Mycotretus laeviventris 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 : 38

31. Mycotretus laeviventris Crotch, 1876

Mycotretus laeviventris Crotch, 1876: 454 . Type locality: “ Mexico ”.

Mycotretus laeviventris – Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3693. — Gorham 1888: 51. — Kuhnt 1909: 76; 1911: 50. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 28. — Skelley 1998b: 17.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated ( Fig. 7C )

MEXICO • “TYPE [blue label, printed] \ TYPE [printed], laeviventris Mex. [handwritten] \ LECTOTYPE [printed], Mycotretus laeviventris Crotch, 1876 [red label, handwritten]”; UMZC.

Other specimens examined

MEXICO • 1 ♀ (dissected); “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ Homeotipo [red label, printed] \ Volcán Sn. Martín , Ver. 29/v/51, Alfredo Barrera [handwritten] \ Volcán Sn. Martín, VER. 29–V–51, A. Barrera. [printed] \ Comparado com tipo [printed] Mycotretus laeviventris Crotch, 1876 [handwritten] M. Alvarenga det. 1971 [printed] \ 1766 [printed]”; MNRJ .

Distribution

Mexico.

Figures

Fig. 7. Crotch primary types (dorsal, labels) cont. A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus guatemalae Crotch, 1876. B–B’. Lectotype of M. illustris Crotch, 1876. C–C’. Lectotype of M. laeviventris Crotch, 1876. D–D’. Lectotype of M. lissomoides Crotch, 1876. E–E’. Lectotype of M. mutabilis Crotch, 1876. F–F’. Lectotype of M. mycetophagoides Crotch, 1876. Scale bars = 1 mm.