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Mycotretus quattuordecimguttatus 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

199. Mycotretus quattuordecimguttatus Lacordaire, 1842

Mycotretus quattuordecimguttatus Lacordaire, 1842: 163. Type locality: Colombia (Fig. 35E).

Mycotretus bisseptemguttatus Crotch, 1876: 441. Type locality: “Cayenne” [Cayenne, French Guiana] syn. nov. (Fig. 4D)

Mycotretus quattuordecimguttatus – Crotch 1876: 439. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3694. — Kuhnt 1909: 71; 1911: 53. — Deelder 1942: 89. — Blackwelder 1945: 467. — Alvarenga 1994: 33. — Skelley 1998b: 15.

Mycotretus bisseptemguttatus – Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3692. — Kuhnt 1909: 71; 1911: 48. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 21.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated (Fig. 35E)

COLOMBIA • “TYPE [blue label, printed] \ TYPE. [printed] 14-guttatus R [handwritten] \ Colomb [handwritten] \ LECTOTYPE [printed] Mycotretus quatuordecimguttatus Lacordaire, 1842 [red label, handwritten]”; UMZC.

Other specimens examined

BRAZIL • 1 ♀ (dissected); “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ Homeotipo [red label, printed] \ XI-60, Ter. Amapá, Serra do Navio, R. Bicelli col. [handwritten] \ Comparado com tipo [printed] Mycotretus quattuordecimguttatus; Lac, 1842 [handwritten] M. Alvarenga det. 1971 [printed] \ Comparado com tipo [printed] Mycotretus bisseptemguttatus Crotch, 1876 [handwritten] M. Alvarenga det. 1971 [printed] \ 1827 [printed]”; MNRJ.

Remarks

Mycotretus bisseptemguttatus Crotch differs from M. quattuordecimguttatus Lacordaire only in the circular elytral spots, which are comparatively larger in the former species.

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

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References

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  • 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
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