , see below).

Figures

Fig. 25. Kuhnt primary types (dorsal, labels) cont. A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus interstitialis Kuhnt, 1910. B–B’. Holotype of Brachysphaenus (Iphiclus) nigromaculatus Kuhnt, 1909 [currently M. nigromaculatus (Kuhnt)]. C–C’. Holotype of M. quadristriolatus Kuhnt, 1910. D–D’. Lectotype of M. sexlineatus Kuhnt, 1910.E–E’. Holotype ofM. stillatus Kuhnt, 1910.F–F’. Holotype ofM. thoracicus Kuhnt, 1910. Scale bars: B, E–F = 1 mm; A, C–D = see Material and methods.

Fig. 35. Lacordaire primary types (dorsal, labels) cont. A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus pulicarius Lacordaire, 1842 [synonym of Mycomystes apicalis (Lacordaire, 1842)]. B–B’. Lectotype of M. pusillus Lacordaire, 1842. C–C’. Lectotype of M. pygmaeus Lacordaire, 1842. D–D’. Lectotype of M. quadrinus Lacordaire, 1842. E–E’. Lectotype of M. quatuordecimguttatus Lacordaire, 1842. F–F’. Lectotype of M. rhodosomus Lacordaire, 1842. Scale bars = 1 mm.