Mycotretus guatemalae 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 : 37-38

29. Mycotretus guatemalae Crotch, 1876

Mycotretus guatemalae Crotch, 1876: 441 . Type locality: “ Guatemala ”.

Mycotretus guatemalae – Gorham 1888: 55. — Kuhnt 1909: 72; 1911: 50. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 27. — Skelley 1998b: 15.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated ( Fig. 7A )

GUATEMALA • “TYPE. [printed], guatemala Shepp. [handwritten] \ TYPE [blue label, printed] \ LECTOTYPE [printed], Mycotretus guatemalae Crotch, 1876 [red label, handwritten]”; UMZC.

Other specimens examined

GUATEMALA • 1 ♀ (dissected); “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ Homeotipo [red label, printed] \ S. Salvador , El Salvador, 24.vi.1960, J. Bechyné [handwritten] \ Mycotretus elegans Gorham, 1888 [handwritten, misidentification] M.Alvarenga det. [printed] 1971 [handwritten] \ 1835-A [handwritten]”; MNRJ • 1 ♀ (dissected); “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ Rio Caurimare , Caracas, 900m, 8.ix.1963, Boroon [handwritten] \ 1826 [printed] \ Mycotretus 203 [handwritten] \ M. guatemalae ? [handwritten]”; MNRJ • 1 ♀ (dissected); “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ S. Salvador , El Salvador, 24.vi.1960, J. Bechyné [handwritten] \ DZUP 132850 [printed]”; DZUP .

Distribution

Guatemala, El Salvador, Venezuela.

Figures

Fig. 7. Crotch primary types (dorsal, labels) cont. A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus guatemalae Crotch, 1876. B–B’. Lectotype of M. illustris Crotch, 1876. C–C’. Lectotype of M. laeviventris Crotch, 1876. D–D’. Lectotype of M. lissomoides Crotch, 1876. E–E’. Lectotype of M. mutabilis Crotch, 1876. F–F’. Lectotype of M. mycetophagoides Crotch, 1876. Scale bars = 1 mm.