Mycotretus epopterus Gorham, 1888

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 : 82

90. Mycotretus epopterus Gorham, 1888

Mycotretus epopterus Gorham, 1888: 69 . Type locality: “ Mexico, Toxpam”.

Mycotretus epopterus – Kuhnt 1909: 76; 1911: 49. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 25.

Primary type

Holotype ( Fig. 16F )

MEXICO • “Toxpam [handwritten] Mexico. Salle Coll. [printed] \ Sp. figured. [printed] \ 2388 [printed] \ Mycotretus epopterus, Gorh. [handwritten] \ B.C.A.,Col.,VII. Mycotretus [printed] \ HOLOTYPE Mycotretus epopterus Gorham, 1888 [red label, printed]”; BMNH.

Distribution

Mexico.

Figures

Fig. 16. Gorham primary types (dorsal, labels) cont. A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus consanguineus Gorham, 1888. B–B’. Lectotype of M. cribratus Gorham, 1888. C–C’. Holotype of M. crudus Gorham, 1888. D–D’. Lectotype of M. cruentus Gorham, 1888. E–E’. Lectotype of M. elegans Gorham, 1888. F–F’. Holotype of M. epopterus Gorham, 1888. Scale bars = 1 mm.