Mycotretus succinctus 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 : 55-57

57. Mycotretus succinctus Crotch, 1876

Mycotretus succinctus Crotch, 1876: 452 . Type locality: “N. Granada ” [The old Viceroyalty of New Granada, which at various times included parts of Colombia, Panama, Ecuador and Venezuela; without details of which country].

Mycotretus succinctus – Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3695. — Kuhnt 1909: 74; 1911: 54. — Deelder 1942: 90. — Blackwelder 1945: 467. — Alvarenga 1994: 36. — Skelley 1998b: 17.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated ( Fig. 11D )

UNKNOWN COUNTRY or COLOMBIA • “TYPE [blue label, printed] \ TYPE. succinctus, N. Gran Reiche. [handwritten] \ LECTOTYPE [printed], Mycotretus succinctus Crotch, 1876 [red label, handwritten]”; UMZC.

Other specimens examined

UNKNOWN COUNTRY • 1 spec.; “Col. [handwritten]”; UMZC .

Distribution

Colombia.

Remarks

In the UMZC drawer, there is one specimen placed close to the lectotype and labeled “Col.” (handwritten), but we do not know whether it is a syntype and prefer not to label it as a paralectotype.

Figures

Fig. 11. Crotch primary types (dorsal, labels) cont. A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus sericeonitens Crotch, 1876. B–B’. Lectotype of M. signatellus Crotch, 1876. C–C’. Lectotype of M. signatellus imperfectus Crotch, 1876. D–D’. Lectotype of M. succinctus Crotch, 1876. E–E’. Lectotype of M. tricolor Crotch, 1876. Scale bars = 1 mm.