Mycotretus quadrinus 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 : 152

198. Mycotretus quadrinus Lacordaire, 1842

Mycotretus quadrinus Lacordaire, 1842: 155 ( Fig. 35D ). Type locality: “ Brésil ”.

Mycotretus quadrinus – Crotch 1876: 455 [junior synonym]. — Alvarenga 1994: 29.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated ( Fig. 35D )

BRAZIL • “TYPE. [printed] quadrinus Ch [handwritten] \ TYPE [blue label, printed] \ LECTOTYPE [printed] Mycotretus quadrinus Lacordaire, 1842 [red label, handwritten]”; UMCZ.

Remarks

Synonym of M. minutus Duponchel, 1825 ( Fig. 13E , see above).

Figures

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. 13. A–D. Duponchel primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Lectotype of Erotylus coronatus Duponchel, 1825 [currently Mycotretus coronatus (Duponchel)]. B–B’. Lectotype of E. decoratus Duponchel, 1825 [currently M. decoratus (Duponchel)]. C–C’. Lectotype of E. duodecimguttatus Duponchel, 1825 [currentlyM. duodecimguttatus (Duponchel)].D–D’. Lectotype ofE. melanophthalmus Duponchel, 1825 [currently Mycomystes melanophthalmus (Duponchel)]. E–E’. Specimen of M. minutus (Duponchel, 1825) from the DZUP collection (Brazil).F–F’. Specimen of M. nigropunctatus (Duponchel, 1825) from the Brême collection (MRSN). Scale bars: A–D = 1 mm; E = 0.5 mm; F = see Material and methods.