Mycotretus monrosi Guérin, 1949

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 : 100

120. Mycotretus monrosi Guérin, 1949

Mycotretus monrosi Guérin, 1949b: 589 . Type locality: “Piletas, Salta ” [Department of Salta, Argentina].

Mycotretus monrosi – Alvarenga 1994: 29. — Pecci-Maddalena & Lopes-Andrade 2017: 148.

Primary type

Holotype ( Fig. 21F )

ARGENTINA • “ Piletas–Salta, 26 JUL–3 AG. 944, R. Colbach. [handwritten] \ HOLOTIPO [red label, printed] \ Mycotretus monrosi J. Guérin, J. Guerin det. 949 [handwritten] \ Mycotretus monrosi J. Guerin [handwritten] J. Guerin. det. 194[printed]9[handwritten] \ COLECCION, INST – FUND. M. LILLO (4000) – S.M. TUCUMAN, TUCUMAN – ARGENTINA [printed] \ TCOL190 [printed]”; MZSP.

Other specimens examined

Paratype

BRAZIL • 1 ♂ (dissected); “PARATIPO [printed] \ Coll. J. Guerin. S. Paulo. Brasil. [printed] 18410 [handwritten] \ Piletas, Prov. Salta, Argentina, 8.944 [handwritten] \ Mycotretus monrosi J. Guer [handwritten] J. Guerin. det. 194[printed]9[handwritten]”; MZSP.

Remarks

New junior synonym of M. bicolor Taschenberg, 1870 ( Fig. 40A , see below).

Figures

Fig. 21. Primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Holotype of Mycotretus ternotatus Gorham, 1888. B–B’. Holotype of M. tibialis Gorham, 1888. C–C’. Lectotype of M. vittatus Gorham, 1888. D–D’. Holotype of M. anchoralis Guérin, 1956. E–E’. Holotype of M. bicinctus Guérin, 1949. F–F’. Holotype of M. monrosi Guérin, 1949. Scale bars: A–C, F = 1 mm; D–E = 0.5 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.