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
B32C97F5-7D05-4887-9399-236C9C8AF75D
Paul.
Paul.Skelley@fdacs.gov
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European Journal of Taxonomy
2023
2023-06-28
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195.
Mycotretus pulchellus
Lacordaire, 1842
Mycotretus pulchellus
Lacordaire, 1842: 177
.
Type
locality: “Rio-Janeiro” [=
Rio de Janeiro
, state? locality?, Southeast
Brazil
].
Mycotretus pulchellus
–
Crotch 1876: 446
. —
Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3694
. —
Kuhnt 1909: 71
;
1911: 52
. —
Blackwelder 1945: 467
. —
Alvarenga 1994: 33
.
Primary type
Holotype
(
Fig. 34F
)
BRAZIL
• “
D. Lacordaire
[handwritten] \ Holotype
Mycotretus pulchellus
Lacordaire, 1842
[red label, handwritten]”;
MRSN
.
Other specimens examined
BRAZIL
•
1 spec.
; “Ex-Musaeo Mniszech [printed] \ Type [handwritten] \
Pulchellus Lac
[handwritten] \ Brésil [handwritten]”;
MNHN
•
1 ♀
(dissected); “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \
CORCOVADO
,
Guanabara
BRASIL
[printed]
X. 1970
[handwritten],
Alvarenga
&
Seabra
[printed] \
Mycotretus pulchellus Lac. 1842
[handwritten]
M. Alvarenga
det. [printed] 1984 [handwritten]”;
MNRJ
.
Distribution
Southeast
Brazil
.
Remarks
The examined specimen (MNHN) was mistakenly labelled as “
lectotype
”, but the specimen from MRSN (
Fig. 34F
) is the true
holotype
(see the case of the
lectotypes
of
M. palmiphilus
Lacordaire
Fig. 34A and
M
. polyophthalmus Lacordaire
Fig. 34D
above).