Mycotretus peruae 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 : 48

45. Mycotretus peruae Crotch, 1876

Mycotretus peruae Crotch, 1876: 446 . Type locality: “ Peru ”.

Mycotretus peruae – Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3694. — Kuhnt 1909: 73; 1911: 52. — Mader 1942: 172; 1951: 213. — Blackwelder 1945: 467. — Alvarenga 1994: 32. — Skelley 1998b: 16. — McHugh & Chaboo 2015: 278.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated ( Fig. 9D )

PARU • “TYPE [blue label, printed] \ TYPE. [printed], Peruae Peru Jans [handwritten] \ LECTOTYPE [printed], Mycotretus peruae Crotch, 1876 [red label, handwritten]”; UMZC.

Other specimens examined

Paralectotype

PERU • 1 spec.; “PARATYPE [blue label, printed] \ PARALECTOTYPE [printed]?, Mycotretus peruae Crotch, 1876 [yellow label, handwritten]”; UMZC.

Distribution

Unknown locality in Peru.

Remarks

One specimen placed close to the lectotype in the museum drawer has a single label on which is written “ PARATYPE ”. In the Crotch collection, most specimens which appear to be types have an additional blue “TYPE” or “ PARATYPE ” label of unknown origin ( Skelley 1998b). We considered this specimen a paralectotype of M. peruae , but included a question mark on its label. Mycotretus peruae is morphologically similar to M. bicolor ( Fig. 40A ).

Figures

Fig. 9. Crotch primary types (dorsal, labels) cont. A–A’. Lectotype of Ischyrus pallidior Crotch, 1876 [currently Mycotretus pallidior (Crotch)]. B–B’. Lectotype of Mycotretus parallelus Crotch, 1876. C–C’. Lectotype of M. pebasensis Crotch, 1876. D–D’. Lectotype of M. peruae Crotch, 1876. E–E’. Lectotype of M. psylloboroides Crotch, 1876. F–F’. Lectotype of M. quadripunctatus Crotch, 1876. Scale bars = 1 mm.

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.