Antrosedes speluncarius , Reitter 1912
Creators: name: Čeplík, Dávid
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Antrosedes
Antrosedes speluncarius

description: Antrosedes speluncarius Reitter, 1912
(Figs 1–12)
Antrosedes speluncarius Reitter, 1912: 326. Type locality: Herzegowina: Aus einer Grotte der Vysošica planina.
Antrosedes speluncarius Reitter: Jeannel 1914: 51; Jeannel, 1924: 361 Laneyrie, 1967: 631; Pretner, 1968: 30; Pretner, 1970: 155; Guéorguiev, 1976: 117; Newton, 1998: 121; Perreau, 2000: 205; Perreau, 2015: 214; Hlaváč, Perreau & Čeplík, 2017: 105; Polak & Mulaomerović, 2021: 546.
Material studied: 4♁♁, 4♀♀: BiH, Visočica planina, Ljeljen Mt., Perala jama 4203, 1745 m., 06.2019 –08.2020, E. Quéinnec and E. Ollivier Lgt. (PCDČ); 1 ♁, 1♀: Bosnien, Bjelasnica-Gipfel, Setnik Lgt. (PCDČ).
Redescription. Body yellowish-brown, BL: 3.47–3.73 mm, L: 2.58–2.84 mm in males and BL: 3.86–3.94 mm, L: 2.94–3.00 mm in females.
Head (Figs 1–3) longer than (HL1) or about as long (HL2) as the pronotum, slightly narrower than pronotum, HW/PW: 0.83–0.86. Head longer than wide, HL1/HW: 1.37–1.50, HL2/HW: 1.10–1.13. Males antennomeres length (mm): (1) 0.14, (2) 0.28–0.30, (3) 0.22–0.25, (4) 0.22, (5) 0.22–0.25, (6) 0.22–0.25, (7) 0.29–0.32, (8) 0.16–0.17, (9) 0.33, (10) 0.33–0.36 and (11) 0.36–0.38. AL males: 2.83–2.91 mm. Male antennomere relative length/relative maximum width ratios: (1) 2.2, (2) 5.6, (3) 5.6, (4) 5.5, (5) 5.8, (6) 6.5, (7) 4.7, (8) 4, (9) 4.5, (10) 4 and (11) 4.2. Females antennomeres length (mm): (1) 0.14–0.15, (2) 0.28–0.30, (3) 0.22–0.25, (4) 0.19–0.22, (5) 0.19–0.22, (6) 0.19–0.21, (7) 0.25–0.28, (8) 0.12–0.17, (9) 0.26–0.28, (10) 0.25–0.28 and (11) 0.30. AL females: 2.41–2.62 mm. Female antennomere relative length/relative maximum width ratios: (1) 2, (2) 5.3, (3) 5.7, (4) 4.4, (5) 4.8, (6) 4.4, (7) 3.4, (8) 2.2, (9) 2.3, (10) 2.9 and (11) 3.2.
Pronotum (Figs 1, 2, 5) slightly wider than long, PW/PL: 1.07–1.18.
Elytra (Fig. 1) elongate, EL/EW: 1.46–1.64 in males, 1.44–1.54 in females. The length of the basal apophysis of the metanotum (alacrista) (Fig. 4) is approximately 9–14% of elytral length.
Spines along the lateral outer margin of protibia reaching approximately apical third of protibial length. Male protarsi slender, undilated (Fig. 1) and shorter or about as long as the pronotum, PRTL/PL: 0.78–0.97.
Aedeagus 0.74–0.83 mm long. Inner sac of median lobe with developed chitinized structures, as is illustrated (Figs 9, 10). Female genitalia as in illustrations (Figs 11, 12).
Biology: Subterranean species, so far known exclusively from caves and pits.
Distribution: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Visočica planina (Fig. 28).
This species was described from “Aus einer Grotte der Vysošica planina” (Reitter, 1912) and subsequently recorded from: Herzégovine (cavern.) (Jeannel, 1914); Cavernicole, Herzégovine: grottes du Vysočica planina (C. Setnik) (Jeannel, 1924); Yougoslavie (Herzégowine) (Laneyrie, 1967); BH (H: Visočica planina), endem. (Pretner, 1968); Bosnia Herzégovine (Guéorguiev, 1976); v jamach na Visočici v Hercegovini (Pretner, 1970); Bosnia, Herzegovina (Newton, 1998); Bosnie-Herzégovine: cavités du Visočica planina (Perreau, 2000); BH (Visočica planina) (Perreau, 2015); BiH (Visočica planina) (Hlaváč, Perreau & Čeplík, 2017); Buca del Viglie, Luka, Zavodnica, Visočica pl. (BiH) (Polak & Mulaomerović, 2021).
description: Published as part of Čeplík, Dávid, 2023, Redescription of the genus Antrosedes Reitter, 1912 (Insecta, Coleoptera, Leiodidae, Cholevinae, Leptodirini), pp. 523-536 in Zootaxa 5231 (5) on page 526, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5231.5.2, http://zenodo.org/record/7609484