Tentyria eulipoides Koch 1944
Creators: name: Bujalance, José L.
name: Ferrer, Julio
name: Cárdenas, Ana M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Tenebrionidae
Tentyria
Tentyria eulipoides

description: Tentyria eulipoides Koch, 1944 (Figs. 16, 51, 84, 121, 141, 146, 169, 202, 237)
Tentyria eulipoides Koch, 1944a: 229–230; Español 1960: 409, L̂bl & Smetana 2008: 206; Martínez 2018: 58, Iwan & L̂bl 2020: 249.
Types examined: Holotype (♁) (Fig. 237): TYPUS, Tentyria eulipoides m., 1944 C. KOCH / Alcalá d. G. (de Guadaira) b. (bei) Sevilla 1931, leg. G. Frey (NHMB); Paratypes: TYPE / Gergel “Gelves” bei Sevilla / Sammlung A. dr. Schuster / gadit. (gaditana) / Gredosa (gredosana) / Tentyria eulipoides Koch, det. J.L. Bujalance, 2006 (1♁, NHMB); Syntypes (without type labels): Gergel bei Sevilla, gadit. / Samml. Adr. Schuster (2 exx, NHMB); Utrera, Melichar / subrugosa / Samml. Adr. Schuster (2 exx, NHMB); Granada: 5.62 / gaditana Rosenh. det. Reitter 1932 / Samml. A. Thery / (coll. Frey, NHMB); Hispania / Ronda / Melichar / subrugosa / Adr. Schuster Samml. (NHMB); Hispania / Melichar / subrugosa / Adr. Schuster Samml. (NHMB).
Additional material: Almería: Almería / M.N.C.N., MADRID (1♀, MNCN). Córdoba: Laguna de Tíscar, 30.IV.1985, Bujalance leg. (1♁, CJLB); Tentyria, 6, Córdoba, Mora leg. (reverse) / Col. Mr. Pérez Arcas / M.N.C.N., MADRID (1♀, MNCN); Fuente la Lancha, 28.II.2007, A. Castro Tovar leg. (1♀, CACT). Jaén: La Parcela, Linares, 26-1-1996, M.A. López Vergara leg. (1♀ and 1♁, CJLB); surroundings of the urbanization La Garza, Linares, 2.II.2013, A. Castro Tovar leg. (1♁, CACT); idem 16-4-2013, (10 exx, CACT); idem, 18.V.2013, M.A. López Vergara leg. (2 exx). Sevilla: Alcalá de Guadaira (Sevilla), IV-1909, Exp. del Museo / T. eulipoides Koch? / M.N.C.N., (2♁♁, in exhibition, MNCN); El Gandul, Alcalá de Guadaira, 2-3-2003, A. Linares leg. (1♁, CJLB); Puebla de Cazalla (Sevilla), IV-1909, Exp. del Museo / T. eulipoides Koch? / M.N.C.N., (1♁, MNCN). Carmona, IV.1965, J. Vives leg. (MCNB); Alcalá de Guadaira, Rio Guadaira, 25.IV.2015, F. Caro Pintos leg. (1♀, CJF).
Diagnosis: T. eulipoides Koch is a species very close T. bassii Solier, sharing the general body shape (Fig. 202), but differing in the greater average size; the punctures, finer and less dense; the head wider, and the eyes bigger and more convex (Fig. 16); less transverse and less well-defined gular groove (Fig. 51); the pronotum (Fig. 84) proportionally greater, with the base somewhat sinuous before le posterior angles; prosternal apophysis (Fig. 121) parallel-sided, with a central depression as a longitudinal groove, rounded apex, and slightly exceeding the procoxae; protibiae with clear sexual dimorphism (Fig. 141); male elytra generally more cylindrical oval and with barely indicated ribs or even smooth; female elytra wider and stubbier; the elytral apex spiny, formed by the convergence of the upper and lower margins of the epipleurae (Fig. 146). Aedeagus (Fig. 169) of larger median size and with the parameres narrower towards the apex.
Geographical distribution: Species present in the Guadalquivir River basin, described from the province of Sevilla (Alcalá de Guadaira, Gergel “Gelves” and Utrera), Granada and Málaga (Ronda). Español (1960) and Viñolas & Cartagena (2005) also cite this species in Córdoba and Ciudad Real. Also present in the province of Jaén. The record from Almeria, above mentioned, without collector’s label and that from Ciudad Real (Viñolas & Cartagena, 2005) need of verification, because according with Ferrer & Bujalance (2008), the authors confused this taxon.
Group of T. peiroleri
description: Published as part of Bujalance, José L., Ferrer, Julio & Cárdenas, Ana M., 2023, A taxonomic revision of the genus Tentyria Latreille, 1802 in the Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Islands (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), pp. 1-88 in Zootaxa 5320 (1) on pages 32-33, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5320.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8203747