Tentyria peiroleri subsp. peiroleri Solier 1835
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 peiroleri
Tentyria peiroleri ssp. peiroleri solier, 1835

description: Tentyria peiroleri ssp. peiroleri Solier, 1835 (Figs. 17, 52, 85, 122, 151, 170, 203, 238)
Tentyria peiroleri Solier, 1835: 357.
Types examined: Syntype (♁?) (Fig. 238), bearing the following labels: “ Peirolerii / Type Solier / MUSEUM PARIS, Coll. Solier, COLL. DE MARSEUL, 2842-90 / TYPE” (MNHN).
Additional material: Almeria: Hispania, Seidlitz leg. / Riksmuseum Stockholm (1♀, NHRMS); prolixa, Pto. Bacares / T. prolixa Rosenh. / T. prolixa / MNCN, MADRID (1♁, MNCN); S. de Bacares, rev. Yieru? / MNCN_Ent., Nº Cat. 70834 (1♀, MNCN); 16, Filabres / MNCN_Ent., Nº Cat. 70870 (1♁, MNCN). Granada: Llanos de Guadix, 30SVG92, 25.VI.1991, F.S. Piñero leg. (8♁♁ and 4♀♀, CFSP / 2♁♁ CJF); idem, 7.VI.1991 (1♁, CFSP); idem, 7.VI.1990 (1♁, CFSP); idem, 9.VI.1991 (2♀♀, CFSP); idem, 8.VII.1991, (1♀, CFSP); idem, 7.III.1990 (1♁and 1♀, CFSP / 1♁ and 1♀, CJF); idem, 7.XI.1990 (1♀, CFSP). Ladihonda, Guadix, 30SVG9730, 7.VI.1991, F.S. Piñero leg. (1♀, CFSP); idem, 25.VI.1991 (1♀, CFSP); idem, 7.VI.1991 (1♀, CFSP); idem 6.III.1992 (1♁, CFSP). Hernán Valle, Guadix, 30SVG9335, 7.III.1990, F.S. Piñero leg. (1♀, CFSP). Charches, Sª de Baza (SB9), 6.VI.1994, F.S. Piñero leg. (4♀♀, CFSP); idem, 20.VI.1994 (1♀, CFSP); idem, 26.III.1995 (1♀, CFSP). (21 exx in CFSP).
Diagnosis: Oval elongated body, black and shiny tegument (Fig. 203); broad head (Fig. 17), slightly angled or sub-rounded epistome, somewhat sinuous on the sides and slightly dentate at the apex; gular groove (Fig. 52) slightly deep and frequently in the form of open “V”; convex and slightly transverse pronotum (Fig. 85), with the sides in curve somewhat closed towards the base, obtuse but not well-defined rear angles; almost straight basal margin, barely sinuate before the posterior angles; punctures fine but dense and noticeable, similar to those of the head; prosternal apophysis (Fig. 122) depressed in the middle, widened between the coxae and tapering towards the apex which is generally slightly bent upward (in ventral view), barely extends beyond the procoxae; elytra very finely punctured, short and ovate, particularly in females, with the sides sub-parallel, scarcely narrowed toward the base and the apex, sometimes with signs of striation; the base is straight and well margined; rounded humeri and with the last abdominal sternite slightly sinuate at the apex (Fig. 151). Aedeagus (Fig. 170) about 3.5 mm long on average, with the parameres just longer than the phallobase, with the sides parallel until the apex.
Comments: The specific epithet “ peiroleri ” instead of “ peirolerii ” is a transcription error since it does not correspond to the handwritten text of label attached to the type. T. peiroleri Solier, 1835 was a misinterpreted species since its description, because the types of Solier were not examined and the locality was not certainly known (Solier 1835).
The record from “Málaga” (Rosenhauer 1856) is a mistake as Kraatz (1865) mentioned; at the same time, this last author confounded this species with another undescribed species coming from “Castilla la Nueva” (T. castiliana Koch 1945 stat. nov.); Reitter (1900), included it among the unknown, as from “Hispania?”; Gebien (1937), misinterpreted it as a species from the Iberian Levante; Koch (1944a), following Gebien (1837) and Kraatz (1865), established two subspecies, one of the Spanish East (nominal form) and the subspecies T. peiroleri castiliana Koch, from the Peninsular Centre. Español (1960) accepted the conclusions of Koch (1944a); Viñolas (1986) and Viñolas & Cartagena (2005), refused the validity of the subspecies proposed by Koch (1944a) and considered the whole of them (including T. aragonica Koch 1944) as synonymy, establishing a “variable species”, which would extend for much of the eastern half of the Iberian Peninsula, from Lleida to Seville. As it will be seen below, none of these taxa corresponds to the Solier type (1835), which, as this author believed, comes from southern Spain, and more specifically from the interior of the provinces of Granada and Almeria. T. peirolei Solier is a very variable species; the typical forms are in the Hoya de Guadix, being the specimens coming from the Sierra de Baza, somewhat bigger (especially the elytra) and with a more transverse pronotum, while those of Sª de los Filabres (Almería) are smaller and brighter.
Designation of the Lectotype of Tentyria peiroleri Solier, 1835, present designation: The unique syntype fitting the Solier’s description (1835) is designated Lectotype (Fig. 238). It bears the following labels: handwritten label “Peirolerii” / label “ Type Solier ” / MUSEUM PARIS, Coll. Solier, COLL. DE MARSEUL, 2842-90 / red label “TYPE”.
Geographic distribution: Andalusian species, typical of the interior of Betic chains, specifically from the “Hoya de Guadix”, extending eastward through the Sierra de Baza and the Sierra de Filabres.
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 33-34, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5320.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8203747