Mycotretus luteipes 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 : 140

179. Mycotretus luteipes Lacordaire, 1842

Mycotretus luteipes Lacordaire, 1842: 189 . Type locality: “ Mexique ”.

Mycotretus luteipes – Crotch 1876: 457. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3693. — Gorham 1888: 61. — Kuhnt 1909: 73; 1911: 50. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 28. — Skelley 1998b: 17.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated ( Fig. 32C )

MEXICO • “TYPE. [printed] luteipes Ch [handwritten] \ TYPE [blue label, printed] \ LECTOTYPE [printed] Mycotretus luteipes Lacordaire, 1842 [red label, handwritten]”; UMZC.

Other specimens examined

MEXICO • 1 ♀ (dissected); “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ Homeotipo [printed] \ Teapa, Tabasco. March. H.H.S. [printed] \ B.C.A., Col., VII. Mycotretus luteipes . [printed] \ Comparado com tipo [printed] Mycotretus luteipes Lac., 1842 [handwritten] M. Alvarenga det. 1971 [printed] \ 1635 [printed] \ DZUP 132948 [printed]”; DZUP • 1 ♂ (dissected); “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ Mexico. Salle Coll. [printed] \ Toxpam [printed] \ Mycotretus luteipes Lac apud Sallé [handwritten] \ B.C.A., Col., VII. Mycotretus luteipes . [printed] \ Homeotipo [printed]”; MNRJ .

Distribution

Mexico, Guatemala.

Figures

Fig. 32. Lacordaire specimens cont. A, C–F. Primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus leprosus Lacordaire, 1842. B–B’. Specimen of M. limbatus (Lacordaire, 1842) from the Crotch collection (UMZC, UK). C–C’. Lectotype of M. luteipes Lacordaire, 1842. D–D’. Lectotype of M. magus Lacordaire, 1842. E–E’. Holotype of M. marginicollis Lacordaire, 1842. F–F’. Lectotype of M. melanopterus Lacordaire, 1842. Scale bars = 1 mm.