Mycotretus nitescens 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 : 44

40. Mycotretus nitescens Crotch, 1876

Mycotretus nitescens Crotch, 1876: 445 . Type locality: “Ega” [= Tefé, in the state of Amazonas, North Brazil].

Mycotretus nitescens – Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3694. — Gorham 1888: 52. — Kuhnt 1909: 72; 1911: 51. — Blackwelder 1945: 467. — Alvarenga 1994: 30. — Skelley 1998b: 16.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated ( Fig. 8E )

BRAZIL • “TYPE [blue label, printed] \ TYPE. [printed], nitescens Ega Bates [handwritten] \ LECTOTYPE [printed], Mycotretus nitescens Crotch, 1876 [red label, handwritten]”; UMZC.

Other specimens examined

MEXICO • 1 ♂ (dissected); “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ Homeotipo [red label, printed] \ mex. [front] 56. 143 [back] [disc-shaped label, handwritten] \ Comparado com tipo [printed] Mycotretus nitescens Crotch, 1876 [handwritten] M. Alvarenga det. 1971 [printed] \ 1851 [printed] \ DZUP 132860 [printed]”; DZUP .

Distribution

Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, North Brazil.

Figures

Fig. 8. Crotch primary types (dorsal, labels) cont. A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus mycetophagoides erythrocerus Crotch, 1876. B–B’. Lectotype of M. mycetophiloides Crotch, 1876;. C–C’. Lectotype of M. mycetophiloides careus Crotch, 1876. D–D’. Lectotype of M. nigrotinctus Crotch, 1876. E–E’. Lectotype of M. nitescens Crotch, 1876. F–F’. Lectotype of M. opalescens Crotch, 1876. Scale bars = 1 mm.