Mycotretus lepidus Lacordaire 1842
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 lepidus

description: 176. Mycotretus lepidus Lacordaire, 1842
Mycotretus lepidus Lacordaire, 1842: 178. Type locality: “Cayenne” [French Guiana].
Mycotretus graniformis Lacordaire, 1842: 152. Type locality: “Cayenne” [French Guiana] syn. nov. (Fig. 30E).
Mycotretus chontalesi Crotch, 1873b: 145. Type locality: “Santo Domingo, Chontales, Nicaragua ” [Department of Chontales, Nicaragua] syn. nov. (Fig. 5A).
Mycotretus lepidus – Crotch 1876: 446. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3693. — Kuhnt 1909: 72; 1911: 50. — Deelder 1942: 88. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 28.
Mycotretus graniformis – Crotch 1876: 453. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3693. — Kuhnt 1909: 72; 1911: 50. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 26.
Mycotretus chontalesi – Crotch: 1876: 446. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3692. — Gorham 1888: 70. — Kuhnt 1909: 72; 1911: 48. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 22.
Primary type
Lectotype, here designated (Fig. 31F)
FRENCH GUIANA • “ D. Lacordaire [handwritten] \ LECTOTYPE [printed] Mycotretus lepidus Lacordaire, 1842 [red label, handwritten]”; MRSN.
Other specimens examined
BRAZIL • 1 ♂ (dissected); “Coleção M.Alvarenga [printed] \ 1790 [printed] \ Jacareacanga, Pará, Brasil, XII-1968, M. Alvarenga [printed] \ Homeotipo [red label, printed] \ suturalis [handwritten] \ não confere com a descrição [handwritten]”; MNRJ • 1 ♂ (dissected); “ Chaparé, Bolivia, 10948 [handwritten] \ Coll. J. Guerin. S. Paulo. Brasil. [printed] 18173 [handwritten] \ Mycotretus derasofasciatus Kuhnt. [handwritten] J Guerin det. 19 [printed] 50 [handwritten]”; MZSP • 1 ♂ (dissected); “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ MANAUS, Amazonas Brasil [printed] XI. 1966, S.J. Oliveira [handwritten] \ 1784 [printed] \ DZUP 127837 [printed] \ malaise [handwritten] \ Mycotretus 023 [handwritten]”; DZUP • 1 ♀ (dissected); “ PERU: Loreto Pr.:nr. Jct. Rio Maranon & Ucayali, 73.5ºW 4.8ºS, 6–20–VIII–1994, P. Skelley, day catch [printed] \ Mycotretus Lepidus Lac. [handwritten] det. P.E. Skelley 1996 [printed] \ Col. MCN 238413 [printed]”; MCNZ.
Distribution
Nicaragua, North Brazil, Bolivia, French Guiana, Suriname, Ecuador, Peru.
Remarks
The dorsal colour patterns of Mycotretus lepidus, M. chontalesi, M. graniformis are almost identical. Those species differ only by the spots close to the basal elytral edge, which can be completely ‘divided’ or ‘entire’ depending on the individuals. Aside from these small differences, we dissected individuals showing those phenotypes and observed that their male genitalia have the same morphology.
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 137, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.876.2149, http://zenodo.org/record/8095647