Mycotretus floriger 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 : 131

166. Mycotretus floriger Lacordaire, 1842

Mycotretus floriger Lacordaire, 1842: 185 . Type locality: “Cayenne” [ French Guiana].

Mycotretus floriger – Crotch 1876: 456. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3692. — Kuhnt 1909: 71; 1911: 49. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 26. — Skelley 1998b: 17. — McHugh & Chaboo 2015: 278. — Pecci-Maddalena et al. 2021a: 955.

Primary type

Holotype ( Fig. 29F )

FRENCH GUIANA • “ D. Lacordaire [handwritten] \ Holotype Mycotretus floriger Lacordaire, 1842 [red label, handwritten]”; MRSN.

Other specimens examined

FRENCH GUIANA • 1 spec.; “ Cayen [handwritten] \ TYPE. [printed, crossed out] \ floriger C. Reiche [handwritten]”; UMZC • 1 spec.; “ Cayen [handwritten]”; UMZC • 1 ♂ (dissected); “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ SINOP 12º 31’S, 55º37’W, BR 163 Km 500 a 600, Mato Grosso, BRASIL, 350 m X. 1974, Alvarenga & Roppa col. [printed] \ DZUP 126040 [printed]”; DZUP .

Distribution

French Guiana, Central-West and North Brazil.

Figures

Fig. 29. Lacordaire specimens cont. A, C–F. Primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus dytiscoides Lacordaire, 1842. B–B’. Specimen of M. episcopalis Lacordaire, 1842 from the Alvarenga collection (MNRJ, Brazil). C–C’. Lectotype of M. fasciolatus Lacordaire, 1842. D–D’. Lectotype of M. figuratus Lacordaire, 1842. E–E’. Lectotype of M. flavomarginatus Lacordaire, 1842. F–F’. Holotype of M. floriger Lacordaire, 1842. Scale bars: A, C–F = 1 mm; B = 0.5 mm.