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Mycotretus seminiger Harold 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

125. Mycotretus seminiger Harold, 1876

Mycotretus dimidiatus Crotch, 1876: 444 [nec Taschenberg, 1870]. Type locality: “Ega” [= Tefé, in the state of Amazonas, North Brazil].

Mycotretus seminiger Harold, 1876: 174. Type locality: “Ega” [= Tefé, in the state of Amazonas, North Brazil].

Mycotretus dimidiatus – Alvarenga 1994: 35. — Skelley 1998b: 16.

Mycotretus seminiger – Alvarenga 1994: 35. — Skelley 1998b: 16.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated (Fig. 6B)

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

Other specimens examined

1 ♂ (dissected); “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ Homeotipo [printed] \ FORTE PRINCIPE, Rondônia, Brasil [printed] XI. 1962 [handwritten] W. Bokermann [printed] \ Comparado com tipo [printed], Mycotretus dimidiatus Crotch, 1876 [handwritten], M. Alvarenga det. 1971 [printed] \ Mycotretus seminiger Harold, 1876 [handwritten], M. Alvarenga det. [printed], 1984 [handwritten] \ 20-38-A [handwritten]”; MNRJ.

Remarks

Harold (1876) proposed the new specific name Mycotretus seminiger Harold, 1876 to replace Mycotretus dimidiatus Crotch, 1876. Taschenberg (1870) described a species called M. dimidiatus, so therefore the name proposed by Crotch (1876) is a junior homonym. The present combination is a replacement name, Mycotretus seminiger Harold, 1876, not Mycotretus dimidiatus Taschenberg, 1870, fide Alvarenga (1994) and Skelley (1998b).

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 104-105, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.876.2149, http://zenodo.org/record/8095647

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MNRJ , UMZC
Scientific name authorship
Harold
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Erotylidae
Genus
Mycotretus
Species
seminiger
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Mycotretus seminiger Harold, 1876 sec. Pecci-Maddalena, Lopes-Andrade & Skelley, 2023

References

  • Harold E. 1876. Geanderte Namen. Coleopterologische Hefte 15: 1 - 174.
  • Crotch G. R. 1876. A revision of the coleopterous family Erotylidae. Cistula Entomologica 1: 377 - 572. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 9222
  • Taschenberg E. L. 1870. Neue Kafer aus Columbien und Ecuador. Zeitschrift fur die gesammten Naturwissenschaften 35: 177 - 199.
  • 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.