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Mycotretus rhodosomus Lacordaire. Therefore 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

200. Mycotretus rhodosomus Lacordaire, 1842

Mycotretus rhodosomus Lacordaire, 1842: 166. Type locality: “ Brésil ”.

Brachysphaenus (Iphiclus) nigromaculatus Kuhnt, 1909: 27. Type locality: “ Mexico ” syn. nov. (Fig. 25B).

Mycotretus rhodosomus – Crotch 1876: 444. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3694. — Kuhnt 1909: 72; 1911: 53. — Blackwelder 1945: 467. — Guérin 1948: 20. — Alvarenga 1994: 34. — Skelley 1998b: 16. — Pecci-Maddalena et al. 2021a: 955.

Brachysphaenus (Iphiclus) nigromaculatus Kuhnt 1911: 17. — Blackwelder 1945: 459.

Mycotretus nigromaculatus – Delkeskamp 1939: 27. — Alvarenga 1994: 30.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated (Fig. 35F)

MEXICO • “TYPE [blue label, printed] \ TYPE. [printed] rhodosomus Ch [handwritten] \ LECTOTYPE [printed] Mycotretus rhodosomus Lacordaire, 1842 [red label, handwritten]”; UMZC.

Other specimens examined

BRAZIL • 1 ♂ (dissected); “ Rio de janeiro, 2/1944, O. Braga [handwritten] \ Mycotretus rhodosomus Lac [handwritten] J. Guerin. det. 194[printed]8[handwritten]”; MNRJ • 1 ♀ (dissected); “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ Homeotipo [printed] \ Rio de janeiro, 2/1944, O. Braga [handwritten] \ 1825 [printed] \ Mycotretus rhodosomus Lac [handwritten] J. Guerin. det. 194 [printed]8[handwritten] \ Comparado com tipo [printed] Mycotretus rhodosomus Lac, 1842 [handwritten] M. Alvarenga det. 1971 [printed]”; MNRJ.

Distribution

Mexico [?], Southeast Brazil.

Remarks

1) Although the lectotype of M. nigromaculatus (Kuhnt) was not dissected, its general morphology and colour pattern are identical to those of the lectotype of M. rhodosomus Lacordaire. Therefore, here we synonymize M. nigromaculatus (Kuhnt) under M. rhodosomus Lacordaire. 2) We observed that the type locality “ Mexico ” of M. nigromaculatus cited by Kuhnt (1909) is likely wrong. Lacordaire (1842) mentioned that the type locality of M. rhodosomus is “ Brazil ” and all individuals examined by us are from Southeast Brazil. Aside from that, there is no mention of the name “ M. rhodosomus ” in Biologia Centrali-Americana (see Gorham 1888), a work for which hundreds of erotylids from Central America and Mexico were studied.

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 154-155, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.876.2149, http://zenodo.org/record/8095647

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MNRJ , UMZC
Scientific name authorship
Lacordaire. Therefore
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Erotylidae
Genus
Mycotretus
Species
rhodosomus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Mycotretus rhodosomus Therefore, 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
  • 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].
  • 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. 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Delkeskamp K. 1939. Kritik an Maders Arbeit " Ueber neue und bekannte Erotyliden ". Entomologische Blatter fur Biologie und Systematik der Kafer 35: 27 - 30.
  • 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