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Mycotretus palmiphilus 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

189. Mycotretus palmiphilus Lacordaire, 1842

Mycotretus palmiphilus Lacordaire, 1842: 165. Type locality: “Cayenne” [French Guiana].

Mycotretus palmiphilus – Crotch 1876: 439. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3694. — Kuhnt 1909: 71; 1911: 52. — Blackwelder 1945: 467. — Alvarenga 1994. — 32; Skelley 1998b: 15.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated (Fig. 34 A)

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

Other specimens examined

FRENCH GUIANA • 1 spec.; “Cayenne [handwritten] \ Palmiphilus Lac. [handwritten] \ Type [handwritten] \ Ex-Musaeo Mniszech [printed]”; MNHN • 1 spec.; “ Cayen [handwritten] \ TYPE. [printed, crossed out] palmiphilus coll Reiche [handwritten] \ PARALECTOTYPE [printed] Mycotretus palmiphilus Lacordaire, 1842 [yellow label, handwritten]”; UMCZ.

Distribution

French Guiana, North Brazil.

Remarks

We examined a specimen of M. palmiphilus deposited in the MNHN and mistakenly labeled it as “ lectotype ”. Subsequently we decided that it would be better to designate the specimen from the MRSN (Fig. 34A) as the lectotype, since Lacordaire (1842) did not mention the Dupont collection in his description (see Material and Methods, comments about type depositories). In such cases, the specimens used by Lacordaire presumably belong to the Brême collection (MRSN). Mycotretus palmiphilus resembles M. argus Lacordaire, 1842 (Fig. 26F), but we did not have a sufficient number of specimens of either species for comparison, and we prefer not to propose a new synonym here.

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

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
UMCZ
Family
Erotylidae
Genus
Mycotretus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Lacordaire
Species
palmiphilus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype , paralectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Mycotretus palmiphilus 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. 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
  • Skelley P. E. 1998 b. A catalogue of the Crotch collection of Erotylidae (Coleoptera). Annales Zoologici 48 (1 / 2): 1 - 44.