Mycotretus dubius Lacordaire, 1842

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 : 127

159. Mycotretus dubius Lacordaire, 1842

Mycotretus dubius Lacordaire, 1842: 141 . Type locality: “ Brésil ”.

Mycotretus dubius – Crotch 1876: 449. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3692. — Kuhnt 1909: 75; 1911: 49. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 24.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated ( Fig. 28E )

GRAZIL • “ Brésil [handwritten] \ Dubius Lac [handwritten] \ Type [handwritten] \ Ex-Musaeo Mniszech [printed] \ LECTOTYPE [printed] Mycotretus dubius Lacordaire, 1842 [red label, handwritten]”; MNHN.

Remarks

New junior synonym of M. ornatus ( Duponchel, 1825) ( Fig. 14A , see above).

Figures

Fig. 28. Lacordaire specimens cont. B, D–F. Primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Specimen of Mycotretus difficilis Lacordaire, 1842 from the MZSP collection (Brazil).B–B’. Lectotype ofM. distigma Lacordaire, 1842. C–C’. Specimen of M. dorsofasciatus Lacordaire, 1842 from the Crotch collection (UMZC, UK). D–D’. Holotype of M. dorsonotatus Lacordaire, 1842. E–E’. Lectotype of M. dubius Lacordaire, 1842. F–F’. Lectotype of M. durius Lacordaire, 1842. Scale bars = 1 mm.

Fig. 14. A–C, E–F. Primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Lectotype of Erotylus ornatus Duponchel [currently Mycotretus ornatus (Duponchel)]. B–B’. Lectotype of E. maculosus Duponchel, 1825 [currently M. maculosus (Duponchel)]. C–C’. Lectotype of E. sanguineus Duponchel, 1825 [currently M. sanguineus (Duponchel)]. D–D’. Topotype of M. unicolor Fauvel, 1860 from RBINS (Belgium) [synonym of Mycomystes coccineus (Lacordaire, 1842)]. E–E’. Lectotype of M. aegrotus Gorham, 1888. F–F’. Lectotype of M. alternans Gorham, 1888. Scale bars = 1 mm.