Mycotretus bicolor Taschenberg, 1870

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 : 171

226. Mycotretus bicolor Taschenberg, 1870

Mycotretus bicolor Taschenberg, 1870: 198 . Type locality: “ Colombia ”.

Mycotretus monrosi Guérin, 1949b: 589 . Type locality: “Piletas, Salta ” [Department of Salta, Argentina] syn. nov. ( Fig. 21F ).

Mycotretus bicolor – Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3692. — Kuhnt 1909: 73; 1911: 48. — Mader 1942: 172; 1951: 213. — Blackwelder 1945: 465. — Alvarenga 1994: 21. — McHugh & Chaboo 2015: 278.

Mycotretus monrosi – Alvarenga 1994: 29.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated (image not available)

COLOMBIA • “bicolor*, Zeitschr. 1870. Colomb. Wallis [green label, handwritten, box label] \ LECTOTYPE Mycotretus bicolor Taschenberg, 1870 det. I. Pecci-Maddalena 2017 [red label, printed]”; ZNS.

Other specimens examined

BOLIVIA • 1 ♀ (dissected; Fig. 40A ); “ Chapare, Bolivia, iv. 1953, A. Martinez [handwritten] \ Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ Mycotretus bicolor Tasch. 1870 [handwritten] M. Alvarenga det. [printed] 1984 [handwritten]”; MNRJ .

Distribution

Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina.

Remarks

Mycotretus monrosi Guérin is identical to Mycotretus bicolor Taschenberg.

Figures

Fig. 21. Primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Holotype of Mycotretus ternotatus Gorham, 1888. B–B’. Holotype of M. tibialis Gorham, 1888. C–C’. Lectotype of M. vittatus Gorham, 1888. D–D’. Holotype of M. anchoralis Guérin, 1956. E–E’. Holotype of M. bicinctus Guérin, 1949. F–F’. Holotype of M. monrosi Guérin, 1949. Scale bars: A–C, F = 1 mm; D–E = 0.5 mm.

Fig. 40. Taschenberg specimens. B–D, F. Primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Specimen of Mycotretus bicolor Taschenberg, 1870 from Alvarenga collection (MNRJ, Brazil). B–B’. Lectotype of M. coccinelloides Taschenberg, 1870 [synonym of Mycomystes apicalis (Lacordaire, 1842)]. C–C’. Lectotype of M. dimidiatus Taschenberg, 1870. D–D’. Lectotype of M. discoidalis Taschenberg, 1870 [synonym of Mycomystes melanophthalmus (Duponchel, 1825)]. E–E’. Specimen of M. dispar Taschenberg, 1870 from the Alvarenga collection (MNRJ, Brazil).F–F’. Lectotype ofM. multimaculatus Taschenberg, 1870. Scale bars: A = 0.5 mm; E = 1 mm; B–D, F = see Material and methods.