Mycotretus chilensis 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 : 28

18. Mycotretus chilensis Crotch, 1876

Mycotretus chilensis Crotch, 1876: 454 . Type locality: “ Chili ” [= Chile, possibly mislabelled, see Pecci-Maddalena & Lopes-Andrade 2017: 147 ].

Mycotretus bicinctus Guérin, 1949a: 236 ( Fig. 21E ). Type locality: “Parque da Cantareira, São Paulo ” [Parque da Cantareira, São Paulo, Southeast Brazil].

Mycotretus chilensis – Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3692. — Kuhnt 1909: 75; 1911: 48. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Guérin 1952: 182. — Alvarenga 1994: 22. — Skelley 1998b: 17. — Skelley & Cekalovic 2001: 221. — Pecci-Maddalena & Lopes-Andrade 2017: 147 .

Mycotretus bicinctus – Alvarenga 1994: 21. — Campaner et al. 2008: 242. — Pecci-Maddalena & Lopes-Andrade 2017: 147 [junior synonym].

Primary type

Lectotype ( Fig. 4F )

CHILE • “TYPE [blue label, printed] \ TYPE [printed], chilensis Reiche [handwritten] \ LECTOTYPE [printed], Mycotretus chilensis Crotch, 1876 [red label, handwritten]”; UMZC.

Other specimens examined

See Pecci-Maddalena & Lopes-Andrade (2017).

Distribution

South and Southeast Brazil and a doubtful record from an unknown locality in Chile ( Pecci-Maddalena & Lopes-Andrade 2017).

Figures

Fig. 21. Primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Holotype of Mycotretus ternotatus Gorham, 1888. B–B’. Holotype of M. tibialis Gorham, 1888. C–C’. Lectotype of M. vittatus Gorham, 1888. D–D’. Holotype of M. anchoralis Guérin, 1956. E–E’. Holotype of M. bicinctus Guérin, 1949. F–F’. Holotype of M. monrosi Guérin, 1949. Scale bars: A–C, F = 1 mm; D–E = 0.5 mm.

Fig. 4. Crotch primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus adalioides Crotch, 1876. B–B’. Lectotype of M. balteatus Crotch, 1876. C–C’. Lectotype of M. basalis Crotch, 1876. D–D’. Lectotype of M. bisseptemguttatus Crotch, 1876. E–E’. Lectotype of M. brasilianus Crotch, 1876. F–F’. Lectotype of M. chilensis Crotch, 1876. Scale bars = 1 mm.