Mycotretus pusillus 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 : 151-152

196. Mycotretus pusillus Lacordaire, 1842

Mycotretus pusillus Lacordaire, 1842: 188 . Type locality: “Cayenne” [ French Guiana].

Mycotretus pusillus – Crotch 1876: 456. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3694. — Kuhnt 1909: 72; 1911: 52. — Blackwelder 1945: 467. — Alvarenga 1994: 33. — Skelley 1998b: 17.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated ( Fig. 35B )

FRENCH GUIANA • “Cayen [handwritten] \ TYPE. [printed] pusillus R [handwritten] \ TYPE [blue label, printed] \ LECTOTYPE [printed] Mycotretus pusillus Lacordaire, 1842 [red label, handwritten]”; UMZC.

Other specimens examined

BRAZIL • 1 ♂ (dissected); “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ Jacareacanga, Pará Brasil, XII–1968, M.Alvarenga [printed] \ Malaise [handwritten] \ 1622 [printed] \ Mycotretus 184 [handwritten] \ pusillus Lac., 1842 [handwritten]”; MNRJ .

Distribution

French Guiana, North Brazil.

Remarks

Mycotretus pusillus resembles M. pygmaeus Lacordaire ( Fig. 35C ) in body shape, coloration and morphology of male genitalia, but differs from the latter in the more elongated penile flagellum.

Figures

Fig. 35. Lacordaire primary types (dorsal, labels) cont. A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus pulicarius Lacordaire, 1842 [synonym of Mycomystes apicalis (Lacordaire, 1842)]. B–B’. Lectotype of M. pusillus Lacordaire, 1842. C–C’. Lectotype of M. pygmaeus Lacordaire, 1842. D–D’. Lectotype of M. quadrinus Lacordaire, 1842. E–E’. Lectotype of M. quatuordecimguttatus Lacordaire, 1842. F–F’. Lectotype of M. rhodosomus Lacordaire, 1842. Scale bars = 1 mm.