Mycotretus coccinelloides Taschenberg, 1870

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 : 171-173

Mycotretus coccinelloides Taschenberg, 1870

Mycotretus coccinelloides Taschenberg, 1870: 198 ( Fig. 40B ). Type locality: not mentioned in the description [based on type label = Colombia].

Mycotretus coccinelloides – Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3692. — Kuhnt 1909: 74; 1911: 48. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 22. — Pecci-Maddalena et al. 2021b: 3078 [synonym of Mycomystes apicalis ].

Primary type

Lectotype ( Fig. 40B )

COLOMBIA • “LECTOTYPE, Mycotretus coccinelloides Taschenberg, 1870 , det. I. Pecci-Maddalena 2017 [red label, printed] \ coccinelloides, Zeitschr. 1870 . Colomb. Wallis [handwritten]”; ZNS.

Remarks

Synonym of Mycomystes apicalis ( Lacordaire, 1842) ( Pecci-Maddalena et al. 2021b; Fig. 26E above).

Figures

Fig. 40. Taschenberg specimens. B–D, F. Primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Specimen of Mycotretus bicolor Taschenberg, 1870 from Alvarenga collection (MNRJ, Brazil). B–B’. Lectotype of M. coccinelloides Taschenberg, 1870 [synonym of Mycomystes apicalis (Lacordaire, 1842)]. C–C’. Lectotype of M. dimidiatus Taschenberg, 1870. D–D’. Lectotype of M. discoidalis Taschenberg, 1870 [synonym of Mycomystes melanophthalmus (Duponchel, 1825)]. E–E’. Specimen of M. dispar Taschenberg, 1870 from the Alvarenga collection (MNRJ, Brazil).F–F’. Lectotype ofM. multimaculatus Taschenberg, 1870. Scale bars: A = 0.5 mm; E = 1 mm; B–D, F = see Material and methods.

Fig. 26. A–B, D–F. Primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus virgatus Kuhnt, 1910 [= Iphiclus virgatus (Kuhnt), comb. nov.]. B–B’. Holotype of M. ziczac ziczac Kuhnt, 1910. C–C’. Specimen of M. aestuans Lacordaire, 1842 from the Alvarenga collection (MNRJ, Brazil). D–D’. Lectotype of M. ambulator Lacordaire, 1842. E–E’. Lectotype of M. apicalis Lacordaire, 1842 [current combinationMycomystes apicalis (Lacordaire)]. F–F’. Lectotype of M. argus Lacordaire, 1842. Scale bars: A = see Material and methods; B–F = 1 mm.