199. Mycotretus quattuordecimguttatus Lacordaire, 1842 Mycotretus quattuordecimguttatus Lacordaire, 1842: 163. Type locality: Colombia (Fig. 35E). Mycotretus bisseptemguttatus Crotch, 1876: 441. Type locality: “Cayenne” [Cayenne, French Guiana] syn. nov. (Fig. 4D) Mycotretus quattuordecimguttatus – Crotch 1876: 439. — Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3694. — Kuhnt 1909: 71; 1911: 53. — Deelder 1942: 89. — Blackwelder 1945: 467. — Alvarenga 1994: 33. — Skelley 1998b: 15. Mycotretus bisseptemguttatus – Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3692. — Kuhnt 1909: 71; 1911: 48. — Blackwelder 1945: 466. — Alvarenga 1994: 21. Primary type Lectotype, here designated (Fig. 35E) COLOMBIA • “TYPE [blue label, printed] \ TYPE. [printed] 14-guttatus R [handwritten] \ Colomb [handwritten] \ LECTOTYPE [printed] Mycotretus quatuordecimguttatus Lacordaire, 1842 [red label, handwritten]”; UMZC. Other specimens examined BRAZIL • 1 ♀ (dissected); “Coleção M. Alvarenga [printed] \ Homeotipo [red label, printed] \ XI-60, Ter. Amapá, Serra do Navio, R. Bicelli col. [handwritten] \ Comparado com tipo [printed] Mycotretus quattuordecimguttatus; Lac, 1842 [handwritten] M. Alvarenga det. 1971 [printed] \ Comparado com tipo [printed] Mycotretus bisseptemguttatus Crotch, 1876 [handwritten] M. Alvarenga det. 1971 [printed] \ 1827 [printed]”; MNRJ. Remarks Mycotretus bisseptemguttatus Crotch differs from M. quattuordecimguttatus Lacordaire only in the circular elytral spots, which are comparatively larger in the former species.

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