Mycotretus sexoculatus sexoculatus 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 : 157-159

206. Mycotretus sexoculatus sexoculatus Lacordaire, 1842

Mycotretus sexoculatus sexoculatus Lacordaire, 1842: 165 . Type locality: “ Colombie ”.

Mycotretus sexoculatus sexoculatus – Crotch 1876: 439. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3695. — Kuhnt 1909: 74; 1911: 53. — Blackwelder 1945: 467. — Alvarenga 1994: 35. — Skelley 1998b: 15.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated ( Fig. 36F )

COLOMBIA • “TYPE [blue label, printed] \ TYPE. [printed] 6-oculatus R [handwritten] \ Nova Gr [handwritten] \ LECTOTYPE [printed] Mycotretus sexoculatus Lacordaire, 1842 [red label, handwritten]”; UMCZ.

Other specimens examined

BRAZIL • 1 ♀ (dissected); “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ Homeotipo [printed] \ CORCOVADO , Guanabara BRASIL [printed] XI. 1967 [handwritten], Alvarenga & Seabra [printed] \ Comparado c/ tipo, Mycotretus sexoculatus Lac. 1842 [handwritten] M. Alvarenga det. 1971 [printed]”; MNRJ • 1 ♀ (dissected); “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ REPRÊSA RIO GRANDE , Guanabara BRASIL [printed] XII. 1977 [handwritten] F.M. Oliveira [printed] \ Mycotretus sexoculatus sexoculatus Lac. 1842 [handwritten] M. Alvarenga det. [printed] 1984 [handwritten]”; MNRJ • 1 ♂ (dissected); “Coleção M.Alvarenga [printed] \ REPRÊSA RIO GRANDE , Guanabara BRASIL [printed] IV. 1966 [handwritten] F.M. Oliveira [printed] \ MALAISE [handwritten] \ mycotretus 020 [handwritten]”; MNRJ .

Distribution

Colombia, Southeast Brazil.

Figures

Fig. 36. Lacordaire specimens cont. C–F. Primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Specimen of Mycotretus rufilabris (Lacordaire, 1842) from the Alvarenga collection (MNRJ, Brazil). B–B’. Specimen of M. sannio Lacordaire, 1842 from the Crotch collection (UMZC, UK). C–C’. Lectotype of M. savignyi Lacordaire, 1842. D–D’. Lectotype of M. scalaris Lacordaire, 1842. E–E’. Lectotype of M. scitulus Lacordaire, 1842. F–F’. Lectotype of M. sexoculatus sexoculatus Lacordaire, 1842. Scale bars: A = 0.5 mm; B–F = 1 mm.