Mycotretus mycetophagoides erythrocerus 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 : 41-42

36. Mycotretus mycetophagoides erythrocerus Crotch, 1876

Mycotretus mycetophagoides erythrocerus Crotch, 1876: 457 [as a variety]. Type locality: “Tapagos” [= Tapajós, in the state of Pará, North Brazil].

Mycotretus mycetophagoides erythrocerus – Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3694. — Kuhnt 1909: 71; 1911: 51. — Blackwelder 1945: 467. — Alvarenga 1994: 30. — Skelley 1998b: 18.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated ( Fig. 8A )

BRAZIL • “TYPE [blue label, printed] \ TYPE. [printed], erythrocerus Tapajos B [handwritten] \ LECTOTYPE [printed], Mycotretus mycetophagoides erythrocerus Crotch, 1876 [red label, handwritten]”; UMZC.

Other specimens examined

BRAZIL • 1 ♂ (dissected); “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ Estirão do Equador, Amazonas, Brasil X. 1979, M. Alvarenga [printed] \ M [printed] \ Mycotretus mycetophagoides v. erythrocerus CR, 1876 [handwritten] M. Alvarenga det. [printed] 1989 [handwritten]”; MNRJ .

Distribution

North Brazil.

Remarks

We had no specimen of M. mycetophagoides erythrocerus for comparison with M. mycetophagoides mycetophagoides . The former may be an infraspecific variation of the latter, but we prefer not to synonymize it at this moment.

Figures

Fig. 8. Crotch primary types (dorsal, labels) cont. A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus mycetophagoides erythrocerus Crotch, 1876. B–B’. Lectotype of M. mycetophiloides Crotch, 1876;. C–C’. Lectotype of M. mycetophiloides careus Crotch, 1876. D–D’. Lectotype of M. nigrotinctus Crotch, 1876. E–E’. Lectotype of M. nitescens Crotch, 1876. F–F’. Lectotype of M. opalescens Crotch, 1876. Scale bars = 1 mm.