Mycotretus cognatus Lacordaire, 1842

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 : 123

153. Mycotretus cognatus Lacordaire, 1842

Mycotretus cognatus Lacordaire, 1842: 145 . Type locality: “Rio-janeiro” [= Rio de Janeiro, state? locality?, Southeast Brazil].

Mycotretus cognatus – Crotch 1876: 450. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3692. — Kuhnt 1909: 75; 1911: 48. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 22. — Skelley 1998b: 16.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated ( Fig. 27E )

BRAZIL • “Coll. R.I.Sc.N.B., Brazil, Coll. Chapuis [printed], Rio Jan. [handwritten] \ Mycotretus cognatus , Rio Jan. Lac. [handwritten]”; RBINS.

Remarks

New junior synonym of M. ornatus ( Duponchel, 1825) ( Fig. 14A , see above).

Figures

Fig. 27. Lacordaire specimens.A–B, D–F. Primary types (dorsal, labels).A–A’. Lectotype ofMycotretus bistrigatus Lacordaire, 1842. B–B’. Lectotype of M. clitelliger Lacordaire, 1842. C–C’. Specimen of M. coccineus (Lacordaire, 1842) from the Crotch collection (UMZC, United Kingdom) (current combination Mycomystes coccineus (Lacordaire)]. D–D’. Lectotype of M. coelestinus Lacordaire, 1842. E–E’. Lectotype of M. cognatus Lacordaire, 1842. F–F’. Lectotype of M. cyanopterus Lacordaire, 1842. Scale bars = 1 mm.

Fig. 14. A–C, E–F. Primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Lectotype of Erotylus ornatus Duponchel [currently Mycotretus ornatus (Duponchel)]. B–B’. Lectotype of E. maculosus Duponchel, 1825 [currently M. maculosus (Duponchel)]. C–C’. Lectotype of E. sanguineus Duponchel, 1825 [currently M. sanguineus (Duponchel)]. D–D’. Topotype of M. unicolor Fauvel, 1860 from RBINS (Belgium) [synonym of Mycomystes coccineus (Lacordaire, 1842)]. E–E’. Lectotype of M. aegrotus Gorham, 1888. F–F’. Lectotype of M. alternans Gorham, 1888. Scale bars = 1 mm.