Tentyria curculionoides sensu Steven 1828
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 curculionoides

description: Tentyria curculionoides (Herbst, 1799) (Figs. 9, 44, 78, 114, 162, 195, 229)
Pimelia curculionoides Herbst, 1799: 58–59, T. CXXI, Fig. 2; Scĥnherr (1806: 141).
Tentyria curculionoides (Herbst) Schaum 1862: 69, Kraatz 1865: 143, Reitter 1900: 170 (specimens from Portugal), Fuente 1934: 29, L̂bl & Smetana 2008: 207, Martínez 2018: 58, Ivan & L̂bl 2020: 249.
Tentyria curta Steven, 1828: 92 Schaum 1862: 69 syn.
Tentyria curculionoides ssp. jordani Koch 1944a:229 syn. nov.
Types examined: Nine syntypes of Tentyria curta Steven. Seven of them carrying the following labels: curta Stev. (old handwritten label) / 45572 (old label) / Hist.-Coll. (Coleoptera), Nr. 45572, Patria? Zool. Mus. Berlin (1♀, NMHUB); Tentyria curta Stev., Hist. -Coll. (Coleoptera), Nr. 45572, Patria? Zool. Mus. Berlin (4♀♀ and 2♁♁ NMHUB, one of the females correspomd to T. bassii Sol.). The remainder two syntypes carry the following labels: Tentyria curta Stev. var., Lusitan, Hist.-Coll. (Coleoptera), Nr. 45573, Zool. Mus. Berlin / var?, Lusit. (old handwritten square) / 45573 (old label) / (1♁ NMHUB). Tentyria curta Stev. var., Lusitan, Hist.-Coll. (Coleoptera), Nr. 45573, Zool. Mus. Berlin (1♁ NMHUB).
Syntype of Tentyria curculionoides ssp. jordani Koch (♁): TYPUS Tentyria curculionoides ssp. jordani Koch 1944 / Portug. Praïa das Macas, Collares (Colares), K. Jordan / Tentyria andalusica Kr. (1♁ NHMB).
Additional material: Pimelia curculionoides / Lusit / Schh (= Sch ̂nherr) / Rickmuseum Stockholm / Naturhistorika Riksmuseet Stockholm (1♀?, NRMS) Naturhistorika Riksmuseet Stockholm (1♀, NRMS); Portugal, Praia do Meco, Sesimbra, IV.1980, T. Branco leg. (CJF); Praia do Meco, Sesimbra 5.IV.2010, A. Castro Tovar leg. (4♁♁ and 1♀, CACT); Praia do Cresmina, Cascais 5.IV.2010, A. Castro Tovar leg. (1♀, CACT); Lagoa de Albufeira, Sesimbra, 17.IX.1982, A. Zuzarte leg. (2♁♁ CJLB), idem (7 exx, NRMS); Cabo Raso, Cascais (MNHN); MNCN_ Ent, Nº Cat. 70861 and 70862 (2 exx, MNCN).
Diagnosis: Black, usually very bright, and finely punctured tegument (Fig. 195). Head (Fig. 9) with subparallel sides, stronger and denser punctures than in the rest of the body; temples not converging backward; small and barely convex eyes. Truncated, rarely rounded often trapezoidal epistome, exceptionally with a small, almost imperceptible, tooth in the middle. Supraorbital fold slightly prominent and separated from the eye in dorsal view. Long antennae, reaching the base of pronotum, the third antennomere approximately 3.5 times longer than wide. Gular groove usually consisting in a simple depression, often transverse (Fig. 44).
Suborbicular, clearly transverse pronotum (Fig. 78), sides very curved and maximum width in the middle; obtuse posterior angles, hardly or not observable in dorsal view; the base usually finely margined; scarcely prolonged backwards. Prosternal apophysis rounded at the end and folded between the procoxae (Fig. 114). Male protibiae hardly longer than those of the female.
Wide, ovate elytra, the maximum width in the middle; commonly very convex and stubby; finely punctured; elytra striated or striated-rough, commonly with broad, irregular, and poorly enhanced ribs, sometimes vestigial. Obtuse humeri, with the base margined and always curved and fitted to the base of the pronotum. The last urosternite is truncated (Fig. 149) in straight line or slightly sinuous.
Robust aedeagus (Fig. 162), with the middle lobe thick and narrowing before the apex, parameres with the sides non-parallel, converging at the end, as long as the phallobase.
Comments: Species historically confused with other taxa; described from Portugal (not from “ Spain ” as Viñolas & Cartagena (2005) wrongly indicated) and unknown by Solier (1835).
This taxon that was iconographed in the description of Herbst (1799), has been misinterpreted by several authors, due to confusion in the cataloguing of the Herbst and Steven types in the Berlin Museum. In the historical collections, the identification label was placed ahead of the series of specimens belonging to the same species, and not above or below each of them. Sometimes, to the first specimen was attached an identification of the record number corresponding in the collection’s book, remaining without label the rest of specimens. This procedure has led to numerous errors in labelling or relocation of the specimens after being removed for study. This type of error is reflected in the catalogue of records of the Berlin Museum where the syntypes of T. platyceps Steven, a species that inexplicably does not appear in the catalogue, were inscribed as Tentyria curculionoides Herbst no. 45574, after Tentyria curta Steven no. 45572/45573. These errors are confirmed by the labels on some specimens, which were described in detail by Steven (1828).
Schaum stated that the typical series of P. curculionoides Herbst were in the Berlin Museum and are the same Portuguese species that Steven obtained in the MNHUB and described as T. curta (see Kraatz 1865, pp. 141).
Steven (1828) confused T. curculionoides (Herbst) with an unpublished species from Cádiz, next to Algeciras (T. striatorugosa sp. nov.), with the pronotum bisinuate and prolonged in middle and striated-rough elytra seemed to the illustration of Pimelia curculionoides published by Herbst (1799).
This error led Steven (1828) to describe Tentyria curta with specimens from the Berlin Museum, not realising that these specimens match the description, locality, and iconography of T. curculionoides Herbst (1799).
Schaum (1862) established the synonymy between T. curculionoides (Herbst) and T. curta Steven, confirmed later by Kraatz (1865).
Koch (1944a) confused T. curculionoides (Herbst) with T. heydeni Haag-Rutenberg, which in turn was unknown to himself (Español 1960). This error led Koch (1944a) to describe T. curculionoides ssp. jordani, from a specimen of the true T. curculionoides (Herbst). He also established another subspecies, T. curculionoides ssp. velox Chevrolat. However, as stated above, T. velox constitutes its own group, well separated from T. curculionoides. Español (1960) and Viñolas & Cartagena (2005, Fig. 356b) carried over the errors of Koch (1944a) confusing T. curculionoides (Herbst) with specimens belonging to the T. velox group.
Geographic distribution: Portugal: Only known from the coast of Lisbon and north-west of the district of Setubal, going inland following the fluvial courses.
Designation of the Lectotype of Tentyria curta Steven, 1828, present designation:
We consider necessary to designate Lectotype to give stability to the highly confused taxonomy of this species. We designate Lectotype of Tentyria curta Steven, 1828 the unique specimen that carries the historic label described by Steven (1828) “var. Lusit.” referring to its provenance (Fig. 229a). In addition, the specimen has other old label with the registration number “45573”, and a modern label “Hist.-Coll. (Coleoptera), Nr. 45573, Tentyria curta Stev. var. Lusitan., Zool. Mus. Berlin ”; seven of the other eight specimens are designated Paralectotypes (Fig. 229b).
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 23-25, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5320.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8203747