Mycotretus pulchellus 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 : 150-151

195. Mycotretus pulchellus Lacordaire, 1842

Mycotretus pulchellus Lacordaire, 1842: 177 . Type locality: “Rio-Janeiro” [= Rio de Janeiro, state? locality?, Southeast Brazil].

Mycotretus pulchellus – Crotch 1876: 446. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3694. — Kuhnt 1909: 71; 1911: 52. — Blackwelder 1945: 467. — Alvarenga 1994: 33.

Primary type

Holotype ( Fig. 34F )

BRAZIL • “ D. Lacordaire [handwritten] \ Holotype Mycotretus pulchellus Lacordaire, 1842 [red label, handwritten]”; MRSN.

Other specimens examined

BRAZIL • 1 spec.; “Ex-Musaeo Mniszech [printed] \ Type [handwritten] \ Pulchellus Lac [handwritten] \ Brésil [handwritten]”; MNHN • 1 ♀ (dissected); “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ CORCOVADO , Guanabara BRASIL [printed] X. 1970 [handwritten], Alvarenga & Seabra [printed] \ Mycotretus pulchellus Lac. 1842 [handwritten] M. Alvarenga det. [printed] 1984 [handwritten]”; MNRJ .

Distribution

Southeast Brazil.

Remarks

The examined specimen (MNHN) was mistakenly labelled as “ lectotype ”, but the specimen from MRSN ( Fig. 34F ) is the true holotype (see the case of the lectotypes of M. palmiphilus Lacordaire Fig. 34A and M . polyophthalmus Lacordaire Fig. 34D above).

Figures

Fig. 34. Lacordaire primary types (dorsal, labels) cont. A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus palmiphilus Lacordaire, 1842. B–B’. Lectotype of M. partitus Lacordaire, 1842. C–C’. Lectotype of M. pecari Lacordaire, 1842. D–D’. Lectotype of M. polyophthalmus Lacordaire, 1842. E–E’. Lectotype of M. psittacus Lacordaire, 1842. F–F’. Holotype of M. pulchellus Lacordaire, 1842. Scale bars: A–B, E–F = 1 mm; C–D = see Material and methods.