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Mycotretus guatemalae Crotch 1876

  • 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

29. Mycotretus guatemalae Crotch, 1876

Mycotretus guatemalae Crotch, 1876: 441. Type locality: “ Guatemala ”.

Mycotretus guatemalae – Gorham 1888: 55. — Kuhnt 1909: 72; 1911: 50. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 27. — Skelley 1998b: 15.

Primary type

Lectotype, here designated (Fig. 7A)

GUATEMALA • “TYPE. [printed], guatemala Shepp. [handwritten] \ TYPE [blue label, printed] \ LECTOTYPE [printed], Mycotretus guatemalae Crotch, 1876 [red label, handwritten]”; UMZC.

Other specimens examined

GUATEMALA • 1 ♀ (dissected); “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ Homeotipo [red label, printed] \ S. Salvador, El Salvador, 24.vi.1960, J. Bechyné [handwritten] \ Mycotretus elegans Gorham, 1888 [handwritten, misidentification] M.Alvarenga det. [printed] 1971 [handwritten] \ 1835-A [handwritten]”; MNRJ • 1 ♀ (dissected); “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ Rio Caurimare, Caracas, 900m, 8.ix.1963, Boroon [handwritten] \ 1826 [printed] \ Mycotretus 203 [handwritten] \ M. guatemalae? [handwritten]”; MNRJ • 1 ♀ (dissected); “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ S. Salvador, El Salvador, 24.vi.1960, J. Bechyné [handwritten] \ DZUP 132850 [printed]”; DZUP.

Distribution

Guatemala, El Salvador, Venezuela.

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 37-38, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.876.2149, http://zenodo.org/record/8095647

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
DZUP , MNRJ , UMZC
Event date
1960-06-24 , 1963-09-08
Family
Erotylidae
Genus
Mycotretus
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
DZUP 132850
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Crotch
Species
guatemalae
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Verbatim event date
1960-06-24 , 1963-09-08
Taxonomic concept label
Mycotretus guatemalae Crotch, 1876 sec. Pecci-Maddalena, Lopes-Andrade & Skelley, 2023

References

  • Crotch G. R. 1876. A revision of the coleopterous family Erotylidae. Cistula Entomologica 1: 377 - 572. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 9222
  • 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].
  • 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.