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Mycotretus alternans Gorham 1888

  • 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

78. Mycotretus alternans Gorham, 1888

Mycotretus alternans Gorham, 1888: 57. Type locality: “ Panama, Bugaba”.

Mycotretus alternans – Kuhnt 1909: 75; 1911: 48. — Blackwelder 1945: 465. — Alvarenga 1994: 20.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated (Fig. 14F)

PANAMA • “B.C.A.,Col.,VII. Mycotretus [printed] \ Mycotretus alternans, Gr. [handwritten] \ Bugaba, Panama. Champion. [printed] \ Type [disc-shaped label, printed] \ LECTOTYPE Mycotretus alternans Gorham, 1888 [red label, printed]”; BMNH.

Other specimens examined

Paralectotypes

PANAMA • 1 ♂ (dissected); “ Bugaba, Panama. Champion. [printed] \ Mycotretus alternans [handwritten] \ B.C.A., Col., VII, Mycotretus [printed] \ PARALECTOTYPE Mycotretus alternans Gorham, 1888 [yellow label, printed]”; BMNH • 1 spec.; “ Bugaba, 800–1500 ft. Champion. [printed] \ Mycotretus alternans [handwritten] \ B.C.A., Col., VII, Mycotretus [printed] \ PARALECTOTYPE Mycotretus alternans Gorham, 1888 [yellow label, printed]”; BMNH.

Remarks

New junior synonym of M. dorsonotatus Lacordaire, 1842 (Fig. 28D, see below).

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 74-75, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.876.2149, http://zenodo.org/record/8095647

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
BMNH
Family
Erotylidae
Genus
Mycotretus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Gorham
Species
alternans
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype , paralectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Mycotretus alternans Gorham, 1888 sec. Pecci-Maddalena, Lopes-Andrade & Skelley, 2023

References

  • Gorham H. S. 1888. Erotylidae, Endomychidae and Coccinellidae. In: Godman F. & Salvin O. (eds) Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta. Coleoptera. Vol. VII. [1887 - 1899]. R. H. Porter, London. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 730
  • 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
  • Lacordaire J. T. 1842. Monographie des Erotyliens, famille de l'ordre des Coleopteres. Roret, Paris. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 51458