Pogonistes gracilis
Creators: name: Muñoz-Santiago, José
name: Ortuño, Vicente M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Pogonistes
Pogonistes gracilis

description: Pogonistes gracilis (Dejean, 1828)
Figs 1B, 3B, 4B
Pogonus gracilis Dejean, 1828: 18.
Diagnoses
Tegument brown with bronze sheen; legs and antennae testaceous, contrasting with the rest of the body. Pronotum cordiform, with a marked sinuosity; anterior angles with 1–3 short and fine setae. Elytra subparallel slightly convex.
Material examined
SPAIN • 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀; Álava, Laguna de Carravalseca; 23 Mar. 1995; J.M. Marcos leg.; VMO • 1 ♂; Alicante, Calpe; 10 Apr. 1989; J.M. Beltrán leg.; VMO • 1 ♂; Alicante, Elche, El Hondo; 6 Mar. 1988; J.M. Beltrán leg.; VMO • 1 ♂; Alicante, Salinas de Calpe; 19 Apr. 1934; C. Bolívar leg.; MNCN • 9 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀; Alicante, Urbanova; 21 Apr. 1988; VMO • 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; 28 Apr. 1988; VMO • 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; 2 Jun. 1995; V.M. Ortuño leg.; VMO • 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; 16 May 1996; VMO • 1 ♂; same collection data as for preceding; 25 May 2001; VMO • 1 ♂; Alicante, Santa Pola; 2 Mar. 1983; T.G. Sempere leg.; VMO • 1 ♂; Cádiz, Conil de la Frontera, El Palmar; 29 Aug. 2001; J. Navarro leg.; VMO • 1 ♂, 1 ♀; Huelva; Cardiel leg.; MNCN • 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀; Málaga, Fuente de Piedra; 3 Jun. 1987; J. Barandica leg.; VMO • 25 ♂♂, 34 ♀♀; Toledo, Villacañas; 22 May 1934; C. Bolívar leg.; MNCN.
Description
Habitus (Fig. 1B). Length: 4.0–5.0 mm. Head with a similar colour to the body tegument. Anterior angles of the pronotum obtuse and barely protruding. Base of the pronotum clearly narrower than the anterior margin of the elytra; the punctuation of the base is hidden by longitudinal clefts, so the surface of this region presents a striated appearance. Elytra punctuation deep. Median lobe of the aedeagus (Fig. 3B) narrower and with the apex more developed than in P. testaceus.
Chorology
Mediterranean coast of South Europe, from Spain to Greece (including Malta) and North Africa (Compte Sart 1968; Magrini & Schembri 1997; Bousquet 2017).
Ibero-Balearic distribution (Fig. 4B): in the Iberian Peninsula, the species is present discontinuously along the Mediterranean coast, from Cádiz to Tarragona (Spain), and in saline localities of the Ebro valley (NE Spain) and the Southern Sub-plateau (SE Spain). The species has been reported, with no precision, from Algarve (SW Portugal; Zaballos & Jeanne 1994), Los Monegros Desert (NE Spain; Vives & Vives 1978a, 1981, 1999), saltmarshes of Alicante (E Spain; Vives & Vives 1978a) and a saltmarsh in Toledo (SE Spain) (Vives & Vives 1981). We examined collection material from Huelva (SW Spain, with no precise locality), a territory from which P. gracilis has never previously been reported. In the Balearic Islands, Pogonistes gracilis is present in Mallorca, Menorca and Ibiza.
Biology
The species inhabits coastal and interior regions equally (Bolívar 1919; see Vives & Vives 1978a, 1978b, 1981). Imagoes are active during spring, principally from March to July, but some records are dated from other months such as November (Andújar et al. 2002). Pogonistes gracilis can be found in direct contact with water when it takes refuge under the rocks on the shores, in damp and saline environments where it occurs (Ortuño & Marcos 2003).
Bibliographic Ibero-Balearic records
Aistleitner & Lencina 2018; Andújar et al. 2002; Baehr 1988; Compte Sart 1968; Jeanne 1968, 1978; Ortiz et al. 1989; Ortuño & Marcos 2003; Serrano et al. 1990, 2015, 2021; Vives & Vives 1986, 1978a, 1978b.
description: Published as part of Muñoz-Santiago, José & Ortuño, Vicente M., 2022, Revision of the tribe Pogonini (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Trechinae) from the Ibero-Balearic region, pp. 75-109 in European Journal of Taxonomy 846 (1) on pages 83-86, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.846.1967, http://zenodo.org/record/7277247