Mycotretus scalaris 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 : 156

204. Mycotretus scalaris Lacordaire, 1842

Mycotretus scalaris Lacordaire, 1842: 168 . Type locality: “ Colombie ”.

Mycotretus scalaris – Crotch 1876: 440. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3695. — Kuhnt 1909: 71; 1911: 53. — Blackwelder 1945: 467. — Alvarenga 1994: 35.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated ( Fig. 36D )

COLOMBIA • “Ex-Musaeo, Mniszech [printed] \ Type [handwritten] \ Scalaris Lac [handwritten] \ Colombie [handwritten] \ LECTOTYPE [printed] Mycotretus scalaris Lacordaire, 1842 [red label, handwritten]”; MNHN.

Distribution

Unknown locality in Colombia.

Figures

Fig. 36. Lacordaire specimens cont. C–F. Primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Specimen of Mycotretus rufilabris (Lacordaire, 1842) from the Alvarenga collection (MNRJ, Brazil). B–B’. Specimen of M. sannio Lacordaire, 1842 from the Crotch collection (UMZC, UK). C–C’. Lectotype of M. savignyi Lacordaire, 1842. D–D’. Lectotype of M. scalaris Lacordaire, 1842. E–E’. Lectotype of M. scitulus Lacordaire, 1842. F–F’. Lectotype of M. sexoculatus sexoculatus Lacordaire, 1842. Scale bars: A = 0.5 mm; B–F = 1 mm.