Mycotretus puncticeps Kirsch, 1865

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 : 106-107

128. Mycotretus puncticeps Kirsch, 1865

Mycotretus puncticeps Kirsch, 1865: 97 . Type locality: “ Bogotà ” [= Bogotá, Colombia].

Mycotretus puncticeps – Crotch 1876: 454. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3694. — Kuhnt 1909: 76; 1911: 52. — Deelder 1942: 89. — Blackwelder 1945: 467. — Alvarenga 1994: 33.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated ( Fig. 23C )

COLOMBIA • “ Bogota, Coll. Kirsch. [printed] \ Typus [red label, printed] \ SYNTYPUS [red label, printed] \ Staatl. Museum für Tierkunde Dresden [printed]”; SNSD.

Other specimens examined

ECUADOR • 1 ♀ (dissected); “Coleção M.Alvarenga [printed] \ Pichilinge , Quevedo, Los Rios, Ecuador, II. 1977, A. Martinez [handwritten] \ Mycotretus puncticeps Kirsch, 1865 [handwritten] M. Alvarenga det. [printed] 1984 [handwritten]”; MNRJ .

Distribution

Colombia, Ecuador.

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.