Mycotretus nigrivittis 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 : 143-144

186. Mycotretus nigrivittis Lacordaire, 1842

Mycotretus nigrivittis Lacordaire, 1842: 157 . Type locality: “Cayenne” [ French Guiana].

Mycotretus nigrivittis – Crotch 1876: 437. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3694. — Kuhnt 1909: 75; 1911: 51. — Blackwelder 1945: 467. — Alvarenga 1994: 30.

Type specimen

Not located.

Other specimens examined

FRENCH GUIANA • 1 spec. ( Fig. 33D ); “Maués. Amazonas. [printed] 4.940 [handwritten] \ Coll. J. Guerin. S. Paulo. Brasil. [printed] 6220 [handwritten] \ Mycotretus nigrivittis Lac. [handwritten] J. Guerin. det. 194[printed]9[handwritten]”; MZSP .

Distribution

French Guiana, (North Brazil?).

Remarks

The specimen examined by us was tentatively identified as M. nigrivittis . Therefore, the northern Brazilian record is doubtful.

Figures

Fig. 33. Lacordaire specimens cont. A–B, E–F. Primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus melanostictus Lacordaire, 1842. B–B’. Lectotype of M. miniatus Lacordaire, 1842. C–C’. Specimen of M. misellus Lacordaire, 1842 from the Crotch collection (UMZC, UK). D–D’. Specimen of M. nigrivittis Lacordaire, 1842 from MZSP (Brazil). E–E’. Lectotype of M. nigrocinctus Lacordaire, 1842. F–F’. Lectotype of M. nigroterminatus Lacordaire, 1842 [synonym of Mycomystes apicalis (Lacordaire, 1842)]. G–G’. Specimen of M. nugator Lacordaire, 1842 from the Alvarenga collection (MNRJ, Brazil). Scale bars: A–F = 1 mm; G = 0.5 mm.