Mycotretus opalizans Mader, 1942

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 : 164-165

218. Mycotretus opalizans Mader, 1942

Mycotretus opalizans Mader, 1942: 175 , 200. Type locality: “ Peru: Chanchamayo”.

Mycotretus opalizans – Mader 1951: 223. — Alvarenga 1994: 31.

Primary type

Holotype ( Fig. 38E )

PERU • “ Holotypus [red label, printed] \ Schenkling det. [printed] \ Coll. Kraatz [printed] \ Peru [handwritten] \ pelliciens [handwritten] \ Keine Rede vom M. pelliciens . Type ist ganz anders. [handwritten, ‘ M. pelliciens not relevant, the type is completely different’] \ Mycotretus opalizans sp. nov. Det. Mader [handwritten]”; SDEI.

Distribution

Peru.

Remarks

Mycotretus opalizans Mader, 1942 is morphologically similar to M. opalescens Crotch ( Fig. 8F ) and they may be synonymized in the future. At the moment we do not have any specimen phenotypically similar to M. opalizans , and therefore we prefer not to take any taxonomic acts.

Figures

Fig. 38. A–B, D–F. Mader primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Holotype of Mycotretus antesignatus Mader, 1942 [= Mycolybas antesignatus (Mader) comv. nov.]. B–B’. Holotype of M. cunctans Mader, 1942. C–C’. M. quadripunctatus ab. luteobifasciatus Mader, 1942 (invalid name). D–D’. Holotype of M. major Mader, 1955. E–E’. Holotype of M. opalizans Mader, 1942. F–F’. M. opalizans ab. posticenigrum Mader, 1942 (invalid name). Scale bars: A, C–F = 1 mm; B = 2 mm.

Fig. 8. Crotch primary types (dorsal, labels) cont. A–A’. Lectotype of Mycotretus mycetophagoides erythrocerus Crotch, 1876. B–B’. Lectotype of M. mycetophiloides Crotch, 1876;. C–C’. Lectotype of M. mycetophiloides careus Crotch, 1876. D–D’. Lectotype of M. nigrotinctus Crotch, 1876. E–E’. Lectotype of M. nitescens Crotch, 1876. F–F’. Lectotype of M. opalescens Crotch, 1876. Scale bars = 1 mm.