Mycotretus dytiscoides 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

161. Mycotretus dytiscoides Lacordaire, 1842

Mycotretus dytiscoides Lacordaire, 1842: 184 . Type locality: “ Mexique ”.

Mycotretus dytiscoides – Crotch 1876: 449. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3692. — Gorham 1888: 65. — Kuhnt 1909: 73; 1911: 49. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 25. — Skelley 1998b: 16.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated ( Fig. 29A )

MEXICO • “TYPE [blue label, printed] \ TYPE. [printed] dytiscoides Ch [handwritten] \ LECTOTYPE [printed] Mycotretus dytiscoides Lacordaire, 1842 [red label, handwritten]”; UMZC.

Distribution

Unknown locality in Mexico.

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.