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Mycotretus lepidus 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

176. Mycotretus lepidus Lacordaire, 1842

Mycotretus lepidus Lacordaire, 1842: 178. Type locality: “Cayenne” [French Guiana].

Mycotretus graniformis Lacordaire, 1842: 152. Type locality: “Cayenne” [French Guiana] syn. nov. (Fig. 30E).

Mycotretus chontalesi Crotch, 1873b: 145. Type locality: “Santo Domingo, Chontales, Nicaragua ” [Department of Chontales, Nicaragua] syn. nov. (Fig. 5A).

Mycotretus lepidus Crotch 1876: 446. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3693. — Kuhnt 1909: 72; 1911: 50. — Deelder 1942: 88. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 28.

Mycotretus graniformis – Crotch 1876: 453. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3693. — Kuhnt 1909: 72; 1911: 50. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 26.

Mycotretus chontalesi – Crotch: 1876: 446. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3692. — Gorham 1888: 70. — Kuhnt 1909: 72; 1911: 48. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 22.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated (Fig. 31F)

FRENCH GUIANA • “ D. Lacordaire [handwritten] \ LECTOTYPE [printed] Mycotretus lepidus Lacordaire, 1842 [red label, handwritten]”; MRSN.

Other specimens examined

BRAZIL • 1 ♂ (dissected); “Coleção M.Alvarenga [printed] \ 1790 [printed] \ Jacareacanga, Pará, Brasil, XII-1968, M. Alvarenga [printed] \ Homeotipo [red label, printed] \ suturalis [handwritten] \ não confere com a descrição [handwritten]”; MNRJ • 1 ♂ (dissected); “ Chaparé, Bolivia, 10948 [handwritten] \ Coll. J. Guerin. S. Paulo. Brasil. [printed] 18173 [handwritten] \ Mycotretus derasofasciatus Kuhnt. [handwritten] J Guerin det. 19 [printed] 50 [handwritten]”; MZSP • 1 ♂ (dissected); “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ MANAUS, Amazonas Brasil [printed] XI. 1966, S.J. Oliveira [handwritten] \ 1784 [printed] \ DZUP 127837 [printed] \ malaise [handwritten] \ Mycotretus 023 [handwritten]”; DZUP • 1 ♀ (dissected); “ PERU: Loreto Pr.:nr. Jct. Rio Maranon & Ucayali, 73.5ºW 4.8ºS, 6–20–VIII–1994, P. Skelley, day catch [printed] \ Mycotretus Lepidus Lac. [handwritten] det. P.E. Skelley 1996 [printed] \ Col. MCN 238413 [printed]”; MCNZ.

Distribution

Nicaragua, North Brazil, Bolivia, French Guiana, Suriname, Ecuador, Peru.

Remarks

The dorsal colour patterns of Mycotretus lepidus, M. chontalesi, M. graniformis are almost identical. Those species differ only by the spots close to the basal elytral edge, which can be completely ‘divided’ or ‘entire’ depending on the individuals. Aside from these small differences, we dissected individuals showing those phenotypes and observed that their male genitalia have the same morphology.

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

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
DZUP , MCNZ , MNRJ , MRSN , MZSP
Material sample ID
DZUP 127837 , MCN 238413
Event date
1994-08-06
Verbatim event date
1994-08-06/20
Scientific name authorship
Lacordaire
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Erotylidae
Genus
Mycotretus
Species
lepidus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Mycotretus lepidus 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
  • Crotch G. R. 1873 b. A list of Erotylidae collected by Edward M. Janson, in the vicinity of Santo Domingo, Chontales, Nicaragua, with descriptions of new genera and species. Cistula Entomologica 1: 141 - 151.
  • 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].
  • Deelder C. L. 1942. Revision of the Erotylidae (Coleoptera) of the Leiden Museum. Zoologische Mededelingen 24: 49 - 115. Available from https: // repository. naturalis. nl / pub / 318060 [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
  • 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