Mycotretus apicalis, Lacordaire, 1842

Pecci-Maddalena, Italo Salvatore De Castro, Lopes-Andrade, Cristiano & Skelley, Paul, 2020, The metendosternite and penile flagellum: two unexplored character systems of pleasing fungus beetles (Coleoptera: Erotylidae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 193, pp. 953-972 : 969

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa152

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5636698

persistent identifier

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Plazi

scientific name

Mycotretus apicalis
status

 

4. Mycotretus apicalis + M. melanophthalmus

( Fig. 1B, L View Figure 1 ; character 13:1 and Fig. 5B, C View Figure 5 ) ‘flagellum head elongate, angulated anteriorly, and fusing’. The body shape slightly rounded and the penile flagellum with a triangular flagellum head suggest that these species are probably closely related. Mycotretus apicalis and M. melanophthalmus also resemble Mycotretus peruvianus (not included here) in the nearly rounded, convex body and the nearly circular plate-like mentum. According to Skelley & Powell (2018), these features are present in Mycomystes Gorham and its relationship with those Mycotretus must be checked in future works.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Erotylidae

Genus

Mycotretus

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