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 212. Mycotretus tigratus Lacordaire, 1842 Mycotretus tigratus Lacordaire, 1842: 150 . Type locality: “ Colombie ”. Mycotretus nigrocinctus Lacordaire, 1842: 151 ( Fig. 33E ). Type locality: “ Colombie ”. Mycotretus trabeatus Lacordaire, 1842: 148 . Type locality: “ Colombie ” syn. nov. ( Fig. 37E ). Mycotretus tigratus – Crotch 1876: 451 . — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3695 . — Kuhnt 1909: 74 ; 1911: 54 . — Blackwelder 1945: 467 . — Mader 1951: 217 . — Alvarenga 1994: 36 . Mycotretus nigrocinctus – Crotch 1876: 451 [synonym of M. tigratus Lacordaire, 1842 ]. — Kuhnt 1909: 74 ; 1911 : 54451 . — Blackwelder 1945 : 467451 . — Mader 1951 : 217451 . — Alvarenga 1994: 36 . Mycotretus trabeatus – Crotch 1876: 451 . — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3695 . — Kuhnt 1909: 74 ; 1911: 54 . — Deelder 1942: 90 . — Mader 1951: 216 . — Blackwelder 1945: 468 . — Alvarenga 1994: 37 . — Skelley 1998b: 17 . Primary type Lectotype , here designated ( Fig. 37D ) COLOMBIA • “Ex-Musaeo Mniszech [printed] \ Type [handwritten] \ Tigratus Lac [handwritten] \ Colombie [handwritten] \ LECTOTYPE [printed] Mycotretus tigratus Lacordaire, 1842 [red label, handwritten]”; MNHN . Distribution Unknown locality in Colombia . Remarks 1) The small differences in coloration of Mycotretus nigrocinctus Lacordaire , M. trabeatus Lacordaire and M. tigratus Lacordaire are expected to occur in species of Mycotretus of a single locality and, in spite of that, we observed that these species have the same general colour pattern. Therefore, here we synonymized M. trabeatus Lacordaire under M. tigratus Lacordaire. 2) Crotch (1876) placed M. nigrocintus under M. tigratus stating only the following: “ M. nigrocinctus has lost the elytral spot, retaining only the band”. That act was interpreted by Kuhnt (1909) as a “variety” and was repeated in subsequent works ( Kuhnt 1911 ; Blackwelder 1945 ). Later, Mader (1951) stated the following: “tigratus a. nigrocintus Lac. ”, with the “a” probably meaning an “aberration” and this interpretation was followed by Alvarenga (1994) . Here, we considered Crotch’s act as a synonymy and consider use of the term “aberration” as incorrect.