Mycomystes apicalis
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
Mycomystes
Mycomystes apicalis

description: Mycomystes apicalis (Lacordaire, 1842)
Mycotretus apicalis Lacordaire, 1842: 181 [description]. Type locality: “ Colombie ”.
Mycotretus gemmula Lacordaire, 1842: 181 [description] (Fig. 30B).
Mycotretus gentilis Lacordaire, 1842: 182 [description] (Fig. 30C).
Mycotretus nigroterminatus Lacordaire, 1842: 180 [description] (Fig. 33F).
Mycotretus pulicarius Lacordaire, 1842: 182 [description] (Fig. 35A).
Mycotretus coccinelloides Taschenberg, 1870: 198 [description] (Fig. 40B).
Mycotretus corallipennis Crotch, 1876: 448 [description] (Fig. 5C).
Mycotretus apicalis – Crotch 1876: 448. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3691. — Kuhnt 1909: 74; 1911: 48. — Mader 1942: 173; 1951: 214. — Blackwelder 1945: 465. — Alvarenga 1994: 20. — Skelley 1998b: 16. — Moreira et al. 2010a: 573; 2010b: 342. — McHugh & Chaboo 2015: 278. — Pecci-Maddalena & Lopes-Andrade 2017: 162; 2020: 585. — Pecci-Maddalena et al. 2021a: 955.
Mycotretus gemmula – Crotch 1876: 448. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3693. — Kuhnt 1909: 73; 1911: 50. — Mader 1942: 173; 1951: 214. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 26. — Skelley 1998b: 16. — McHugh & Chaboo 2015: 278. — Pecci-Maddalena et al. 2021b: 3078 [synonym of Mycomystes apicalis].
Mycotretus gentilis – Crotch 1876: 448 [synonym with M. gemmula]. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3693. — Kuhnt 1909: 73; 1911: 50. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 26. — Pecci-Maddalena et al. 2021b: 3078 [synonym of Mycomystes apicalis].
Mycotretus nigroterminatus – Crotch 1876: 448. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3694. — Kuhnt 1909: 74; 1911: 51. — Blackwelder 1945: 467. — Guérin 1948: 20. — Alvarenga 1994: 30. — Skelley 1998b: 16. — Pecci-Maddalena et al. 2021b: 3078 [synonym of Mycomystes apicalis].
Mycotretus pulicarius – Crotch 1876: 448 [synonym with M. gemmula]. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3693. — Mader 1942: 173. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 26. — Pecci-Maddalena et al. 2021b: 3078 [synonym of Mycomystes apicalis].
Mycotretus coccinelloides – Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3692. — Kuhnt 1909: 74; 1911: 48. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 22. — Pecci-Maddalena et al. 2021b: 3078 [synonym of Mycomystes apicalis].
Mycotretus corallipennis – Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3692. — Kuhnt 1909: 71; 1911: 48. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 22. — Skelley 1998b: 16. — Pecci-Maddalena et al. 2021b: 3078 [synonym of Mycomystes apicalis].
Mycomystes apicalis – Pecci-Maddalena et al. 2021b: 3078.
Primary type
Lectotype (Fig. 26E)
COLOMBIA • “Colombie [handwritten] \ Apicalis Lac [handwritten] \ Type [handwritten] \ Ex-Musaeo Mniszech [printed] \ LECTOTYPE [printed] Mycotretus apicalis Lacordaire, 1842 [red label, handwritten]”; MNHN.
Other specimens examined
See Pecci-Maddalena et al. (2021b).
Distribution
Southeast Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Argentina (Pecci-Maddalena et al. 2021b).
Remarks
See Pecci-Maddalena et al. (2021b).
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 119-120, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.876.2149, http://zenodo.org/record/8095647