Mycotretus corallipennis Crotch, 1876

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 : 31

Mycotretus corallipennis Crotch, 1876

Mycotretus corallipennis Crotch, 1876: 448 . Type locality: “ Venezuela, N. Granada.” [The old Viceroyalty of New Granada, which at various times included parts of Colombia, Panama, Ecuador and Venezuela].

Mycotretus corallipennis – Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3692. — Kuhnt 1909: 71; 1911: 48. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 22. — Skelley 1998b: 16. — Pecci-Maddalena et al. 2021b: 3078 [synonym of Mycomystes apicalis ].

Primary type

Lectotype ( Fig. 5C )

VENEZUELA • “ Nova Gr [green label, handwritten] \ LECTOTYPE [printed], Mycotretus corallipennis Crotch, 1876 [red label, handwritten]”; UMZC.

Other specimens examined

See Pecci-Maddalena et al. (2021b).

Distribution

Unknown locality in Venezuela.

Remarks

Synonym of Mycomystes apicalis ( Lacordaire, 1842) , see Pecci-Maddalena et al. (2021b).

Figures

Fig. 5. Crotch primary types (dorsal, labels) cont. A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus chontalesi Crotch, 1873. B–B’. Lectotype of M. cinctiger Crotch, 1876. C–C’. Lectotype of M. corallipennis Crotch, 1876 [synonym of Mycomystes apicalis (Lacordaire, 1842)]. D–D’. Lectotype of M. cordiger Crotch, 1876. E–E’. Lectotype of M. cruciger Crotch, 1876. F–F’. Lectotype of M. decorus Crotch, 1876. Scale bars = 1 mm.