Tentyria velox subsp. velox Chevrolat 1865
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 velox
Tentyria velox ssp. velox chevrolat, 1865

description: Tentyria velox ssp. velox Chevrolat, 1865 (Figs. 28, 62, 98, 133, 180, 214, 244)
Tentyria velox Chevrolat, 1865: 390; Reitter 1900: 170, Fuente 1934: 30, L̂bl & Smetana 2008: 34, 206, Martínez 2018: 58, Iwan & L̂bl 2020: 252. Tentyria curculionoides ssp. velox Chevrolat sensu Koch 1944a: 229; Epañol, 1956: 30 and 1960: 408. Tentyria curculionoides ssp. curculionoides f.t. sensu Viñolas 1986: 102–103 (specimens from Valladolid, Palencia and Zamora), Viñolas & Cartagena 2005: 276.
Types examined: The type was not found in Paris (MNHN, Chevrolat collection). In the MNCN there is a series of specimens caught in Valladolid (Spain) by Chevrolat & Bellier, donated to Mr. Pérez Arcas along with other insects of the same provenance (Pérez-Arcas 1865: 439). So that, we consider belonging to the typical series the specimens carrying the following labels: Valladolid, Bellier et Chevrolat 1864 (handwritten label) / MNCN_Ent, Nº Cat. 70855 (1♀, MNCN) (Fig.244); Tentyria velox? Chevr. Valladolid (handwritten label by Pérez Arcas) / Bellier! (back) / MNCN_Ent, Nº Cat. 70857 (1♁, MNCN); Tentyria velox, Valladolid (handwritten label by Pérez Arcas) / MNCN_Ent, Nº Cat. 70858 (1♁, MNCN); velox, Valladolid / MNCN_Ent, Nº Cat. 70856 / Tentyria velox, J.L. Bujalance det., 2011(1♁, MNCN); T. velox Chevr. / T. velox Valladolid / MNCN_Ent, Nº Cat. 70854 (1♁, MNCN); T. velox, Valladolid / Tentyria subrugosa Solier, 1835, J.L. Bujalance det. 2006 / M.N.C.N. MADRID / MNCN_Ent, Nº Cat. 70797 (1♀, MNCN).
Additional material: Historical material: Valladolid Spanien / Peirolerii / curculionoides ssp. velox Chevr., DET. C. KOCH / Sammlung, Adr. Schuster / Coll. Kraatz / D.G.M (1♁, NHMB); Vallad / Locus typ. Valladolid, det. Julio Ferrer (1♁, NHMB); Tentyria velox / Rsh / Rsh (= Rosenhauer), det. J. Ferrer / Hispania / 446 (1♁, NHMB); velox. Ch: Spain. V. Jenel. / F. Bates. 81-19. / British Museum / velox / Sammlung, Adr. Schuster / curculionoides velox Chevr., det. J. FERRER (1♁, NHMB); Palencia, Paganetti / Moor. / Peirol. / Sammlung Adr. Schuster / curculionoides velox Chevr., det. Julio Ferrer (1♁ and 1♀, NHMB).
Valladolid, Honquilana, VI.1987, Podlussány leg. (HMNH); Valladolid, Ataquines, 17.VII.1976, P. Bercedo leg. (1 ex, CJF).
Diagnosis: Black, bright tegument. Head, slightly longer than wide, usually with maximum width at the back of the eyes (Fig. 28), convex temples, sometimes the genae, are also enlarged, raised and surrounded by a depression that separates them from the disc. Very prominent, curved and sinuous supraorbital folds, rarely straight; the epistome more or less projected ahead and rounded, usually densely punctured and without clearly visible tooth; usually straight, narrow and moderately deep gular groove (Fig. 62); transverse, slightly convex pronotum (Fig. 98), about 1.4 times wider than long, with the base thickly flanged, curved, and generally more or less sinuate at the level of the rear angles; prosternal apophysis (Fig. 133) with parallel sides and rounded at apex; elongated oval elytra (Fig. 214), 2.75–3 times longer than pronotum, usually smooth, sometimes with streaked or slightly rough marks, with the punctures usually somewhat thinner than those of the pronotum; aedeagus (Fig. 180) with the parameres clearly longer than the phallobase and with sides slightly sinuous, middle lobe (penis) narrowed before the apex. Smooth, very bright, and clearly punctured ventral tegument.
Comments: T. velox Chevrolat, was misinterpreted by Koch (1944a) and Español (1956, 1960), who considered it a subspecies of T. curculionoides (Herbst), unknown taxon to both authors, as well as to Viñolas (1986) and Viñolas & Cartagena (2005). These last authors (2005) proposed the synonymy between T. velox and T. curculionoides, whose types had been confused in the NMHUB. However, they are very different species, both in external morphology and the conformation of the aedeagus.
Geographical distribution: Species described from the area around Valladolid and widespread by the North Plateau, in the provinces of Palencia (Koch 1944a) and Zamora (Español 1956, 1960).
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 page 48, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5320.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8203747