Mycotretus tricolor Crotch, 1876

Pecci-Maddalena, Italo Salvatore de Castro, Lopes-Andrade, Cristiano & Skelley, Paul, 2023, Catalogue of Mycotretus Lacordaire, 1842 (Coleoptera: Erotylidae: Tritomini): an annotated, illustrated and historical approach, European Journal of Taxonomy 876 (1), pp. 1-182 : 57-58

59. Mycotretus tricolor Crotch, 1876

Mycotretus tricolor Crotch, 1876: 444 . Type locality: “Ega” [= Tefé, in the stateAmazonas, North Brazil].

Mycotretus tricolor – Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3695. — Kuhnt 1909: 71; 1911: 54. — Mader 1942: 172; 1951: 212. — Blackwelder 1945: 468. — Alvarenga 1994: 37. — Skelley 1998b: 16. — McHugh & Chaboo 2015: 278.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated ( Fig. 11E )

BRAZIL • “TYPE [blue label, printed] \ TYPE. tricolor Ega Bates [handwritten] \ LECTOTYPE [printed], Mycotretus tricolor Crotch, 1876 [red label, handwritten]”; UMZC.

Other specimens examined

BRAZIL • 1 ♀ (dissected); “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ Homeotipo [red label, printed] \ TABATINGA , Amazonas BRASIL [printed] X. 1958 [handwritten] F.M. Oliveira [printed] \ Mycotretus tricolor Crotch., 1876 [handwritten], M. Alvarenga det. [printed] 1971 [handwritten] \ PMMA [handwritten]”; MNRJ • 1 ♀ (dissected); “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ Homeotipo [red label, printed] \ TEFÉ, Amazonas Brasil [printed] VIII.1957 [handwritten] R. Carvalho [printed] \ Comparado com tipo [printed] Mycotretus tricolor Crotch, 1876 [handwritten] M. Alvarenga det. 1971 [printed] \ 1840 [printed] \ DZUP 132801 [printed]”; DZUP • 1 ♂ (dissected); “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ TABATINGA, Amazonas BRASIL [printed] Out. [handwritten]-1956 [printed], F.M.Oliveira [printed] \ 1839 [printed] \ DZUP 132802 [printed]”; DZUP.

Distribution

Peru, North Brazil.

Figures

Fig. 11. Crotch primary types (dorsal, labels) cont. A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus sericeonitens Crotch, 1876. B–B’. Lectotype of M. signatellus Crotch, 1876. C–C’. Lectotype of M. signatellus imperfectus Crotch, 1876. D–D’. Lectotype of M. succinctus Crotch, 1876. E–E’. Lectotype of M. tricolor Crotch, 1876. Scale bars = 1 mm.