Lesteva mateui Jarrige 1954
Creators: name: Shavrin, Alexey V.
name: Zanetti, Adriano
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Lesteva
Lesteva mateui

description: Lesteva (s.str.) mateui Jarrige, 1954
(Figs. 8, 13, 23–28)
Lesteva mateui Jarrige, 1954: 77
Lesteva cobosi Coiffait, 1970: 110
Lesteva cobosi: Outerelo 1980: 54, Lohse 1987: 135, Gamarra & Outerelo 2013: 355
Lesteva cazorlana Lohse, 1987: 135 syn.n.
Type material examined. Paratypes of Lesteva mateui Jarrige, 1954, 2 ♀♀: ‘ Corral del Veleta Sierra Nevada 3200 m J. Mateu’ <handwritten>, ‘PARATYPE’ <printed in red> (MHNH).
Holotype of Lesteva cobosi Jarrige, 1954, ♂ [The aedeagus is glued on the separate card]: ‘ ♂ ’ <handwritten>, ‘F[uen]te. Bermejo. Jaén Iruela S [ierra]. Cazorla Mateau-Cobos coll.’ <handwritten>, ‘ Holotype’ <red, printed>, ‘ Lesteva (s.str.) cobosi Coiff. H. Coiffait det 1970’ <handwritten> (MHNH). Paratype, 1 ♀: same data as the holotype except for red printed label ‘Paratype’ (MHNH).
Holotype of Lesteva cazorlana Lohse, 1987, ♂ [without right antennomeres 6-11]: ‘ ESPAGNE JAEN | Sierra de Cazorla | Guadalquivir | (source) 25-VII-71 | A. SENGLET’ <printed>, ‘Holotypus’ <red, handwritten>, ‘ Lesteva | cazorlana | n.sp.’ <handwritten>, ‘Coll. | G.A. Lohse | MHNG-1994’ <printed>, ‘ HOLOTYPE | Lesteva | cazorlana sp. n. | Det. Lohse 1987 ’ <red, printed>, ‘MHNG | ENTO | 00087325’ <printed>, ‘ Lesteva (s.str.) | mateui Jarrige, 1954 | Shavrin A.V. det. 2021’ <printed> (MHNG)
Material examined. SPAIN: ANDALUSÍA: 1 ♂: Albacete, Mundo River, Chorros del Rio Mundo. 01.06.2002. I. Ribeira & A. Cieslak leg. (cA); 1 ♂, 1 ♀: Jaén, Iznatoraf, Sima los Tejos. 30.10.2005. (cA); 3 ♂♂: Cazorla Barranco de Teatinos. 1300 m a.s.l. 25.06.1975. (cZan); 5 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀: Sierra de Cazorla. 1400 m a.s.l. 06.10.1993. P. Wunderle leg. (cA, cW, cSh); 2 ♂, 5 ♀♀: same data. 20.03.1974 (MHNG); 3 ♂♂, 1 ♀: same Mts., Torre del Vinagre. 14.05.1975. H. Fülscher leg. (MHNG); 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀: Guadalquivir (source), 25.07.1971. A. Senglet leg. (MHNG); 9 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀: Sierra Nevada, Capileira, Rio Nante, 36°99’N - 3°35’W. 1550 m a.s.l. 08- 09.05.2014. A.V. Shavrin leg. (cSh); 1 ♂, 4 ♀♀: same locality. 1600 m a.s.l. 22.03.1994. V. Assing leg. (cA); 1 ♂: same data. 1900 m a.s.l. 23.03.1994. (cA); 6 ♂♂, 1 ♀: same data. 1500 m a.s.l. 28.09.1993. P. Wunderle leg. (cA, cW, MHNG); 1 ♀: Sierra Nevada, Laguna de las Yeguas. 2900 m a.s.l. 18.05.2005. A. Anichtchenko leg. (cSh); 1 ♀, 6 exs.: same locality. 17.08.1966 (MHNH); 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀: Bano San Juan. 2900 m a.s.l. 18.08.1966. G. Ledoux leg. (MHNH); 1 ♂, 2 ♀♀: same data. 2600 m a.s.l. 08.1967. G. Ledoux leg. (MHNH); 1 ♂: ‘ Sierra Nevada 17.7.[18]79. D.S. ’, ‘ Sharp Coll. 1905-303.’ (MHNG); 1 ♂, 1 ♀: ‘ Sa Nevada Hisp. VI.50 G.P. ’ (MHNH); 2 ♂♂: Güejar-Sierra, Loma de la Cuna de los Cuartos. 1900-2100 m a.s.l. 14.06.1991 D. Wrase leg. (cZan); 1 ♂: Málaga, Las Navas de San Luis. M. Cobos leg. (MHNH); LOCALITY NOT SPECIFIED: 1 ♂ [identified by G.A. Lohse]: ‘ Spain. ’ (BMNH).
Redescription. Measurements (n=15): HW: 0.70–0.92; HL: 0.50–0.62; OL: 0.20–0.26; LT: 0.11–0.15; AL (mean): 2.30; PL: 0.63–0.85; PWMax: 0.84–0.96; PWMin: 0.59–0.70; EL: 1.38–1.65; ESL: 1.11–1.45; EW: 1.23– 1.53; MTbL (averaged): 1.00; MTrL (averaged): 0.60; AW: 1.14–1.44; AedL: 0.67–0.75; FL: 2.87–3.05; TL: 3.00– 4.80 (holotype of L. mateui: 4.20).
Body yellow-brown to brown, with slightly paler elytra; antennae and legs yellow to yellow-brown, with darker apical portion of femora and sometimes tibia; mouthparts and tarsi yellow. Punctation of head dense and fine, slightly larger in middle and denser between longitudinal depressions and eyes, distance between punctures in middle about as broad as nearest puncture; neck with punctation similar to that of middle portion of head; punctation of pronotum denser and sometimes finer than that of head, slightly sparser in medioapical and mediobasal portions; scutellum with very fine and moderately dense, irregular punctation; punctation of elytra distinctly sparser and coarser than that of pronotum. Habitus as in Fig. 13.
Head with markedly convex middle portion and very deep longitudinal depressions; eyes small, about twice as long as temples; distance between ocelli markedly shorter than distance between ocellus and posterior margin of eye. Antennae reaching anterior third or middle length of elytra when reclined, with long antennomeres 4–10; antennomeres 3–7 of approximately equal length, 8–10 slightly shorter and broader than 7.
Pronotum 1.1–1.3 times as broad as long, markedly broader than head, usually very wide in anterior portion.
Elytra distinctly broader than long, about twice as long as pronotum, significantly widened apicad.
Basal metatarsomere slightly longer than combined length of tarsomeres 2–3 and distinctly longer than apical metatarsomere.
Male. Apical margin of abdominal tergite VIII convex. Apical margin of abdominal tergite VIII concave. Aedeagus with moderately wide basal portion, gradually narrowing toward median lobe and slightly widened in apical third, with sharply narrowed apical portion and subacute apex; parameres nearly reaching apex of median lobe; internal sac long and moderately wide (Figs. 23, 25, 27). Lateral aspect of aedeagus as in Figs. 24, 26, 28.
Female. Apical margins of abdominal tergite VIII and sternite VIII round.
Comparative notes. Regarding body, size, coloration, the punctation of the forebody, the proportions of the antennomeres, and the shape of the elytra, L. mateui is similar to L. mariei (see above), from which it is distinguished by slightly longer elytra, a narrower median lobe with a differently shaped apical portion, the length of the parameres, and a different structure of the internal sac.
Distribution. The species is distributed in South Spain (Fig. 8).
Natural history. Specimens were collected at elevations from 1300 to 2900 m a.s.l. The specimens from Rio Nante (Sierra Nevada) were taken from wet mosses near the confluence of a stream and a river.
Remarks. Lesteva mateui was originally described from several localities of Sierra Nevada. Lesteva cobosi was described from Sierra de Cazorla (Coiffait 1970) and later synonymized with L. mateui by Lohse (1987). In the same article, Lohse presented a new species without description: L. cazorlana Lohse, 1987, referring to specimens with somewhat larger eyes and a longer median lobe, which had been identified by Coiffait as L. mateui and illustrated by him in Figs. 3 g-i (Coiffait 1970). Lohse designated the specimen from his collection (see above) as the holotype of L. cazorlana. A study of material of this morphologically variable species revealed no significant differences between specimens from different localities. The proportions of the longitudinal length of the eyes in relation to the length of the temples, the width of the pronotum, and the apical portion of the median lobe may vary even in material from the same locality (Figs. 23, 25). Thus, L. cazorlana is synonymized with L. mateui.
description: Published as part of Shavrin, Alexey V. & Zanetti, Adriano, 2021, Review of the genus Lesteva Latreille, 1797 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae Anthophagini) of the Iberian Peninsula, pp. 401-427 in Zootaxa 4966 (4) on pages 416-417, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4966.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4738667