Mycotretus pelliciens Kirsch, 1876

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 : 106

127. Mycotretus pelliciens Kirsch, 1876

Mycotretus pelliciens Kirsch, 1876: 100 . Type locality: “ Peru ” [based on type label = “Pozuzu” (= locality of Pozuzo), in the department of Pasco, Peru].

Mycotretus pelliciens – Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3694. — Kuhnt 1909: 76; 1911: 52. — Mader 1942: 174; 1951: 219. — Blackwelder 1945: 467. — Alvarenga 1994: 32. — McHugh & Chaboo 2015: 278.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated ( Fig. 23A )

PERU • “ Pozuzu, M. Kirsch [printed] \ Typus [red label, printed] \ Mycotretus pelliciens Kirsch Typus [handwritten] \ HOLOTYPUS [red label, printed] \ Staatl. Museum für Tierkunde Dresden [printed]”; SNSD.

Remarks

New junior synonym of M. opalescens Crotch, 1876 ( Fig. 8F , see above).

Figures

Fig. 23. Primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus pelliciens Kirsch, 1876. B–B’. Lectotype of M. peruvianus (Kirsch, 1876) [present combination Mycomystes peruvianus (Kirsch)]. C–C’. Lectotype of M. puncticeps Kirsch, 1865. D–D’. Lectotype of M. suturalis Kirsch, 1876. E–E’. Lectotype of M. bicoloratus Kuhnt, 1911 [= M. bicolor Kirsch, 1876 (invalid name)]. F–F’. Lectotype of M. derasofasciatus Kuhnt, 1910. Scale bars: A–E = 1 mm; F = see Material and methods.

Fig. 8. Crotch primary types (dorsal, labels) cont. A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus mycetophagoides erythrocerus Crotch, 1876. B–B’. Lectotype of M. mycetophiloides Crotch, 1876;. C–C’. Lectotype of M. mycetophiloides careus Crotch, 1876. D–D’. Lectotype of M. nigrotinctus Crotch, 1876. E–E’. Lectotype of M. nitescens Crotch, 1876. F–F’. Lectotype of M. opalescens Crotch, 1876. Scale bars = 1 mm.