Mycotretus silaceus 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 : 159

207. Mycotretus silaceus Lacordaire, 1842

Mycotretus silaceus Lacordaire, 1842: 187 ( Fig. 37A ). Type locality: “ Brésil ”.

Mycotretus silaceus Gorham 1888: 60 [junior synonym]. — Alvarenga 1994: 36. — Skelley 1998b: 17.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated ( Fig. 37A )

BRAZIL • “TYPE. [printed] silaceus Ch [handwritten] \ TYPE [printed, blue label] \ LECTOTYPE [printed] Mycotretus silaceus Lacordaire, 1842 [red label, handwritten]”; UMCZ.

Remarks

Junior synonym of M. sobrinus ( Guérin-Méneville, 1841) ( Fig. 22E , see above).

Figures

Fig. 37. Lacordaire primary types (dorsal, labels) cont. A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus silaceus (Lacordaire, 1842).B–B’. Lectotype of M. singularis Lacordaire, 1842. C–C’. Holotype ofM. terminalis Lacordaire, 1842. D–D’. Lectotype of M. tigratus Lacordaire, 1842. E–E’. Lectotype of M. trabeatus Lacordaire, 1842. F–F’. Lectotype of M. xanthosomus Lacordaire, 1842. Scale bars = 1 mm.

Fig. 22. A–C, D–F. Primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Holotype of Mycotretus trifasciatus Guérin, 1956. B–B’. Lectotype of Erotylus cinctellus Guérin-Méneville, 1841 [= M. cinctellus; synonym of Mycomystes melanophthalmus (Duponchel, 1825)]. C–C’. Lectotype of M. fallax Guérin-Méneville, 1841. D–D’. Specimen of M. sedecimguttatus (Guérin-Méneville, 1844) from the UMZC collection. E–E’. Lectotype of Erotylus (Brachymerus) sobrinus Guérin-Méneville, 1841 [currently M. sobrinus (Guérin-Meneville)]. F–F’. Lectotype of M. dichrous Kirsch, 1876. Scale bars: A = 0.5 mm; B–F = 1 mm.