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Mycotretus brasilianus Crotch 1876

  • 1. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Departamento de Biologia Geral, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil. & Laboratório Regional de Pesquisa Em Sanidade Apícola (LASA), Secretaria de Agricultura e Abastecimento, Instituto Biológico, Agência Paulista de Tecnologia Dos Agronegócios (APTA), São Paulo, Brazil. & Laboratório de Sistemática e Biologia de Coleoptera, Departamento de Biologia Animal, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
  • 2. Laboratório de Sistemática e Biologia de Coleoptera, Departamento de Biologia Animal, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
  • 3. Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Florida Department of Agriculture - DPI, P. O. Box 147100, Gainesville, FL 32614 - 7100, USA.

Description

17. Mycotretus brasilianus Crotch, 1876

Mycotretus brasilianus Crotch, 1876: 442. Type locality: “ Brazil ”.

Mycotretus brasilianus – Fleutiaux 1886: 223. — Kuhnt 1909: 74; 1911: 48. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 21. — Skelley 1998b: 15.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated (Fig. 4E)

BRAZIL • “TYPE [blue label, printed] \ TYPE [printed], brasilianus Bras. Bates [handwritten] \ LECTOTYPE [printed], Mycotretus brasilianus Crotch, 1876 [red label, handwritten]”; UMZC.

Other specimens examined

BRAZIL • 1 ♀ (dissected); “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ Homeotipo [red label, printed] \ REPRÊSA RIO GRANDE, Guanabara BRASIL [printed] XI. 1966 [handwritten] F.M. Oliveira [printed] \ Comparado com tipo [printed] Mycotretus brasilianus Crotch, 1876 [handwritten] M. Alvarenga det. 1971 [printed] \ 1934 [printed] \ DZUP 136225 [printed]”; DZUP • 1 ♀ (dissected); “ Montenegro, RS, II/ VIII/77, A. Lise [handwritten], leg. [printed] \ Col MCN 23349 [?] [handwritten] \ M. brasilianus [handwritten]”; MCNZ • 1 ♀ (dissected); “ Triunfo, RS (Copesul), 6.I.2005, L. Schmidt col. [printed] \ Col. MCN 232833 [printed]”; MCNZ • 1 ♀ (dissected); “ S Fco de Assis, RS, 25.IV.2009, I.Heydrich [printed] \ Col. MCN 238433 [printed]”; MCNZ.

Distribution

Southeast Brazil (Alvarenga 1994), South Brazil.

Remarks

Mycotretus brasilianus resembles M. magus (Fig. 32D) in the colour pattern of the pronotum, the serrate elytral bands and in having a hexagonal black spot on the head, but M. magus is slightly more elongated than M. brasilianus. It is possible these species are closely related or even conspecific. However, we studied only females and, therefore, we prefer not to synonymize them at this moment. The body coloration of M. brasilianus also resembles that of M. chilensis (Fig. 4F), but there is no cephalic spot or mark in the latter.

Notes

Published as part of 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, pp. 1-182 in European Journal of Taxonomy 876 (1) on pages 27-28, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.876.2149, http://zenodo.org/record/8095647

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
DZUP , MCNZ , UMZC
Material sample ID
DZUP 136225 , MCN 232833 , MCN 23349 , MCN 238433
Event date
2005-01-06 , 2009-04-25
Verbatim event date
2005-01-06 , 2009-04-25
Scientific name authorship
Crotch
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Erotylidae
Genus
Mycotretus
Species
brasilianus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Mycotretus brasilianus Crotch, 1876 sec. Pecci-Maddalena, Lopes-Andrade & Skelley, 2023

References

  • Crotch G. R. 1876. A revision of the coleopterous family Erotylidae. Cistula Entomologica 1: 377 - 572. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 9222
  • Fleutiaux E. 1886. Supplement au catalogue des coleopteres de MM. Gemminger & De Harold (Languriides et Erotylides). Annales de la Societe entomologique de Belgique 30: 216 - 224.
  • Kuhnt P. 1909. Coleoptera, fam. Erotylidae, subfam. Erotylinae. In: Wytsman P. A. G. (ed.) Genera Insectorum 88. Available from https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 43211062 [accessed 14 Feb. 2023].
  • Kuhnt P. 1911. Erotylidae. In: Junk W. & Schenkling S. (eds) Coleopterorum Catalogus Pars 34. W. Junk, Berlin. Available from https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 59206376 [accessed 14 Apr. 2023].
  • Blackwelder R. E. 1945. Checklist of the coleopterous insects of Mexico, Central America, the West Indies and South America. Part 3. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 185 (3): 343 - 550. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 03629236.185.3
  • Alvarenga M. 1994. Catalogo dos Erotylidae (Coleoptera) Neotropicais. Revista brasileira de Zoologia 11 (1): 1 - 175. https: // doi. org / 10.1590 / S 0101 - 81751994000100001
  • Skelley P. E. 1998 b. A catalogue of the Crotch collection of Erotylidae (Coleoptera). Annales Zoologici 48 (1 / 2): 1 - 44.