Mycotretus ternotatus 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 : 97

115. Mycotretus ternotatus Gorham, 1888

Mycotretus ternotatus Gorham, 1888: 51 . Type locality: “ Mexico, Jalapa”.

Mycotretus ternotatus – Kuhnt 1909: 76; 1911: 54. — Blackwelder 1945: 467. — Alvarenga 1994: 36.

Primary type

Holotype ( Fig. 21A )

MEXICO • “ Type [disc-shaped label, printed] \ Jalapa, Vera Cruz. Höge. [printed] \ Type. Sp. figured. [printed] \ Mycotretus ternotatus [handwritten] \? [handwritten] signatellus [handwritten] \ B.C.A.,Col.,VII. Mycotretus [printed] \ HOLOTYPE Mycotretus ternotatus Gorham, 1888 [red label, printed]”; BMNH.

Distribution

Mexico.

Remarks

Mycotretus ternotatus resembles M. signatellus Crotch ( Fig. 11B ) in colour and body shape.

Figures

Fig. 21. Primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Holotype of Mycotretus ternotatus Gorham, 1888. B–B’. Holotype of M. tibialis Gorham, 1888. C–C’. Lectotype of M. vittatus Gorham, 1888. D–D’. Holotype of M. anchoralis Guérin, 1956. E–E’. Holotype of M. bicinctus Guérin, 1949. F–F’. Holotype of M. monrosi Guérin, 1949. Scale bars: A–C, F = 1 mm; D–E = 0.5 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.