Mycomystes apicalis ( 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 : 119-120

Mycomystes apicalis ( Lacordaire, 1842)

Mycotretus apicalis Lacordaire, 1842: 181 [description]. Type locality: “ Colombie ”.

Mycotretus gemmula Lacordaire, 1842: 181 [description] ( Fig. 30B ).

Mycotretus gentilis Lacordaire, 1842: 182 [description] ( Fig. 30C ).

Mycotretus nigroterminatus Lacordaire, 1842: 180 [description] ( Fig. 33F ).

Mycotretus pulicarius Lacordaire, 1842: 182 [description] ( Fig. 35A ).

Mycotretus coccinelloides Taschenberg, 1870: 198 [description] ( Fig. 40B ).

Mycotretus corallipennis Crotch, 1876: 448 [description] ( Fig. 5C ).

Mycotretus apicalis – Crotch 1876: 448. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3691. — Kuhnt 1909: 74; 1911: 48. — Mader 1942: 173; 1951: 214. — Blackwelder 1945: 465. — Alvarenga 1994: 20. — Skelley 1998b: 16. — Moreira et al. 2010a: 573; 2010b: 342. — McHugh & Chaboo 2015: 278. — Pecci-Maddalena & Lopes-Andrade 2017: 162; 2020: 585. — Pecci-Maddalena et al. 2021a: 955.

Mycotretus gemmula – Crotch 1876: 448. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3693. — Kuhnt 1909: 73; 1911: 50. — Mader 1942: 173; 1951: 214. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 26. — Skelley 1998b: 16. — McHugh & Chaboo 2015: 278. — Pecci-Maddalena et al. 2021b: 3078 [synonym of Mycomystes apicalis ].

Mycotretus gentilis – Crotch 1876: 448 [synonym with M. gemmula ]. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3693. — Kuhnt 1909: 73; 1911: 50. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 26. — Pecci-Maddalena et al. 2021b: 3078 [synonym of Mycomystes apicalis ].

Mycotretus nigroterminatus – Crotch 1876: 448. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3694. — Kuhnt 1909: 74; 1911: 51. — Blackwelder 1945: 467. — Guérin 1948: 20. — Alvarenga 1994: 30. — Skelley 1998b: 16. — Pecci-Maddalena et al. 2021b: 3078 [synonym of Mycomystes apicalis ].

Mycotretus pulicarius – Crotch 1876: 448 [synonym with M. gemmula ]. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3693. — Mader 1942: 173. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 26. — Pecci-Maddalena et al. 2021b: 3078 [synonym of Mycomystes apicalis ].

Mycotretus coccinelloides – Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3692. — Kuhnt 1909: 74; 1911: 48. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 22. — Pecci-Maddalena et al. 2021b: 3078 [synonym of Mycomystes apicalis ].

Mycotretus corallipennis – Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3692. — Kuhnt 1909: 71; 1911: 48. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 22. — Skelley 1998b: 16. — Pecci-Maddalena et al. 2021b: 3078 [synonym of Mycomystes apicalis ].

Mycomystes apicalis – Pecci-Maddalena et al. 2021b: 3078 .

Primary type

Lectotype ( Fig. 26E )

COLOMBIA • “Colombie [handwritten] \ Apicalis Lac [handwritten] \ Type [handwritten] \ Ex-Musaeo Mniszech [printed] \ LECTOTYPE [printed] Mycotretus apicalis Lacordaire, 1842 [red label, handwritten]”; MNHN.

Other specimens examined

See Pecci-Maddalena et al. (2021b).

Distribution

Southeast Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Argentina ( Pecci-Maddalena et al. 2021b).

Remarks

See Pecci-Maddalena et al. (2021b).

Figures

Fig. 30. Lacordaire primary types (dorsal, labels) cont. A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus fuscitarsis Lacordaire, 1842 [current combination Mycomystes fuscitarsis (Lacordaire)]. B–B’. Holotype of M. gemmula Lacordaire, 1842 [synonym of Mycomystes apicalis (Lacordaire)]. C–C’. Lectotype of M. gentilis Lacordaire, 1842 [synonym of Mycomystes apicalis (Lacordaire, 1842)]. D–D’. Lectotype of M. godarti Lacordaire, 1842. E–E’. Specimen of M. graniformis Lacordaire, 1842 from MRSN. F–F’. Lectotype of M. graphoderus Lacordaire, 1842. Scale bars = 1 mm.

Fig. 33. Lacordaire specimens cont. A–B, E–F. Primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus melanostictus Lacordaire, 1842. B–B’. Lectotype of M. miniatus Lacordaire, 1842. C–C’. Specimen of M. misellus Lacordaire, 1842 from the Crotch collection (UMZC, UK). D–D’. Specimen of M. nigrivittis Lacordaire, 1842 from MZSP (Brazil). E–E’. Lectotype of M. nigrocinctus Lacordaire, 1842. F–F’. Lectotype of M. nigroterminatus Lacordaire, 1842 [synonym of Mycomystes apicalis (Lacordaire, 1842)]. G–G’. Specimen of M. nugator Lacordaire, 1842 from the Alvarenga collection (MNRJ, Brazil). Scale bars: A–F = 1 mm; G = 0.5 mm.

Fig. 35. Lacordaire primary types (dorsal, labels) cont. A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus pulicarius Lacordaire, 1842 [synonym of Mycomystes apicalis (Lacordaire, 1842)]. B–B’. Lectotype of M. pusillus Lacordaire, 1842. C–C’. Lectotype of M. pygmaeus Lacordaire, 1842. D–D’. Lectotype of M. quadrinus Lacordaire, 1842. E–E’. Lectotype of M. quatuordecimguttatus Lacordaire, 1842. F–F’. Lectotype of M. rhodosomus Lacordaire, 1842. Scale bars = 1 mm.

Fig. 40. Taschenberg specimens. B–D, F. Primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Specimen of Mycotretus bicolor Taschenberg, 1870 from Alvarenga collection (MNRJ, Brazil). B–B’. Lectotype of M. coccinelloides Taschenberg, 1870 [synonym of Mycomystes apicalis (Lacordaire, 1842)]. C–C’. Lectotype of M. dimidiatus Taschenberg, 1870. D–D’. Lectotype of M. discoidalis Taschenberg, 1870 [synonym of Mycomystes melanophthalmus (Duponchel, 1825)]. E–E’. Specimen of M. dispar Taschenberg, 1870 from the Alvarenga collection (MNRJ, Brazil).F–F’. Lectotype ofM. multimaculatus Taschenberg, 1870. Scale bars: A = 0.5 mm; E = 1 mm; B–D, F = see Material and methods.

Fig. 5. Crotch primary types (dorsal, labels) cont. A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus chontalesi Crotch, 1873. B–B’. Lectotype of M. cinctiger Crotch, 1876. C–C’. Lectotype of M. corallipennis Crotch, 1876 [synonym of Mycomystes apicalis (Lacordaire, 1842)]. D–D’. Lectotype of M. cordiger Crotch, 1876. E–E’. Lectotype of M. cruciger Crotch, 1876. F–F’. Lectotype of M. decorus Crotch, 1876. Scale bars = 1 mm.

Fig. 26. A–B, D–F. Primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus virgatus Kuhnt, 1910 [= Iphiclus virgatus (Kuhnt), comb. nov.]. B–B’. Holotype of M. ziczac ziczac Kuhnt, 1910. C–C’. Specimen of M. aestuans Lacordaire, 1842 from the Alvarenga collection (MNRJ, Brazil). D–D’. Lectotype of M. ambulator Lacordaire, 1842. E–E’. Lectotype of M. apicalis Lacordaire, 1842 [current combinationMycomystes apicalis (Lacordaire)]. F–F’. Lectotype of M. argus Lacordaire, 1842. Scale bars: A = see Material and methods; B–F = 1 mm.