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Mycotretus erraticus Gorham 1898

  • 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

91. Mycotretus erraticus Gorham, 1898

Mycotretus erraticus Gorham, 1888: 254. Type locality: “ Mexico, Chilpancingo in Guerrero 4600 feet ” [state of Guerrero, Mexico].

Mycotretus erraticus – Kuhnt 1909: 73; 1911: 49. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 25.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated (Fig. 17A)

MEXICO • “B.C.A.,Col.,VII. Mycotretus [printed] \ Mycotretus erraticus, Gorh. [handwritten] \ Chilpancingo, Guerrero, 4600 ft. July. H.H. Smith. [printed] \ Type [disc-shaped label, printed] \ LECTOTYPE Mycotretus erraticus Gorham, 1888 [printed] (left) [red label, handwritten]”; BMNH.

Other specimens examined

Paralectotype

MEXICO • “B.C.A.,Col.,VII. Mycotretus [printed] \ Mycotretus erraticus, Gorh. [handwritten] \ Chilpancingo, Guerrero, 4600 ft. July. H.H. Smith. [printed] \ Type [disc-shaped label, printed] \ PARALECTOTYPE Mycotretus erraticus Gorham, 1888 [printed] (right) [yellow label, handwritten]”; BMNH

Distribution

Mexico.

Remarks

The lectotype and paralectotype are mounted on the same card on the left and right sides, respectively. Only the lectotype is shown here (Fig. 17A).

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

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
BMNH
Scientific name authorship
Gorham
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Erotylidae
Genus
Mycotretus
Species
erraticus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype , paralectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Mycotretus erraticus Gorham, 1898 sec. Pecci-Maddalena, Lopes-Andrade & Skelley, 2023

References

  • Gorham H. S. 1898. Erotylidae, Endomychidae and Coccinellidae. Biologia Centrali-Americana Coleoptera. Supplement 7: 253 - 257.
  • 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