Mycotretus illustris 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 : 38

30. Mycotretus illustris Crotch, 1876

Mycotretus illustris Crotch, 1876: 440 . Type locality: “ Mexico ”.

Mycotretus illustris – Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3693. — Gorham 1888: 54. — Kuhnt 1909: 72; 1911: 50. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 27. — Skelley 1998b: 15.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated ( Fig. 7B )

MEXICO • “TYPE. [printed], illustris mex. Sallé [handwritten] \ TYPE [blue label, printed] \ LECTOTYPE [printed], Mycotretus illustris Crotch, 1876 [red label, handwritten]”; UMZC.

Other specimens examined

MEXICO • 1 ♀ (dissected); “ Toxpam [printed] \ Mexico. Salle Coll. [printed] \ Mycotretus illustris Crotch = confluens Thom [?] apud Sallé [handwritten] \ B.C.A., Col., VII. Mycotretus [printed]”; BMNH .

Distribution

Mexico.

Remarks

According to Gorham (1888) it is “One of the largest and most beautiful species of this genus”.

Figures

Fig. 7. Crotch primary types (dorsal, labels) cont. A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus guatemalae Crotch, 1876. B–B’. Lectotype of M. illustris Crotch, 1876. C–C’. Lectotype of M. laeviventris Crotch, 1876. D–D’. Lectotype of M. lissomoides Crotch, 1876. E–E’. Lectotype of M. mutabilis Crotch, 1876. F–F’. Lectotype of M. mycetophagoides Crotch, 1876. Scale bars = 1 mm.