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Mycotretus quadripunctatus 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

47. Mycotretus quadripunctatus Crotch, 1876

Mycotretus quadripunctatus Crotch, 1876: 450. Type locality: “N. Peru ” [Northern Peru, apud Alvarenga 1994].

Mycotretus quadripunctatus – Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3694. — Kuhnt 1909: 76; 1911: 52. — Mader 1942: 174; 1951: 219, 223. — Blackwelder 1945: 467. — Alvarenga 1994: 33. — Skelley 1998b: 17. — McHugh & Chaboo 2015: 278.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated (Fig. 9F)

PERU • “TYPE [blue label, printed] \ TYPE. [printed], 4-punctatus N. Peru. Bates [handwritten] \ LECTOTYPE [printed], Mycotretus quadripunctatus Crotch, 1876 [red label, handwritten]”; UMZC.

Distribution

Colombia, Ecuador, Peru.

Remarks

As pointed out by Skelley (1998b), and confirmed here, the lectotype lacks prothorax and head.

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 page 49, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.876.2149, http://zenodo.org/record/8095647

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
UMZC
Scientific name authorship
Crotch
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Erotylidae
Genus
Mycotretus
Species
quadripunctatus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Mycotretus quadripunctatus 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
  • Alvarenga M. 1994. Catalogo dos Erotylidae (Coleoptera) Neotropicais. Revista brasileira de Zoologia 11 (1): 1 - 175. https: // doi. org / 10.1590 / S 0101 - 81751994000100001
  • 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
  • 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