Mycotretus dimidiatus Taschenberg, 1870

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 : 173

227. Mycotretus dimidiatus Taschenberg, 1870

Mycotretus dimidiatus Taschenberg, 1870: 198 . Type locality: “ Colombia ”.

Mycotretus dimidiatus – Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3692. — Kuhnt 1909: 71; 1911: 49. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 24.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated ( Fig. 40C )

COLOMBIA • “dimidiatus*, Zeitschr. 1870. Colomb. Wallis [green label, handwritten, box label] \ LECTOTYPE Mycotretus dimidiatus Taschenberg, 1870 det. I. Pecci-Maddalena 2017 [red label, printed]”; ZNS.

Distribution

Unknown locality in Colombia.

Figures

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.