Mycotretus quadripunctatus Crotch, 1876

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 : 49

47. Mycotretus quadripunctatus Crotch, 1876

Mycotretus quadripunctatus Crotch, 1876: 450 . Type locality: “N. Peru ” [Northern Peru, apud Alvarenga 1994].

Mycotretus quadripunctatus – Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3694. — Kuhnt 1909: 76; 1911: 52. — Mader 1942: 174; 1951: 219, 223. — Blackwelder 1945: 467. — Alvarenga 1994: 33. — Skelley 1998b: 17. — McHugh & Chaboo 2015: 278.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated ( Fig. 9F )

PERU • “TYPE [blue label, printed] \ TYPE. [printed], 4-punctatus N. Peru. Bates [handwritten] \ LECTOTYPE [printed], Mycotretus quadripunctatus Crotch, 1876 [red label, handwritten]”; UMZC.

Distribution

Colombia, Ecuador, Peru.

Remarks

As pointed out by Skelley (1998b), and confirmed here, the lectotype lacks prothorax and head.

Figures

Fig. 9. Crotch primary types (dorsal, labels) cont. A–A’. Lectotype of Ischyrus pallidior Crotch, 1876 [currently Mycotretus pallidior (Crotch)]. B–B’. Lectotype of Mycotretus parallelus Crotch, 1876. C–C’. Lectotype of M. pebasensis Crotch, 1876. D–D’. Lectotype of M. peruae Crotch, 1876. E–E’. Lectotype of M. psylloboroides Crotch, 1876. F–F’. Lectotype of M. quadripunctatus Crotch, 1876. Scale bars = 1 mm.