Catalogue of Mycotretus Lacordaire, 1842 (Coleoptera: Erotylidae: Tritomini): an annotated, illustrated and historical approach Author Pecci-Maddalena, Italo Salvatore de Castro 03AFD484-F7E4-4643-8637-C8DBCD5F9D02 Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Departamento de Biologia Geral, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Laboratório Regional de Pesquisa Em Sanidade Apícola (LASA), Secretaria de Agricultura e Abastecimento, Instituto Biológico, Agência Paulista de Tecnologia Dos Agronegócios (APTA), São Paulo, Brazil. Laboratório de Sistemática e Biologia de Coleoptera, Departamento de Biologia Animal, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Florida Department of Agriculture - DPI, P. O. Box 147100, Gainesville, FL 32614 - 7100, USA. italopecci@gmail.com Author Lopes-Andrade, Cristiano 6A3F4101-8599-44D9-9210-BCD5DD8564E9 cristiano.lopes@ufv.br Author Skelley, Paul B32C97F5-7D05-4887-9399-236C9C8AF75D Paul. Paul.Skelley@fdacs.gov text European Journal of Taxonomy 2023 2023-06-28 876 1 1 182 http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.876.2149 journal article 56536 10.5852/ejt.2023.876.2149 2be227e5-fadb-4896-8e57-4371aaf9d14a 2118-9773 8095647 63FDFE77-6D4F-412C-B77D-129F2AAE8C47 30. Mycotretus illustris Crotch, 1876 Mycotretus illustris Crotch, 1876: 440 . Type locality: “ Mexico ”. Mycotretus illustris Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3693 . — Gorham 1888: 54 . — Kuhnt 1909: 72 ; 1911: 50 . — Blackwelder 1945: 466 . — Alvarenga 1994: 27 . — Skelley 1998b: 15 . Primary type Lectotype , here designated ( Fig. 7B ) MEXICO • “TYPE. [printed], illustris mex. Sallé [handwritten] \ TYPE [blue label, printed] \ LECTOTYPE [printed], Mycotretus illustris Crotch, 1876 [red label, handwritten]”; UMZC . Other specimens examined MEXICO1 ♀ (dissected); “ Toxpam [printed] \ Mexico . Salle Coll. [printed] \ Mycotretus illustris Crotch = confluens Thom [?] apud Sallé [handwritten] \ B.C.A., Col., VII. Mycotretus [printed]”; BMNH . Distribution Mexico . Remarks According to Gorham (1888) it is “One of the largest and most beautiful species of this genus”.