Mycotretus palmiphilus 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 : 145

189. Mycotretus palmiphilus Lacordaire, 1842

Mycotretus palmiphilus Lacordaire, 1842: 165 . Type locality: “Cayenne” [ French Guiana].

Mycotretus palmiphilus – Crotch 1876: 439. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3694. — Kuhnt 1909: 71; 1911: 52. — Blackwelder 1945: 467. — Alvarenga 1994. — 32; Skelley 1998b: 15.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated ( Fig. 34 A )

FRENCH GUIANA • “ D. Lacordaire [handwritten] \ LECTOTYPE [printed] Mycotretus palmiphilus Lacordaire, 1842 [red label, handwritten]”; MRSN.

Other specimens examined

FRENCH GUIANA • 1 spec.; “Cayenne [handwritten] \ Palmiphilus Lac. [handwritten] \ Type [handwritten] \ Ex-Musaeo Mniszech [printed]”; MNHN • 1 spec.; “ Cayen [handwritten] \ TYPE. [printed, crossed out] palmiphilus coll Reiche [handwritten] \ PARALECTOTYPE [printed] Mycotretus palmiphilus Lacordaire, 1842 [yellow label, handwritten]”; UMCZ .

Distribution

French Guiana, North Brazil.

Remarks

We examined a specimen of M. palmiphilus deposited in the MNHN and mistakenly labeled it as “ lectotype ”. Subsequently we decided that it would be better to designate the specimen from the MRSN ( Fig. 34A ) as the lectotype, since Lacordaire (1842) did not mention the Dupont collection in his description (see Material and Methods, comments about type depositories). In such cases, the specimens used by Lacordaire presumably belong to the Brême collection (MRSN). Mycotretus palmiphilus resembles M. argus Lacordaire, 1842 ( Fig. 26F ), but we did not have a sufficient number of specimens of either species for comparison, and we prefer not to propose a new synonym here.

Figures

Fig. 34. Lacordaire primary types (dorsal, labels) cont. A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus palmiphilus Lacordaire, 1842. B–B’. Lectotype of M. partitus Lacordaire, 1842. C–C’. Lectotype of M. pecari Lacordaire, 1842. D–D’. Lectotype of M. polyophthalmus Lacordaire, 1842. E–E’. Lectotype of M. psittacus Lacordaire, 1842. F–F’. Holotype of M. pulchellus Lacordaire, 1842. Scale bars: A–B, E–F = 1 mm; C–D = see Material and methods.

Fig. 26. A–B, D–F. Primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus virgatus Kuhnt, 1910 [= Iphiclus virgatus (Kuhnt), comb. nov.]. B–B’. Holotype of M. ziczac ziczac Kuhnt, 1910. C–C’. Specimen of M. aestuans Lacordaire, 1842 from the Alvarenga collection (MNRJ, Brazil). D–D’. Lectotype of M. ambulator Lacordaire, 1842. E–E’. Lectotype of M. apicalis Lacordaire, 1842 [current combinationMycomystes apicalis (Lacordaire)]. F–F’. Lectotype of M. argus Lacordaire, 1842. Scale bars: A = see Material and methods; B–F = 1 mm.