Mycotretus tigrinus ( Olivier, 1792 )

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 : 168-170

224. Mycotretus tigrinus ( Olivier, 1792)

Erotylus tigrinus Olivier, 1792: 437 . Type locality: “ Surinam ”.

Erotylus conspersus Germar, 1824: 614 . Type locality: “Brasilia”.

Mycotretus multimaculatus Taschenberg, 1870: 197 ( Fig. 40F ). Type locality: “ Colombia ”.

Mycotretus leopardus Crotch, 1876: 451 . Type locality: “ Peru ”.

Mycotretus tigrinus pardalis Crotch, 1876: 451 [as a variety]. Type locality: “ Ecuador ” [apud Alvarenga 1994].

Erotylus tigrinus – Duponchel 1825: 51.

Mycotretus conspersus – Lacordaire 1842: 145 [synonym of M. tigrinus (Olivier) ]. — Alvarenga 1994: 37. — Pecci-Maddalena & Lopes-Andrade 2018b: 4.

Mycotretus tigrinus – Lacordaire 1842: 145. — Erichson 1847: 180. — Guérin-Méneville 1855: 610. — Fauvel 1860: 326. — Crotch 1876: 451. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3695. — Kirsch 1876: 101. — Kuhnt 1909: 74; 1911: 54. — Deelder 1942: 90. — Mader 1942: 173; 1951: 216. — Blackwelder 1945: 468. — Guérin 1948: 20. — Delkeskamp 1957: 99. — Alvarenga 1994: 37. — Skelley 1998b: 17. — McHugh & Chaboo 2015: 278. — Pecci-Maddalena & Lopes-Andrade 2018b: 1. — Pecci-Maddalena et al. 2021a: 955.

Mycotretus leopardus – Crotch 1876: 451 [synonym of M. tigrinus (Olivier) ]. — Gorham 1888: 49. — Kuhnt 1911: 54. — Alvarenga 1994: 37. — Pecci-Maddalena & Lopes-Andrade 2018b: 4 [attribution of the genus authorship to Crotch].

Mycotretus multimaculatus – Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3693. — Kuhnt 1909: 74; 1911: 51. — Blackwelder 1945: 467. — Mader 1942: 174; 1951: 216. — Alvarenga 1994: 29. — Pecci-Maddalena & Lopes-Andrade 2018b: 4 [synonym of M. tigrinus (Olivier) ].

Mycotretus tigrinus pardalis – Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3695. — Kuhnt 1909: 74; 1911: 54. — Mader 1942: 173; 1951: 216. — Blackwelder 1945: 468. — Alvarenga 1994: 37. — Pecci-Maddalena & Lopes-Andrade 2018b: 4 [synonym of M. tigrinus (Olivier) ].

Type specimen

Not located.

Other specimens examined

SURINAME • 1 spec. ( Fig. 39F ); “ Mycotretus tigrinus , Surinam Oliv [handwritten] \ Coll. R. I. Sc. N. B., Surinam, Coll. Chapuis [printed]”; See Pecci-Maddalena & Lopes-Andrade (2018b); RBINS .

Distribution

Northern to southern Neotropical region.

Remarks

See Pecci-Maddalena & Lopes-Andrade (2018b) for details concerning M. tigrinus . The name “ Mycotretus multipunctatus Dej. ”, listed and placed in synonymy with M. tigrinus in Dejean (1836), is a nomen nudum.

Figures

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.

Fig. 39. A–D, G. Primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Holotype of Mycotretus partitialis Mader, 1940. B–B’. Holotype of M. prioteloides Mader, 1942. C–C’. Holotype of M. tigrinoides Mader, 1942. D–D’. Holotype of M. tigripennis Mader, 1942. E–E’. Specimen of M. maculatus (Olivier, 1791) from the BMNH collection (UK). F–F’. Topotype of M. tigrinus (Olivier, 1791) from RBINS (Belgium). G–G’. Holotype of M. alvarengai Pecci-Maddalena & Lopes-Andrade, 2018. Scale bars: A–C, E–G = 1 mm; D = 2 mm.