Mycotretus maculatus
Creators: name: Pecci-Maddalena, Italo Salvatore de Castro
name: Lopes-Andrade, Cristiano
name: Skelley, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Erotylidae
Mycotretus
Mycotretus maculatus

description: 223. Mycotretus maculatus (Olivier, 1792)
Erotylus maculatus Olivier, 1792: 436. Type locality: “ Surinam ”.
Mycotretus figuratus Lacordaire, 1842: 159 (Fig. 29D). Type locality: “Cayenne” [French Guiana].
Mycotretus mutabilis Crotch, 1876: 438. Type locality: “Ega” [= Tefé, in the state of Amazonas, North Brazil] syn. nov. (Fig. 7E).
Erotylus maculatus – Duponchel 1825: 176. — Lacordaire 1842: 192.
Mycotretus figuratus – Chevrolat 1843: 79 [synonym of M. maculatus (Olivier, 1792)]. — Alvarenga 1994: 29.
Mycotretus maculatus – Crotch 1876: 438. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3693. — Gorham 1888: 49. — Kuhnt 1909: 76; 1911: 50. — Curran 1941: 286–287. — B1ackwelder 1945: 466. — Guérin 1948: 20. — Alvarenga 1994: 28. — Skelley 1998b: 15. — McHugh & Chaboo 2015: 278.
Mycotretus mutabilis – Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3694. — Kuhnt 1909: 76; 1911: 51. — Blackwelder 1945: 467. — Alvarenga 1994: 30. — Skelley 1998b: 15.
Type specimen
Not located.
Other specimens examined
BRAZIL • 1 ♂ (dissected); “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ SINOP 12º31’S, 55º37’W, BR 163 km 500 a 600, Mato Grosso, BRASIL, 350 m [printed] X. 1975 [handwritten], Roppa & Alvarenga col. [printed] \ Mycotretus mutabilis Crotch, 1876 [handwritten] M. Alvarenga det. [printed] 1984 [handwritten]”; MNRJ • 1 ♂ (dissected); “ Hansa. S. Catarina. [printed] 11. 941? [handwritten] \ Coll. J. Guerin. S. Paulo. Brasil. [printed] 18709 [handwritten] \ Mycotretus maculatus Ol. [handwritten] J. Guerin. det. 19 [printed] 54 [handwritten]”; MZSP.
PANAMA • 1 ♂ (dissected); (Fig. 39E); “ Bugaba, 800–1,500 ft. Champion. [printed] \ Sp. figured. [printed] \ Mycotretus maculatus [handwritten] \ B.C.A., Vol., VII. Mycotretus [printed]”; BMNH.
Distribution
Neotropical region.
Remarks
1)There are no morphological or colour pattern differences between M. maculatus Olivier and M.figuratus Lacordaire, and we confirm the synonymy first proposed by Chevrolat (1843). 2) In spite of small colour differences between M. maculatus Olivier and M. mutabilis Crotch, the male genitalia and ventral/dorsal features of both species have the same morphology. Therefore we synonymized M. mutabilis under M. maculatus. 3) Crotch (1876: 438) mentioned one specimen named “ M. tricintus ” in the description of M. mutabilis. However it is not clear whether it was considered a variety of M. mutabilis or any other specimen examined. In this case, we considered the “ M. tricinctus specimen” as a paralectotype of M. mutabilis, but we included a question mark on its label (see Remarks on M. mutabilis above).
description: 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 168, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.876.2149, http://zenodo.org/record/8095647