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Mycotretus pebasensis 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

44. Mycotretus pebasensis Crotch, 1876

Mycotretus pebasensis Crotch, 1876: 439. Type locality: “Pebas” [Peru].

Mycotretus pebasensis – Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3692. — Kuhnt 1909: 76; 1911: 52. — Mader 1942: 175; 1951: 223. — Blackwelder 1945: 467. — Alvarenga 1994: 32. — Skelley 1998b: 15. — McHugh & Chaboo 2015: 278.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated (Fig. 9C)

PERU • “TYPE [blue label, printed] \ TYPE. [printed], Pebasensis Pebas [handwritten] \ LECTOTYPE [printed], Mycotretus pebasensis Crotch, 1876 [red label, handwritten]”; UMZC.

Other specimens examined

BRAZIL • 1 ♂ (dissected); “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ Homeotipo [red label, printed] \ Comparado com tipo [printed] Mycotretus pebasensis Crotch, 1876 [handwritten] M. Alvarenga det. 1971 [printed] \ TABATINGA [printed], Amazonas Brasil [printed] iv. 1958 [handwritten] E. S. Lima [printed] \ 2029 [printed] \ DZUP 136162 [printed]”; DZUP • 1 ♂ (dissected); “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ TABATINGA [printed], Amazonas Brasil [printed] v. 1957 [handwritten] E. Sousa Lima [printed] \ 2030 [printed] \ Mycotretus 033 [handwritten] \ DZUP 136164 [printed]”; DZUP • 1 ♀ (dissected); “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ TABATINGA [printed], Amazonas Brasil [printed] v. 1957 [handwritten] E. Sousa Lima [printed] \ 2031 [printed] \ Mycotretus 033 [handwritten] \ DZUP 136163 [printed]”; DZUP.

Distribution

Peru, North Brazil.

Remarks

The dissected female of M. pebasensis has the pronotal black spot slightly “split”, resembling that of M. separandus (Fig. 10F). In fact, M. pebasensis, M. separandus, M. egae (Fig. 6C), M. decoratus (Fig. 13B) and M. hilaris (Fig. 31B) are morphologically similar, based on their colour pattern, body shape and morphology of male genitalia. However, we noted a few differences in the sclerotization of the penile flagellum and flagellar head morphology. These species may be synonyms, a decision that is not possible to take before examining more specimens and determining whether their variations are diagnostic for keeping species separated or constitute infraspecific variations of a single species.

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 46-48, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.876.2149, http://zenodo.org/record/8095647

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
DZUP , UMZC
Material sample ID
DZUP 136162 , DZUP 136163 , DZUP 136164
Scientific name authorship
Crotch
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Erotylidae
Genus
Mycotretus
Species
pebasensis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Mycotretus pebasensis 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
  • Gemminger M. & Harold E. 1876. Familia LXX. Erotylidae. In: Gemminger M. & Harold E. (eds) Catalogus Coleopterorum hucusque descriptorum synonymicus et systematicus. Vol. 10. Gummi, Monachii [Munich]. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 9089
  • 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].
  • Mader L. 1942. Erotylidae (Col.). In: Titschack (ed.) Beitrage zur Fauna Perus. G. Fischer, Hamburg.
  • Mader L. 1951. Die Erotyliden von Peru (Col.). Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey Tutzing bei Munchen 2 (1): 197 - 225.
  • 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.
  • McHugh J. V. & Chaboo C. S. 2015. Beetles (Coleoptera) of Peru: a survey of the families. Erotylidae Latreille, 1802. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 88 (2): 274 - 282. https: // doi. org / 10.2317 / kent- 88 - 02 - 274 - 282.1