Mycotretus fragosoi Alvarenga, 1983

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 : 17

2. Mycotretus fragosoi Alvarenga, 1983

Mycotretus fragosoi Alvarenga, 1983: 587 . Type locality: “ BRASIL, Amazonas, Estirão do Equador (coordenadas aproximadas, long 71º38’W e lat 4º33’S)”.

Mycotretus fragosoi – Alvarenga 1994: 26.

Primary type

Holotype ( Fig. 2B )

BRAZIL • “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ HOLOTIPO [red label, printed] \ Estirão do Equador , Amazonas, Brasil X.1979, M. Alvarenga [printed] \ M [printed] \ Mycotretus fragosi m. [handwritten] M. Alvarenga det. [printed] 1983 [handwritten]”; MNRJ.

Remarks

New junior synonym of M. signatellus Crotch, 1876 ( Fig. 11B , see below).

Figures

Fig. 2. Alvarenga holotypes (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Mycotretus bistrioculatus Alvarenga, 1983. B–B’. M. fragosoi Alvarenga, 1983. C–C’. M. lopesi Alvarenga, 1989. D–D’. M. luizi Alvarenga, 1983. E–E’. M. octoculatus Alvarenga, 1983. F–F’. M. quadrioculatus Alvarenga, 1983. Scale bars: A–B, D–F = 0.5 mm; C = 1 mm.

Fig. 11. Crotch primary types (dorsal, labels) cont. A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus sericeonitens Crotch, 1876. B–B’. Lectotype of M. signatellus Crotch, 1876. C–C’. Lectotype of M. signatellus imperfectus Crotch, 1876. D–D’. Lectotype of M. succinctus Crotch, 1876. E–E’. Lectotype of M. tricolor Crotch, 1876. Scale bars = 1 mm.