Mycotretus argus Lacordaire, 1842

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 : 120

149. Mycotretus argus Lacordaire, 1842

Mycotretus argus Lacordaire, 1842: 161 . Type locality: “Cayenne” [ French Guiana].

Mycotretus argus – Crotch 1876: 439. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3692. — Kuhnt 1909: 71; 1911: 48. — Blackwelder 1945: 465. — Alvarenga 1994: 21.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated ( Fig. 26F )

FRENCH GUIANA • “ D. Lacordaire. [printed]”; MRSN.

Other specimen examined

BRAZIL • 1 ♀ (dissected); “Vilhena [printed] 20 [handwritten]-2-1961 [printed] \ Brasil, R O, J. & B. Bechyné [printed] \ MG [printed] \ argus [handwritten]”; MNRJ • 1 ♂ (dissected); “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ Jacareacanga, Pará, Brasil [printed] V. 1969 [handwritten] F.R. Barbosa [printed] \ DZUP 136039 [printed]”; DZUP .

Distribution

French Guiana, North Brazil.

Figures

Fig. 26. A–B, D–F. Primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus virgatus Kuhnt, 1910 [= Iphiclus virgatus (Kuhnt), comb. nov.]. B–B’. Holotype of M. ziczac ziczac Kuhnt, 1910. C–C’. Specimen of M. aestuans Lacordaire, 1842 from the Alvarenga collection (MNRJ, Brazil). D–D’. Lectotype of M. ambulator Lacordaire, 1842. E–E’. Lectotype of M. apicalis Lacordaire, 1842 [current combinationMycomystes apicalis (Lacordaire)]. F–F’. Lectotype of M. argus Lacordaire, 1842. Scale bars: A = see Material and methods; B–F = 1 mm.