Mycotretus episcopalis 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 : 128

162. Mycotretus episcopalis Lacordaire, 1842

Mycotretus episcopalis Lacordaire, 1842: 152 . Type locality: “ Brésil ”.

Mycotretus episcopalis – Crotch 1876: 453. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3692. — Kuhnt 1909: 75; 1911: 49. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 25. — Skelley 1998b: 17.

Type specimen

Not located.

Other specimens examined

BRAZIL • 1 ♀ (dissected; Fig. 29B ) “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ FLORESTA da TIJUCA , Guanabara Brasil [printed], I. 1967 [handwritten], C.A. Campos Seabra [printed] \ Mycotretus episcopalis Lac, 1842 [handwritten] M. Alvarenga det. [printed] 1989 [handwritten]”; MNRJ • 1 ♂ (dissected); “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ Brasil M. Gerais, Aguas Vermelhas , XII. 1983, M. Alvarenga [printed] \ M [printed]”; MNRJ .

Distribution

French Guiana, North Brazil.

Figures

Fig. 29. Lacordaire specimens cont. A, C–F. Primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus dytiscoides Lacordaire, 1842. B–B’. Specimen of M. episcopalis Lacordaire, 1842 from the Alvarenga collection (MNRJ, Brazil). C–C’. Lectotype of M. fasciolatus Lacordaire, 1842. D–D’. Lectotype of M. figuratus Lacordaire, 1842. E–E’. Lectotype of M. flavomarginatus Lacordaire, 1842. F–F’. Holotype of M. floriger Lacordaire, 1842. Scale bars: A, C–F = 1 mm; B = 0.5 mm.