Mycotretus limbatus ( 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 : 139

178. Mycotretus limbatus ( Lacordaire, 1842)

Tritoma limbata Lacordaire, 1842: 223 . Type locality: “ Brésil ”.

Mycotretus limbatus – Crotch 1876: 458. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3693. — Kuhnt 1909: 74; 1911: 50. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 28. — Skelley 1998b: 18. — Pecci-Maddalena et al. 2021b: 3099.

Type specimen

Not located.

Other specimens examined

BRAZIL • 1 spec. ( Fig. 32B ); “TYPE. [printed, crossed out] \ Limbata c. typ. Turin , Ega Bates [handwritten]”; UMZC • 1 spec.; “ Bates ”; UMZC • 1 ♂ (dissected); “Brasilien, Nova Teutonia, 27º11’B, 52º23’L, Fritz Plaumann [printed], 20. 12. [handwritten] 193[printed]7[handwritten] \ DZUP 135158 [printed]”; DZUP .

Distribution

Brazil.

Remarks

The label data of the specimen from the UMZC, shown in Fig. 32 B’, state that it was compared with the type that was already in Turin (MRSN) by the time Crotch obtained his specimen. In fact, we observed one unlabeled specimen of M. limbatus in the MRSN, but it must be examined again to confirm that it was the specimen used by Lacordaire before designating it as a lectotype.

Figures

Fig. 32. Lacordaire specimens cont. A, C–F. Primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus leprosus Lacordaire, 1842. B–B’. Specimen of M. limbatus (Lacordaire, 1842) from the Crotch collection (UMZC, UK). C–C’. Lectotype of M. luteipes Lacordaire, 1842. D–D’. Lectotype of M. magus Lacordaire, 1842. E–E’. Holotype of M. marginicollis Lacordaire, 1842. F–F’. Lectotype of M. melanopterus Lacordaire, 1842. Scale bars = 1 mm.