Mycotretus mycetophiloides careus 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 : 42

38. Mycotretus mycetophiloides careus Crotch, 1876

Mycotretus mycetophiloides careus Crotch, 1876: 458 [as a variety]. Type locality: “Ega” [= Tefé, Amazonas, Brazil, type locality mentioned only on the type label].

Mycotretus mycetophiloides careus – Kuhnt 1909: 74; 1911: 51. — Blackwelder 1945: 467. — Alvarenga 1994: 30. — Skelley 1998b: 18.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated ( Fig. 8C )

BRAZIL • “TYPE [blue label, printed] \ TYPE. [printed], careus Ega B [handwritten] \ LECTOTYPE [printed], Mycotretus mycetophiloides careus Crotch, 1876 [red label, handwritten]”; UMZC.

Distribution

North Brazil.

Remarks

We have no specimen of M. mycetophiloides careus at hand, but it is probably only an infraspecific variation of M. mycetophiloides .

Figures

Fig. 8. Crotch primary types (dorsal, labels) cont. A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus mycetophagoides erythrocerus Crotch, 1876. B–B’. Lectotype of M. mycetophiloides Crotch, 1876;. C–C’. Lectotype of M. mycetophiloides careus Crotch, 1876. D–D’. Lectotype of M. nigrotinctus Crotch, 1876. E–E’. Lectotype of M. nitescens Crotch, 1876. F–F’. Lectotype of M. opalescens Crotch, 1876. Scale bars = 1 mm.