Mycotretus multimaculatus Taschenberg, 1870

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 : 174

229. Mycotretus multimaculatus Taschenberg, 1870

Mycotretus multimaculatus Taschenberg, 1870: 197 ( Fig. 40F ). Type locality: “ Colombia ”.

Mycotretus multimaculatus – Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3693. — Kuhnt 1909: 74; 1911: 51. — Blackwelder 1945: 467. — Mader 1942: 174; 1951: 216. — Alvarenga 1994: 29. — Pecci-Maddalena & Lopes-Andrade 2018b: 4 [synonym of M. tigrinus (Olivier) ].

Primary type

Lectotype ( Fig. 40F )

COLOMBIA • “ multimaculatus, Zeitschr. 1870 . Colomb. Wallis [green label, handwritten, box label] \ LECTOTYPE Mycotretus multimaculatus Taschenberg, 1870 det. I. Pecci-Maddalena 2017 [red label, printed]”; ZNS.

Remarks

Junior synonym of M. tigrinus ( Olivier, 1792) ( Fig. 39F , see above).

Figures

Fig. 40. Taschenberg specimens. B–D, F. Primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Specimen of Mycotretus bicolor Taschenberg, 1870 from Alvarenga collection (MNRJ, Brazil). B–B’. Lectotype of M. coccinelloides Taschenberg, 1870 [synonym of Mycomystes apicalis (Lacordaire, 1842)]. C–C’. Lectotype of M. dimidiatus Taschenberg, 1870. D–D’. Lectotype of M. discoidalis Taschenberg, 1870 [synonym of Mycomystes melanophthalmus (Duponchel, 1825)]. E–E’. Specimen of M. dispar Taschenberg, 1870 from the Alvarenga collection (MNRJ, Brazil).F–F’. Lectotype ofM. multimaculatus Taschenberg, 1870. Scale bars: A = 0.5 mm; E = 1 mm; B–D, F = see Material and methods.

Fig. 39. A–D, G. Primary types (dorsal, labels). A–A’. Holotype of Mycotretus partitialis Mader, 1940. B–B’. Holotype of M. prioteloides Mader, 1942. C–C’. Holotype of M. tigrinoides Mader, 1942. D–D’. Holotype of M. tigripennis Mader, 1942. E–E’. Specimen of M. maculatus (Olivier, 1791) from the BMNH collection (UK). F–F’. Topotype of M. tigrinus (Olivier, 1791) from RBINS (Belgium). G–G’. Holotype of M. alvarengai Pecci-Maddalena & Lopes-Andrade, 2018. Scale bars: A–C, E–G = 1 mm; D = 2 mm.