Mycotretus xanthomelas 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 : 58

60. Mycotretus xanthomelas Crotch, 1876

Mycotretus xanthomelas Crotch, 1876: 458 . Type locality: “Para” [State of Pará, Brazil].

Mycotretus xanthomelas – Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3695. — Kuhnt 1909: 74; 1911: 54. — Blackwelder 1945: 468. — Alvarenga 1994: 37. — Skelley 1998b: 18.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated ( Fig. 12A )

BRAZIL • “TYPE [blue label, printed] \ TYPE. xanthomelas Para Chev [handwritten] \ LECTOTYPE [printed], Mycotretus xanthomelas Crotch, 1876 [red label, handwritten]”; UMZC.

Distribution

North Brazil.

Remarks

This is one of the largest Mycotretus that we examined.

Figures

Fig. 12. Primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus xanthomelas Crotch, 1876. B–B’. Holotype of M. ornatus partitialis Deelder, 1942. C–C’. Holotype of M. fidelis Deskeskamp, 1939 [= Brachysphaenus (Barytopus) parallelus Kuhnt, 1909]. D–D’. Holotype of M. sexoculatus chaparensis Delkeskamp, 1957.E–E’. Holotype ofM. ziczac serenus Delkeskamp, 1957. F–F’. Holotype of M. zischkai Delkeskamp, 1957. Scale bars: A, C, E = 1 mm; B, D, F = see Remarks.