Mycotretus leprosus 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 : 139

177. Mycotretus leprosus Lacordaire, 1842

Mycotretus leprosus Lacordaire, 1842: 160 . Type locality: “Cayenne” [ French Guiana].

Mycotretus leprosus – Crotch 1876: 439. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3693. — Kuhnt 1909: 72; 1911: 50. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 28. — Skelley 1998b: 15.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated ( Fig. 32A )

FRENCH GUIANA • “ Cayenne [handwritten] \ Leprosus Lac [handwritten] \ Ex-Musaeo Mniszech [printed] \ Type [handwritten] \ LECTOTYPE [printed] Mycotretus leprosus Lacordaire, 1842 [red label, handwritten]”; MNHN.

Other specimens examined

BRAZIL • 1 ♂ (dissected) ; “ BRASIL, OBIDOS ( Traíra ), Estº Pará, DIRINGS [front] JUN 1961 [back] [printed]”; MZSP .

Distribution

French Guiana, North Brazil.

Figures

Fig. 32. Lacordaire specimens cont. A, C–F. Primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus leprosus Lacordaire, 1842. B–B’. Specimen of M. limbatus (Lacordaire, 1842) from the Crotch collection (UMZC, UK). C–C’. Lectotype of M. luteipes Lacordaire, 1842. D–D’. Lectotype of M. magus Lacordaire, 1842. E–E’. Holotype of M. marginicollis Lacordaire, 1842. F–F’. Lectotype of M. melanopterus Lacordaire, 1842. Scale bars = 1 mm.