Mycotretus intermedius 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 : 136

173. Mycotretus intermedius Lacordaire, 1842

Mycotretus intermedius Lacordaire, 1842: 135 . Type locality: “Rio-Janeiro” [= Rio de Janeiro, state? locality?, Southeast Brazil].

Mycotretus intermedius – Crotch 1876: 449. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3693. — Kuhnt 1909: 76; 1911: 50. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 27.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated ( Fig. 31C )

BRAZIL • “ Lacordaire [handwritten] \ LECTOTYPE [printed] Mycotretus intermedius Lacordaire, 1842 [red label, handwritten]”; MRSN.

Remarks

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

Figures

Fig. 31. Lacordaire specimens cont. A–D, F. Primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus hepaticusLacordaire, 1842. B–B’. Holotype of M. hilaris Lacordaire, 1842. C–C’. Lectotype of M. intermedius Lacordaire, 1842. D–D’. Lectotype of M. jocosus Lacordaire, 1842. E–E’. Specimen of M. lacertosus Lacordaire, 1842 from the Alvarenga collection (MNRJ, Brazil). F–F’. Lectotype of M. lepidus Lacordaire, 1842. Scale bars: A–D, F = 1 mm; E = 0.5 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.