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 26. Mycotretus episcaphoides Crotch, 1876 Mycotretus episcaphoides Crotch, 1876: 456 . Type locality: “Ega” [= Tefé, in the state of Amazonas, North Brazil ]. Mycotretus episcaphoides – Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3692 . — Kuhnt 1909: 71 ; 1911: 49 . — Blackwelder 1945: 466 . — Alvarenga 1994: 25 . — Skelley 1998b: 17 . Primary type Lectotype , here designated ( Fig. 6D ) BRAZIL • “TYPE [blue label, printed] \ TYPE. [printed], Episcaphoides Ega Bates [handwritten] \ LECTOTYPE [printed], Mycotretus episcaphoides Crotch, 1876 [red label, handwritten]”; UMZC . Other specimens examined ECUADOR • 1♂ (dissected); “ ECUADOR [printed] Napo-cuyabeno , 230 m , nov 17/85 [?][handwritten], Legit [printed] E. cotyiozo [?] [handwritten] \ Callischyrus n. sp. [handwritten]”; MNRJ . Distribution North Brazil ( Alvarenga 1994 ). Remarks Mycotretus episcaphoides resembles M. floriger ( Fig. 29F ) in body shape and morphology of male genitalia. The penile flagellum of M. episcaphoides is less sclerotized than that of M. floriger . Male genitalia of both species have a sinuosity at the anterior one-third of the flagellum virga. That sinuosity is strongly sclerotized in M. floriger and desclerotized in the examined M. episcaphoides . This morphology of the penile flagellum resembles that observed in M. chilensis Crotch ( Fig. 4F ) and M. trifasciatus Guérin ( Fig. 22A ) ( Pecci-Maddalena & Lopes-Andrade 2017 ).