Mycotretus gemmula 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 : 132

Mycotretus gemmula Lacordaire, 1842

Mycotretus gemmula Lacordaire, 1842: 181 [description] ( Fig. 30B ). Type locality: “ Colombie ”.

Mycotretus gemmula – Crotch 1876: 448. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3693. — Kuhnt 1909: 73; 1911: 50. — Mader 1942: 173; 1951: 214. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 26. — Skelley 1998b: 16. — McHugh & Chaboo 2015: 278. — Pecci-Maddalena et al. 2021b: 3078 [synonym of Mycomystes apicalis ].

Primary type

Holotype ( Fig. 30B )

COLOMBIA • “Colombie [handwritten] \ Gemmula Lac [handwritten] \ Type [handwritten] \ Ex-Musaeo Mniszech [printed] \ HOLOTYPE Mycotretus gemmula Lacordaire, 1842 [red label, handwritten]”; MNHN.

Remarks

Junior synonym of Mycomystes apicalis ( Lacordaire, 1842) ( Fig. 26E , see Pecci-Maddalena et al. 2021b).

Figures

Fig. 30. Lacordaire primary types (dorsal, labels) cont. A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus fuscitarsis Lacordaire, 1842 [current combination Mycomystes fuscitarsis (Lacordaire)]. B–B’. Holotype of M. gemmula Lacordaire, 1842 [synonym of Mycomystes apicalis (Lacordaire)]. C–C’. Lectotype of M. gentilis Lacordaire, 1842 [synonym of Mycomystes apicalis (Lacordaire, 1842)]. D–D’. Lectotype of M. godarti Lacordaire, 1842. E–E’. Specimen of M. graniformis Lacordaire, 1842 from MRSN. F–F’. Lectotype of M. graphoderus Lacordaire, 1842. Scale bars = 1 mm.

Fig. 26. A–B, D–F. Primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus virgatus Kuhnt, 1910 [= Iphiclus virgatus (Kuhnt), comb. nov.]. B–B’. Holotype of M. ziczac ziczac Kuhnt, 1910. C–C’. Specimen of M. aestuans Lacordaire, 1842 from the Alvarenga collection (MNRJ, Brazil). D–D’. Lectotype of M. ambulator Lacordaire, 1842. E–E’. Lectotype of M. apicalis Lacordaire, 1842 [current combinationMycomystes apicalis (Lacordaire)]. F–F’. Lectotype of M. argus Lacordaire, 1842. Scale bars: A = see Material and methods; B–F = 1 mm.