Mycotretus hilaris 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 : 135

171. Mycotretus hilaris Lacordaire, 1842

Mycotretus hilaris Lacordaire, 1842: 171 . Type locality: “ Brésil ”.

Mycotretus hilaris – Crotch 1876: 441. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3693. — Kuhnt 1909: 76; 1911: 50. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 27. — Skelley 1998b: 15.

Primary type

Holotype ( Fig. 31B )

BRAZIL • “TYPE. [printed] hilaris Ch [handwritten] \ TYPE [blue label, printed] \ Holotype Mycotretus hilaris Lacordaire, 1842 [red label, handwritten]”; UMZC.

Other specimens examined

BRAZIL • 1 ♂ (dissected); “Coll. J. Guerin. S. Paulo. Brasil. [printed] 18681 [handwritten] \ Itatiaya. Rio. [printed] 11.936 [handwritten] \ Mycotretus hilaris Lac. [handwritten] J. Guerin det. 19 [printed]54[handwritten]”; MZSP .

Distribution

Southeast Brazil.

Figures

Fig. 31. Lacordaire specimens cont. A–D, F. Primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus hepaticusLacordaire, 1842. B–B’. Holotype of M. hilaris Lacordaire, 1842. C–C’. Lectotype of M. intermedius Lacordaire, 1842. D–D’. Lectotype of M. jocosus Lacordaire, 1842. E–E’. Specimen of M. lacertosus Lacordaire, 1842 from the Alvarenga collection (MNRJ, Brazil). F–F’. Lectotype of M. lepidus Lacordaire, 1842. Scale bars: A–D, F = 1 mm; E = 0.5 mm.