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Mycotretus flavomarginatus Lacordaire 1842

  • 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

165. Mycotretus flavomarginatus Lacordaire, 1842

Mycotretus flavomarginatus Lacordaire, 1842: 157. Type locality: “province de Rio-Janeiro” [= Rio de Janeiro, state? locality?, Southeast Brazil].

Mycotretus major Mader, 1955: 477. Type locality: “ Paraguay: Villarica” syn. nov. (Fig. 38D).

Mycotretus flavomarginatus – Crotch 1876: 444. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3692. — Kuhnt 1909: 71; 1911: 49. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 26. — Pecci-Maddalena et al. 2021a: 955.

Mycotretus major – Alvarenga 1994: 29.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated (Fig. 29 E)

BRAZIL • “ LECTOTYPE [printed] Mycotretus flavomarginatus Lacordaire, 1842 [red label, handwritten]”; MRSN.

Other specimens examined

Paralectotype

BRAZIL • 1♀ (dissected); “Brésil[handwritten]\ Flavomarginatus Lac [handwritten]\Type [handwritten] \ Ex-Musaeo Mniszech [printed] \ PARALECTOTYPE [printed] Mycotretus flavomarginatus Lacordaire, 1842 [yellow label, handwritten]”; MNHN.

Additional material

BRAZIL • 1 ♀ (dissected); “Brasil: MG, Ipatinga, “ Ponte 13 ”, 05.i.2010, leg. Nolasco & C.L.A [printed]”; CELC • 1 ♂ (dissected); “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ CAMPINAS-SP, 18/X/1979, C.A. Klink [handwritten] \ Mycotretus flavomarginatus Lac. 1842 [handwritten] M. Alvarenga det. [printed] 1984 [handwritten]”; MNRJ • 1 ♂ (dissected); “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ Colatina, E. Santo Brasil [printed] XI. 1970 [handwritten] A. Silva [printed] \ 1899 [printed] \ Mycotretus 183 [handwritten] \ n. sp. [handwritten] \ Tibia posterior fortemente curvada. ♂? [handwritten]”; MNRJ.

Distribution

Paraguay, Southeast Brazil.

Remarks

We dissected specimens of M. flavomarginatus and M. major and their male genitalia morphology is exactly the same. The holotype of M. major is probably just a barely pigmented individual of M. flavomarginatus.

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 129-131, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.876.2149, http://zenodo.org/record/8095647

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
CELC , MNHN , MNRJ , MRSN
Event date
1979-10-18 , 2010-01-05
Verbatim event date
1979-10-18 , 2010-01-05
Scientific name authorship
Lacordaire
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Erotylidae
Genus
Mycotretus
Species
flavomarginatus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype , paralectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Mycotretus flavomarginatus Lacordaire, 1842 sec. Pecci-Maddalena, Lopes-Andrade & Skelley, 2023

References

  • Lacordaire J. T. 1842. Monographie des Erotyliens, famille de l'ordre des Coleopteres. Roret, Paris. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 51458
  • Mader L. 1955. Zwei neue Coleopteren aus Sudamerika. Mitteilungen der munchner entomologischen Gesellschaft 44 - 46: 476 - 478. Available from https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 29016846 [accessed 14 Apr. 2023].
  • 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].
  • 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
  • Pecci-Maddalena I. S. C., Lopes-Andrade C. & Skelley P. 2021 a. The metendosternite and penile flagellum: two unexplored character systems of pleasing fungus beetles (Coleoptera: Erotylidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 193: 953 - 972. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / zoolinnean / zlaa 152