Mycotretus cercyonoides 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 : 76-78

83. Mycotretus cercyonoides Gorham, 1888

Mycotretus cercyonoides Gorham, 1888: 67 . Type locality: “ Panama, David” [province of Chiriquí, Panama].

Mycotretus cercyonoides – Kuhnt 1909: 74; 1911: 48. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 22. — Pecci-Maddalena et al. 2021b: 3099.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated ( Fig. 15E )

PANAMA • “B.C.A.,Col.,VII. Mycotretus [printed] \ Mycotretus cercyonides [handwritten] \ David, Panama. Champion. [printed] \ Type [disc-shaped label, printed] \ LECTOTYPE Mycotretus cercyonoides Gorham, 1888 [printed] (left) [red label, handwritten]”; BMNH.

Other specimens examined

Paralectotype

PANAMA • 1 spec.; “B.C.A.,Col.,VII. Mycotretus [printed] \ Mycotretus cercyonides [handwritten] \ David, Panama. Champion. [printed] \ Type [disc-shaped label, printed] \ PARALECTOTYPE Mycotretus cercyonoides Gorham, 1888 [printed] (right) [yellow label, handwritten]”; BMNH.

Distribution

Panama.

Remarks

The lectotype and paralectotype are mounted on the same card and, therefore, we included their type labels on that same pin. The lectotype is the specimen on the left and the paralectotype is the specimen on the right side of the card. Only the lectotype is shown here ( Fig. 15E ).

Figures

Fig. 15. Gorham primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Holotype of Mycotretus atricaudatus Gorham, 1888. B–B’. Lectotype of M. badius Gorham, 1888. C–C’. Lectotype of M. bipunctatus Gorham, 1888. D–D’. Holotype of M. brevis Gorham, 1888. E–E’. Lectotype of M. cercyonoides Gorham, 1888. F–F’. Lectotype of M. coccidulinus Gorham, 1888. Scale bars = 1 mm.