Mycotretus stillatus Kuhnt, 1910

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 : 115

143. Mycotretus stillatus Kuhnt, 1910

Mycotretus stillatus Kuhnt, 1910: 239 . Type locality: “Caracas”[ Venezuela].

Mycotretus stillatus – Kuhnt 1911: 54. — Blackwelder 1945: 467. — Alvarenga 1994: 36.

Primary type

Holotype ( Fig. 25E )

VENEZUELA • “57784 [printed] \ Carácas [printed] \ Caracas, Rothe. [handwritten] \ Type [red label, printed] \ Mycotretus stillatus Kuhnt. [handwritten] det. P. Kuhnt [printed] \ Kuhnt det. [printed] \ HOLOTYPE Mycotretus stillatus Kuhnt, 1910 labelled by I. Pecci-Maddalena 2017 [red label, printed]”; MFN.

Distribution

Venezuela.

Remarks

Two specimens dissected by us, from the states of Rondônia and Paraíba ( Brazil), are phenotypically similar to the holotype of M. stillatus , differing from the latter only by slight variations of colour pattern on pronotum and elytra. However, as we have no more specimens for comparison, we did not consider those specimens as conspecific with M. stillatus .

Figures

Fig. 25. Kuhnt primary types (dorsal, labels) cont. A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus interstitialis Kuhnt, 1910. B–B’. Holotype of Brachysphaenus (Iphiclus) nigromaculatus Kuhnt, 1909 [currently M. nigromaculatus (Kuhnt)]. C–C’. Holotype of M. quadristriolatus Kuhnt, 1910. D–D’. Lectotype of M. sexlineatus Kuhnt, 1910.E–E’. Holotype ofM. stillatus Kuhnt, 1910.F–F’. Holotype ofM. thoracicus Kuhnt, 1910. Scale bars: B, E–F = 1 mm; A, C–D = see Material and methods.