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Mycomystes

Mycomystes is a genus of neotropical pleasing fungus beetles. 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.

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Mycomystes
Adult Mycomystes apicalis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Erotylidae
Subfamily: Erotylinae
Tribe: Tritomini
Genus: Mycomystes
Gorham, 18881
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.234

Species

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

References

References

  1. biolib.cz
  2. 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.
  3. "Genus Mycomystes". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2026-06-15.
  4. "Mycomystes Gorham, 1888". GBIF. Retrieved 2026-06-15.
  5. Alvarenga, Moacyr (1994). "Catálogo dos Erotylidae (Coleoptera) Neotropicais". Revista Brasileira de Zoologia. 11: 1–175. doi:10.1590/S0101-81751994000100001.