Tentyria lateritia Reitter 1900
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 lateritia

description: Tentyria lateritia Reitter, 1900 (Figs. 7, 42, 76, 112, 160, 193, 228)
Tentyria lateritia Reitter, 1900:169.
Types examined: Only one syntype available carrying the following labels: Algarve, Maltzan / C. Vincent, 28/379 (28.3.1879) / nov. sp! / lateritia m. Syntypus (SDEI).
Additional material: Portugal, Algarve, Sagres VII.1962, H. Coiffait leg. / Museum Paris, 1985, Coll. H. Coiffait / Tentyria elongata sinuaticollis Rosenh., Palmer det. 97 (1♀, MNHN); Cabo São Vicente Sagres, 25.3.91, Bastazo & Vela leg. (1♁, CB & V); Sagres 24.4.1978, A. Zuzarte leg. (4♀♀, CJF); Portugal, Algarve, Cap. St. Vicent, VII.1970, H. Coiffait / Muséum Paris, 1985, Coll. H. Coiffait / Tentyria emarginata Kr., F. Español det. (1♁ and 1♀, MNHN); Sagres 30.8.78, nº 912, Pilar leg. (1♁, CJF); Bordeira, Algarve, 25.IV.2005, I. Silva leg. (CJF). Portogallo: Lagos, Novak, 12.IX.11 / Tentyria lateritia Rtt. / 530 (1♀ NHMB); Lagos Lu. Novak 9-911 / lateritia / Sammlung Adr. Schuster (1♁ NHMB); Lagos Lu. Novak 9-911 / lateritia / Winkler / Sammlung Adr. Schuster (1♁ NHMB); Playa de Sagres 3.4.2010, A. Castro Tovar leg. (2♁♁ and 1♀ CACT).
Diagnosis: Body stubby (Fig. 193), about 13.5 mm long on average, tegument finely punctured; head (Fig. 7) with small, flat, subparallel-sided eyes; epistome subrounded or truncate at its anterior border; gular groove poorly delimited, consisting of a shallow central depression (Fig. 42). Pronotum (Fig. 76) more finely punctured than head and elytra; strongly transverse, pseudo-pentagonal in shape, the basal lobe as in T. subcostata and usually not marginate; prosternal apophysis (Fig. 112) subparallel-sided and depressed medially. Male protibiae with straight inner edge, like female ones. Elytra generally wide and convex, becoming very stubby, smooth, or barely striated or wrinkled. Aedeagus (Fig. 160), with the middle lobe thick and strongly narrowed before the apex, the parameres no subparallel but progressively narrowed from the base to the apex, which is very sharp.
Comments: T. lateritia Reitter is very close to T. subcostata Solier (= Tentyria emarginata Kraatz syn.). It was cited by Gebien (1910, 1937), and inexplicably overlooked by Koch (1944a); Español (1960), unknowing T. lateritia Reitter, considered that it was a synonymy of T. emarginata Kraatz. Viñolas (1986), Palmer (1998) and Viñolas & Cartagena (2005) agreed with Español (1960). However, T. lateritia differs from T. subcostata in the pronotum, which is very transverse and pseudo-pentagonal; protibiae, without apparent sexual dimorphism; broad and very convex elytra, commonly stubby, and aedeagus, with the parameres progressively narrowed from the base to the apex, which is very sharp. Likewise, the median lobe (penis) is thickened between the parameres and strongly narrowed before the apex.
Designation of the Lectotype of Tentyria lateritia Reitter, 1900, present designation:
The unique syntype available (Fig. 228) is the specimen carrying the following labels: “ Syntypus / Algarve, Maltzan / C. Vincent, 28/3 79 / nov. sp! / lateritia m. Type”, preserved in Coll. Heyden (SDEI). Hereby, this specimen is designated Lectotype of Tentyria lateritia Reitter, 1900, to support the current taxonomic validity of this species.
Geographic Distribution: Only known from the southern west of Portugal, in the surroundings of San Vicente Cap.
Group of T. faroensis
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 21-22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5320.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8203747