Mycotretus expressus Kuhnt, 1910

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 : 110

134. Mycotretus expressus Kuhnt, 1910

Mycotretus expressus Kuhnt, 1910: 237 . Type locality: “Jatahy, Provinz Goyaz” [= Jatai, state of Goiás, Central-West Brasil].

Mycotretus expressus – Kuhnt 1911: 49. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 25. — Pecci-Maddalena et al. 2021a: 955.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated ( Fig. 24C )

BRAZIL • “104384 [printed] \ Jatahy GOYAZ [printed] \ Mycotretus expressus Kuhnt [handwritten] \ Mycotretus expressus Kuhnt [handwritten] \ LECTOTYPE Mycotretus expressus Kuhnt, 1910 det. I. Pecci-Maddalena 2017 [red label, printed]”; MFN.

Other specimens examined

BRAZIL • 1 ♂ (dissected); “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ homeotipo [printed] \ V. Rondônia, Rondônia Brasil, I–1961, A. Machado [printed] \ Comparado com tipo [printed] Mycotretus expressus Kuhnt, 1910 [handwritten] M. Alvarenga det. 1971 [printed] \ 1706 [printed] \ DZUP 132677 [printed]”; DZUP • 1 ♀ (dissected); “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ V. Rondônia, Rondônia Brasil, I–1961, A. Machado [printed] \ DZUP 132683 [printed]”; DZUP .

Distribution

Central-West and North Brazil.

Figures

Fig. 24. Kuhnt primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus discipennis Kuhnt, 1910. B–B’. Lectotype of M. discipennis conductus Kuhnt, 1910. C–C’. Lectotype of M. expressus Kuhnt, 1910. D–D’. Holotype of M. fascipennis Kuhnt, 1910. E–E’. Lectotype of M. graphoderus strigipennis Kuhnt, 1910. F–F’. Lectotype of M. graphoderus thoracicus Kuhnt, 1910. Scale bars: C–D = 1 mm; A–B, E–F = see Material and methods.