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Mycotretus pygmaeus 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

197. Mycotretus pygmaeus Lacordaire, 1842

Mycotretus pygmaeus Lacordaire, 1842: 156. Type locality: “Cayenne” [French Guiana].

Mycotretus pygmaeus – Crotch 1876: 455. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3694. — Gorham 1888: 62. — Kuhnt 1909: 72; 1911: 52. — Bruch 1914: 384. — Curran 1941: 286. — Mader 1942: 172; 1951: 211. — Blackwelder 1945: 467. — Guérin 1948: 20. — Alvarenga 1994: 33. — Skelley 1998b: 17. — McHugh & Chaboo 2015: 278.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated (Fig. 35C)

FRENCH GUIANA — “Cayenne [handwritten] \ Pygmaeus Lac [handwritten] \ Type [handwritten] \ Ex-Musaeo Mniszech [printed] \ LECTOTYPE [printed] Mycotretus pygmaeus Lacordaire, 1842 [red label, handwritten]”; MNHN.

Other specimens examined

FRENCH GUIANA • 1 spec.; “ D. Guerin. [handwritten]”; MRSN • 1 spec.; “Cayenne Lacordaire. [handwritten] \ TYPE. [printed, crossed out] pygmaeus coll. Reiche. [handwritten]”; UMZC.

BRAZIL • 1 ♂ (dissected); “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ Jacaré P.N.XINGU, M. Grosso Brasil, XI–1961, Alvarenga e Werner [printed] \ DZUP 371368 [printed]”; DZUP • 1 ♀; “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ SERRA do NAVIO, Terr. Amapá BRASIL, IX–1957, K. Lenko leg. [printed] \ DZUP 371396 [printed]”; DZUP • 1 ♂ (dissected); “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ CHAPADA GUIMARÃES, Mato Grosso Brasil, XI–1963, Alvarenga e Werner [printed] \ DZUP 371440 [printed]”; DZUP.

Distribution

From Mexico to Argentina.

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

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
DZUP , MNHN , MRSN , UMZC
Family
Erotylidae
Genus
Mycotretus
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
DZUP 371368 , DZUP 371396 , DZUP 371440
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Lacordaire
Species
pygmaeus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Mycotretus pygmaeus 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
  • 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].
  • Bruch C. 1914. Catalogo sistematico de los coleopteros de la republica Argentina. Revista del Museo de La Plata 19: 346 - 441.
  • Curran C. H. 1941. Erotylidae of Kartabo, Barctica, British Guiana (Coleoptera). Zoologica: Scientific Contributions of the New York Zoological Society 26 (3): 281 - 288.
  • Mader L. 1942. Erotylidae (Col.). In: Titschack (ed.) Beitrage zur Fauna Perus. G. Fischer, Hamburg.
  • Mader L. 1951. Die Erotyliden von Peru (Col.). Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey Tutzing bei Munchen 2 (1): 197 - 225.
  • 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
  • Guerin J. 1948. Catalogo dos Erotylidae (Col.) das colecoes do Instituto de Ecologia e Experimentacao Agricolas do Ministerio da Agricultura, com a descricao de algumas especies novas. Boletim do Instituto de Ecologia e Experimentacao Agricolas 8: 1 - 26.
  • 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.
  • McHugh J. V. & Chaboo C. S. 2015. Beetles (Coleoptera) of Peru: a survey of the families. Erotylidae Latreille, 1802. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 88 (2): 274 - 282. https: // doi. org / 10.2317 / kent- 88 - 02 - 274 - 282.1