Mycotretus melanotus 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 : 87

100. Mycotretus melanotus Gorham, 1888

Mycotretus melanotus Gorham, 1888: 66 . Type locality: “ Panama, La Caldera in Chiriqui ” [province of Chiriquí, Panama].

Mycotretus melanotus – Kuhnt 1909: 71; 1911: 51. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 29.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated ( Fig. 18D )

PANAMA • “Type [disc-shaped label, printed] \ Caldera, 1200 ft. Champion [printed] \ Mycotretus melanotus , G. [handwritten] \ B.C.A.,Col.,VII Mycotretus [printed] \ LECTOTYPE Mycotretus melanotus Gorham, 1888 [red label, printed]”; BMNH.

Distribution

Panama.

Figures

Fig. 18. Gorham primary types (dorsal, labels) cont. A–A’. Holotype of Mycotretus interstictus Gorham, 1888. B–B’. Holotype of M. laccophilinus Gorham, 1888. C–C’. Lectotype of M. luteolus Gorham, 1888. D–D’. Lectotype of M. melanotus Gorham, 1888. E–E’. Holotype of M. nigricollis Gorham, 1888. F–F’. Holotype of Mycotretus nigripes Gorham, 1888. Scale bars = 1 mm.