Mycotretus discoidalis 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 : 173

Mycotretus discoidalis Taschenberg, 1870

Mycotretus discoidalis Taschenberg, 1870: 199 ( Fig. 40D ). Type locality: “ Colombia ”.

Mycotretus discoidalis – Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3692. — Kuhnt 1909: 73; 1911: 49. — Mader 1942: 173; 1951: 214. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 24. — McHugh & Chaboo 2015: 278. — Pecci-Maddalena et al. 2021b: 3080 [synonym of Mycomystes melanophthalmus ].

Primary type

Lectotype ( Fig. 40D )

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

Remarks

Synonym of Mycomystes melanophthalmus ( Duponchel, 1825) ( Pecci-Maddalena et al. 2021b; Fig. 13D above).

Figures

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.

Fig. 13. A–D. Duponchel primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Lectotype of Erotylus coronatus Duponchel, 1825 [currently Mycotretus coronatus (Duponchel)]. B–B’. Lectotype of E. decoratus Duponchel, 1825 [currently M. decoratus (Duponchel)]. C–C’. Lectotype of E. duodecimguttatus Duponchel, 1825 [currentlyM. duodecimguttatus (Duponchel)].D–D’. Lectotype ofE. melanophthalmus Duponchel, 1825 [currently Mycomystes melanophthalmus (Duponchel)]. E–E’. Specimen of M. minutus (Duponchel, 1825) from the DZUP collection (Brazil).F–F’. Specimen of M. nigropunctatus (Duponchel, 1825) from the Brême collection (MRSN). Scale bars: A–D = 1 mm; E = 0.5 mm; F = see Material and methods.