Mycotretus
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Mycotretus is a large American genus in the pleasing fungus beetle family. They are small, oval beetles, and often very colorful and boldly patterned in yellowish, orange-red to chestnut-brown, and bl
Mycotretus sexoculatus
This Mexican specimen of Mycotretus lesueuri, initially named Erotylus leseuri by Chevrolat and placed in Lybas by Dejean, is the name-bearing type of its species, and thus also of the entire genus Mycotretes
Mycotretus centralis in Santa Rosa de Calamuchita, Argentina
Mycotretus duodecimguttatus in Panguana, Peru
Megischyrus
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Megischyrus is a sizeable Neotropical genus of pleasing fungus beetles, containing about 3 dozen described species. It is placed in subfamily Tritominae, or – in taxonomic arrangements that prefer a m
Mycotretus
…But he retained the name Ischyrus for the second group, which had been treated as Mycotretus by Dejean. The first group, Dejean's Ischyrus, was named Megischyrus by Crotch. For his remaining Ischyrus, Crotch designated Olivier's Erotylus quadripunctatus as type species. As he only referred back to Lacordaire…
Megischyrus zonalis cropped
Megischyrus octostriatus attacked by little red acariform mites (probably Erythraeidae larvae), Cascatinha district, Petrópolis, Brazil