Mycotretus hirudo Gorham, 1888

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 : 85

95. Mycotretus hirudo Gorham, 1888

Mycotretus hirudo Gorham, 1888: 59 . Type locality: “ Guatemala, San Gerónimo”.

Mycotretus hirudo – Kuhnt 1909: 73; 1911: 50. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 27.

Primary type

Holotype ( Fig. 17E )

GUATEMLA • “Type [disc-shaped label, printed] \ B.C.A., Col., VII. Mycotretus [printed] \ Mycotretus hirudo, Gor. [handwritten] \ S. Geronimo, 3000 ft. Champion. [printed] \ HOLOTYPE Mycotretus hirudo Gorham, 1888 [red label, printed]”; BMNH.

Distribution

Guatemala.

Figures

Fig. 17. Gorham primary types (dorsal, labels) cont. A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus erraticus Gorham, 1888. B–B’. Lectotype of M. geminus Gorham, 1888. C–C’. Lectotype of M. haemapterus Gorham, 1888. D–D’. Holotype of M. haematicus Gorham, 1888. E–E’. Holotype of M. hirudo Gorham, 1888. F–F’. Lectotype of M. incarnatus Gorham, 1888. Scale bars = 1 mm.