Mycotretus aegrotus Gorham, 1888

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 : 74

77. Mycotretus aegrotus Gorham, 1888

Mycotretus aegrotus Gorham, 1888: 60 . Type locality: “ Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu” [province of Cartago, Costa Rica].

Mycotretus aegrotus – Kuhnt 1909: 73; 1911: 47. — Blackwelder 1945: 465. — Alvarenga 1994: 20.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated ( Fig. 14E )

COSTA RICA • “B.C.A.,Col.,VII. Mycotretus [printed] \ Irazu , 6, 7000 ft., H. Rogers. [printed] \ aegrotus G. [handwritten] \ Type [disc-shaped label, printed] \ LECTOTYPE Mycotretus aegrotus Gorham, 1888 [red label, printed]”; BMNH.

Other specimens examined

Paralectotypes

COSTA RICA • 1 spec.; “Irazu, Costa Rica, Rogers [handwritten] \ aegrotus, G. [handwritten] \ B.C.A.,Col.,VII, Mycotretus [printed] \ PARALECTOTYPE Mycotretus aegrotus Gorham, 1888 [yellow label, printed]”; BMNH • 1 spec.; “ Irazu, Costa Rica, Rogers [handwritten] \ M. aegrotus , G. [handwritten] \ B.C.A.,Col.,VII, Mycotretus [printed] \ PARALECTOTYPE Mycotretus aegrotus Gorham, 1888 [yellow label, printed]”; BMNH .

Distribution

Costa Rica.

Remarks

According to Gorham (1888), “Of six examples obtained, three are rather immature”. We have located only three syntypes in BMNH, including the one designated as the lectotype, which indeed also appears teneral.

Figures

Fig. 14. A–C, E–F. Primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Lectotype of Erotylus ornatus Duponchel [currently Mycotretus ornatus (Duponchel)]. B–B’. Lectotype of E. maculosus Duponchel, 1825 [currently M. maculosus (Duponchel)]. C–C’. Lectotype of E. sanguineus Duponchel, 1825 [currently M. sanguineus (Duponchel)]. D–D’. Topotype of M. unicolor Fauvel, 1860 from RBINS (Belgium) [synonym of Mycomystes coccineus (Lacordaire, 1842)]. E–E’. Lectotype of M. aegrotus Gorham, 1888. F–F’. Lectotype of M. alternans Gorham, 1888. Scale bars = 1 mm.