14. Mycotretus balteatus Crotch, 1876 Mycotretus balteatus Crotch, 1876: 445. Type locality: “Ega” [= Tefé, in the state of Amazonas, North Brazil]. Mycotretus balteatus – Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3692. — Kuhnt 1909: 74; 1911: 48. — Blackwelder 1945: 465. — Alvarenga 1994: 21. — Skelley 1998b: 16. Primary type Lectotype, here designated (Fig. 4B) BRAZIL • “TYPE [blue label, printed] \ TYPE [printed], balteatus Ega Bates [handwritten] \ LECTOTYPE [printed], Mycotretus balteatus Crotch, 1876 [red label, handwritten]”; UMZC. Other specimens examined BRAZIL • 1 ♀ (dissected); “Homeotipo [red label, printed] \ Rio Cauaburi, Amazon, Brasil, 7-8.XII.1962, J. Bechyné col. [printed] \ Convênio DZSP-Goeldi [printed] \ Comparado com tipo [printed] Mycotretus balteatus Crotch, 1876 [handwritten] M. Alvarenga det. 1971 [printed] \ 1823-A [handwritten]”; MNRJ. PERU • 1 ♂ (dissected); “ PERU: Dept. Loreto, 1.5 km, N Teniente Lopez, 2º35.66’S, 76º06.92’W, 16 July 1993, 210– 240 m, Richard Leschen #116, ex Favolus brasiliensis [printed] \ Mycotretus balteatus [handwritten] det. P.E.Skelley [printed]”; FSCA. Distribution North Brazil. Remarks 1) The locality “Ega” mentioned by Crotch (1876) currently corresponds to “Tefè”, in the state of Amazonas, North Brazil (Alvarenga 1994), and we use the name Tefé, rather than Ega, throughout the text. 2) The penile flagellum of Mycotretus balteatus has a flagellar ring-shaped head, similar to that present in other Mycotretus (e.g., M. pygmaeus, M. deyrollei, M. maculatus).

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 25, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.876.2149, http://zenodo.org/record/8095647