Mycotretus aestuans 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 : 118

146. Mycotretus aestuans Lacordaire, 1842

Mycotretus aestuans Lacordaire, 1842: 170 . Type locality: “ Brésil ”.

Mycotretus aestuans – Crotch 1876: 441. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3691. — Kuhnt 1909: 76; 1911: 48. — Blackwelder 1945: 465. — Alvarenga 1994: 20. — Skelley 1998b: 15.

Type specimen

Not located.

Distribution

Brazil.

Remarks

The specimen shown in Fig. 26C was identified by Moacyr Alvarenga and fits well the original description of Lacordaire (1842). Probably, M. aestuans may be a synonym of M. hilaris ( Fig. 31B , see below). However, we have not examined the type of M. aestuans and it seems be a poorly represented species in collections (few specimens for comparison), we prefer not to synonymize them here.

Figures

Fig. 26. A–B, D–F. Primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus virgatus Kuhnt, 1910 [= Iphiclus virgatus (Kuhnt), comb. nov.]. B–B’. Holotype of M. ziczac ziczac Kuhnt, 1910. C–C’. Specimen of M. aestuans Lacordaire, 1842 from the Alvarenga collection (MNRJ, Brazil). D–D’. Lectotype of M. ambulator Lacordaire, 1842. E–E’. Lectotype of M. apicalis Lacordaire, 1842 [current combinationMycomystes apicalis (Lacordaire)]. F–F’. Lectotype of M. argus Lacordaire, 1842. Scale bars: A = see Material and methods; B–F = 1 mm.

Fig. 31. Lacordaire specimens cont. A–D, F. Primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus hepaticusLacordaire, 1842. B–B’. Holotype of M. hilaris Lacordaire, 1842. C–C’. Lectotype of M. intermedius Lacordaire, 1842. D–D’. Lectotype of M. jocosus Lacordaire, 1842. E–E’. Specimen of M. lacertosus Lacordaire, 1842 from the Alvarenga collection (MNRJ, Brazil). F–F’. Lectotype of M. lepidus Lacordaire, 1842. Scale bars: A–D, F = 1 mm; E = 0.5 mm.