Mycotretus melanopterus 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 : 142

182. Mycotretus melanopterus Lacordaire, 1842

Mycotretus melanopterus Lacordaire, 1842: 162 . Type locality: “ Colombie ”.

Mycotretus xanthosomus Lacordaire, 1842: 162 ( Fig. 37F ). Type locality: “ Colombie ”.

Mycotretus melanopterus – Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3693. — Kuhnt 1909: 71; 1911: 51. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 29. — Skelley 1998b: 15.

Mycotretus xanthosomus – Crotch 1876: 439 [synonym of M. melanopterus Lacordaire, 1842 ]. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 29.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated ( Fig. 32F )

COLOMBIA • “TYPE [blue label, printed] \ TYPE. [printed] melanopterus R [handwritten] \ Nova Gr [handwritten] \ LECTOTYPE [printed] Mycotretus melanopterus Lacordaire, 1842 [red label, handwritten]”; UMZC.

Distribution

Unknown locality in Colombia.

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. 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.