Mycotretus lesueuri
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 lesueuri

description: 12. Mycotretus lesueuri (Chevrolat, 1835)
Erotylus lesueuri Chevrolat, 1835: 175, fasc. 8. Type locality: “Bocadelmonte” [Boca del Monte, in the state of Veracruz, Mexico].
Mycotretus savignyi Lacordaire, 1842: 156. Type locality: “ Colombie ” syn. nov. (Fig. 36C).
Mycotretus lesueuri – Lacordaire 1842: 155. — Crotch 1876: 455. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3693. — Gorham 1888: 59. — Kuhnt 1909: 73; 1911: 50. — Deelder 1942: 88. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 28. — Skelley & Goodrich 1994: 129. — Skelley 1998b: 17. — Pecci-Maddalena & Lopes-Andrade 2018b: 21. — Pecci-Maddalena et al. 2021a: 955.
Mycotretus savignyi – Crotch 1873b: 145; 1876: 455. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3695. — Gorham 1888: 60. — Kuhnt 1909: 72; 1911: 53. — Deelder 1942: 89. — Mader 1942: 172; 1951: 212. — Blackwelder 1945: 467. — Guérin 1948: 20. — Alvarenga 1994: 34. — Skelley 1998b: 17. — McHugh & Chaboo 2015: 278.
Primary type
Lectotype, here designated (Fig. 3F)
MEXICO • “TYPE [blue label, printed] \ TYPE. [printed], lesueuri Ch [handwritten] \ LECTOTYPE [printed], Erotylus lesueuri Chevrolat, 1835 [red label, handwritten] \ Mycotretus lesueuri (Chevrolat) [handwritten], det. I. Pecci-Maddalena 2017 [printed]”; UMZC.
Other specimens examined
Paralectotype
MEXICO • 1 spec.; “ Chevr. [printed] \ PARATYPE [blue label, printed] \ PARALECTOTYPE [printed], Erotylus lesueuri Chevrolat, 1835 [yellow label, handwritten] \ Mycotretus lesueuri (Chevrolat) [handwritten], det. I. Pecci-Maddalena 2017 [printed]”; 1 specimen (UMZC) “mex. [handwritten]”; UMZC.
Additional material
BRAZIL • 1 spec.; “Braz [handwritten]”; UMZC.
MEXICO • 1 ♀ (dissected); BMNH • 1 spec.; “ Toxpam [handwritten] Mexico. Salle Coll. [printed] \ 2405 [printed] \ B.C.A., Col.,VII. Mycotretus lesueuri. [printed] \ Mycotretus lesueuri Chev apud Sallé [handwritten]”; UMZC • 1 ♀ (dissected); “ Mexico. Salle Coll. [printed] \ Toxpam [printed] \ B.C.A., Col.,VII. Mycotretus lesueuri. [printed] \ Mycotretus lesueuri Chev apud Sallé [handwritten]”; BMNH • 1 ♂ (dissected); “red label [unwritten] \ M. lesueuri Chev [handwritten] \ MUSEUM PARIS AMÉRIQUE CENTRALE (Coll du [?] Biol Central Amer) Godman 1908 [printed] \ Jalapa, Mexico. Hoege. [printed]”; MNHN • 1 ♀ (dissected); “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ Homeotipo [red label, printed] \ Coatepec, Ver. [handwritten] \ Mycotretus lesueuri Chevr. [handwritten] \ 1655 [printed] \ Comparado com tipo [printed] Erotylus lesueuri Chevr., 1835 [handwritten] M. Alvarenga det. 1971 [printed] \ Mycotretus lesueuri Coat. Chev. [handwritten] \ DZUP 132756 [printed]”; DZUP • 1 ♂ (dissected); “ Apaneco, Ahuachapau, El Salvador, 16.VII. 1959, J. Bechyné [handwritten] \ DZUP 132757 [printed]”; DZUP • 1 ♂ (dissected); “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ I. [?] San Vicente Finca Lapaz El Salvador 3.VIII. 1959 [?] J. Bechyne [handwritten] \ 1653 [printed] \ lesueuri [?] Chevr. [handwritten] \ Homeotipo [red label, printed] \ lesueuri Chevr. 1835 [handwritten]”; MNRJ • 1 ♂ (dissected); “[red label, unwritten] \ M. savignyi [handwritten] \ MUSEUM PARIS AMÉRIQUE CENTRALE (Coll du [?] Biol Central Amer) Godman 1908 [printed] \ V. de Chiriqui, 25–4000 ft. Champion [printed]”; MNHN • 1 ♂ (dissected); “292, 39 [disc-shaped label, handwritten]”; MNHN • 1 spec.; “ D. Lebas. [green label, handwritten]”; MRSN.
Distribution
Mexico, El Salvador, Colombia, North Brazil.
Remarks
The unique clear-cut difference between M. lesueuri and M. savignyi is the colour of the legs, which is black in the former and reddish-brown in the latter. There is no detectable morphological difference.
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 pages 23-24, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.876.2149, http://zenodo.org/record/8095647