Catalogue of Mycotretus Lacordaire, 1842 (Coleoptera: Erotylidae: Tritomini): an annotated, illustrated and historical approach
Author
Pecci-Maddalena, Italo Salvatore de Castro
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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
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cristiano.lopes@ufv.br
Author
Skelley, Paul
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Paul.
Paul.Skelley@fdacs.gov
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European Journal of Taxonomy
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2023-06-28
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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
MEXICO
•
1 ♀
(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”.