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| Mycomystes | |
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| Adult Mycomystes apicalis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Erotylidae |
| Subfamily: | Erotylinae |
| Tribe: | Tritomini |
| Genus: | Mycomystes Gorham, 1888[1] |
| Type species | |
| Mycomystes ferrugineus Gorham, 1888 | |
Mycomystes is a genus of neotropical pleasing fungus beetles (family Erotylidae). The adults are smallish, oval, and have conspicuously clubbed antennae, like most of their relatives. They are colored mostly dark orange to chestnut-brown, with additional black in some species. Among its family, this genus is placed in subfamily Tritominae, or – in taxonomic arrangements that prefer a more comprehensive subfamily Erotylinae – in tribe Tritomini of the Erotylinae.[2][3][4]
Species
[edit]Until the early 21st century, this genus only included the type species M.ferrugineus.[5] More recently, several species of the closely related Mycotretus were moved here. For a few other beetles presently in Mycotretus (e.g. M. adalioides), their affiliations remain to be clarified; these, too, might eventually be revealed as Mycomystes.[2]
As of 2023, 7 species are placed in Mycomystes:[2]
- Mycomystes apicalis (Lacordaire, 1842) (= M.coccinelloides, M.corallipennis, M.gemmula, M.gentilis, M.nigroterminatus, M.pulicarius)
- Mycomystes coccineus (Lacordaire, 1842) (= M.sanguinosus, M.unicolor)
- Mycomystes ferrugineus Gorham, 1888
- Mycomystes fuscitarsis (Lacordaire, 1842)
- Mycomystes melanophthalmus (Duponchel, 1825) (= M.cinctellus, M.discoidalis)
- Mycomystes nigriventris Pecci-Maddalena & Lopes-Andrade, 2020
- Mycomystes peruvianus (Kirsch, 1876)
References
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- ↑ biolib.cz
- 1 2 3 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". European Journal of Taxonomy (876): 2149. Bibcode:2023EJTax.876.2149P. doi:10.5852/ejt.2023.876.2149.
- ↑ "Genus Mycomystes". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2026-06-15.
- ↑ "Mycomystes Gorham, 1888". GBIF. Retrieved 2026-06-15.
- ↑ Alvarenga, Moacyr (1994). "Catálogo dos Erotylidae (Coleoptera) Neotropicais". Revista Brasileira de Zoologia. 11: 1–175. doi:10.1590/S0101-81751994000100001.
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