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
6A3F4101-8599-44D9-9210-BCD5DD8564E9
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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35.
Mycotretus mycetophagoides mycetophagoides
Crotch, 1876
Mycotretus mycetophagoides
Crotch, 1876: 457
.
Type
locality: “Para” [State of Pará,
Brazil
].
Mycotretus mycetophagoides
–
Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3694
. —
Kuhnt 1909: 71
;
1911: 51
. —
Blackwelder 1945: 467
. —
Alvarenga 1994: 30
. —
Skelley 1998b: 17
.
Primary type
Lectotype
, here designated (
Fig. 7F
)
BRAZIL
• “TYPE [blue label, printed] \ TYPE. [printed], mycetophagoides Para B. [handwritten] \ LECTOTYPE [printed],
Mycotretus mycetophagoides
Crotch, 1876
[red label, handwritten]”;
UMZC
.
Distribution
North
Brazil
(
Alvarenga 1994
).
Remarks
Resembles
M. pulchellus
Lacordaire
(
Fig. 34F
), but differs in having an entire yellow spot at the basal third of elytra, rather than a divided yellow spot. We have no specimen of
M. mycetophagoides
at hand, but comparison of their descriptions has shown they may be conspecific.