Mycotretus fidelis Delkeskamp, 1939

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 : 58-59

62. Mycotretus fidelis Delkeskamp, 1939

Brachysphaenus (Barytopus) parallelus Kuhnt, 1909: 30 [nec Crotch, 1876]. Type locality: “ Peru ”.

Mycotretus fidelis Delkeskamp, 1939: 27 [replacement name].

Brachysphaenus (Barytopus) parallelus – Kuhnt 1911: 18. — Mader 1938: 17; 1942: 171. — Blackwelder 1945: 459.

Mycotretus parallelus – Delkeskamp 1939: 27. — Alvarenga 1994: 25.

Mycotretus fidelis – Alvarenga 1994: 25. — McHugh & Chaboo 2015: 278.

Primary type

Holotype ( Fig. 12C )

PERU • “79163 [printed] \ Perum [?] Khimia [?] [green label, handwritten] \ Coll. Thieme [printed] \ Type [red label, printed] \ Barytopus parallelus Kuhnt [handwritten] \ HOLOTYPE, Brachysphaenus (Barytopus) parallelus Kuhnt, 1909 , labelled by I. Pecci-Maddalena 2017 [red label, printed] \ Mycotretus fidelis Delkeskamp, 1939 , det. I. Pecci-Maddalena, 2017 [printed]”; MFN.

Distribution

Unknown locality in Peru.

Remarks

Mycotretus fidelis was described in Brachysphoenus Lacordaire (currently Iphiclus Chevrolat , apud Alvarenga 1994). Delkeskamp (1939) noted it belonged to Mycotretus and proposed the replacement name “ M. fidelis ” to resolve the homonymy with M. parallelus Crotch ( Fig. 9B ).

Figures

Fig. 12. Primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus xanthomelas Crotch, 1876. B–B’. Holotype of M. ornatus partitialis Deelder, 1942. C–C’. Holotype of M. fidelis Deskeskamp, 1939 [= Brachysphaenus (Barytopus) parallelus Kuhnt, 1909]. D–D’. Holotype of M. sexoculatus chaparensis Delkeskamp, 1957.E–E’. Holotype ofM. ziczac serenus Delkeskamp, 1957. F–F’. Holotype of M. zischkai Delkeskamp, 1957. Scale bars: A, C, E = 1 mm; B, D, F = see Remarks.

Fig. 9. Crotch primary types (dorsal, labels) cont. A–A’. Lectotype of Ischyrus pallidior Crotch, 1876 [currently Mycotretus pallidior (Crotch)]. B–B’. Lectotype of Mycotretus parallelus Crotch, 1876. C–C’. Lectotype of M. pebasensis Crotch, 1876. D–D’. Lectotype of M. peruae Crotch, 1876. E–E’. Lectotype of M. psylloboroides Crotch, 1876. F–F’. Lectotype of M. quadripunctatus Crotch, 1876. Scale bars = 1 mm.