Pogonus (Pogonus) littoralis
Creators: name: Muñoz-Santiago, José
name: Ortuño, Vicente M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Pogonus
Pogonus littoralis

description: Pogonus (Pogonus) littoralis (Duftschmid, 1812)
Figs 2B, 3G, 5A
Carabus littoralis Duftschmid, 1812: 183.
Pogonus pilipes Germar, 1817: 193.
Pogonus aeruginosus Stephens, 1828: 107.
Pogonus provincialis Carret, 1903: 135.
Diagnoses
Body tegument, and commonly first antennomere, bronze. Pronotum cordiform and sub-transverse; anterior region with tenuous punctuation. Elytra parallel or sub-parallel; up to 3 setigerous pores in the 3 rd interstria.
Material examined
SPAIN • 1 ♀; Alicante, Elche, El Hondo; 21 Nov. 1988; J.M. Beltrán leg.; VMO • 2 ♂♂; Alicante, Salinas de Bonmatí; 21 Jul. 1986; V.M. Ortuño leg.; VMO • 1 spec.; Cádiz, Palmones; 29 Apr. 1976; J. Ramírez leg.; MNCN • 1 spec.; same collection data as for preceding; 6 Jul. 1976; J. Ramírez leg.; MNCN • 1 ♀; Cádiz, Conil de la Frontera; 29 Aug. 1998; J. Navarro leg.; VMO • 1 ♂, 1 ♀; Cádiz, Playa de Sancti Petri; 1 Apr. 1987; V.M. Ortuño leg.; VMO • 2 specs; Cádiz, San Roque • 20 Jul. 1974; J. Ramírez leg.; MNCN • 4 specs; Cádiz, Zahara de los Atunes; 24 Apr. 1976; J. Ramírez leg.; MNCN • 1 ♀; Huelva; Cardiel leg.; MNCN • 1 spec.; Málaga, Sierra de las Nieves; 22 Jun. 1966; Ferrer leg.; MNCN • 2 ♂♂; Mallorca; Mas de Xaxars leg.; MNCN • 1 ♂, 1 ♀; Mallorca, Pollensa; H.J. Jorda leg.; MNCN.
Description
Habitus (Fig. 2B). Length: 5.5–6.5 mm. Antennae brown except the first antennomere. Palps testaceous, with the basal half of the last palpomere darkened. Lateral sulcus of the pronotum slightly widened. Legs testaceous. Median lobe of the aedeagus scarcely curved, with the apex little developed (Fig. 3G).
Chorology
Species widely distributed along the Palaearctic Region (Compte Sart 1968, Ratti 1983; Tamadouni & Arahou 2016; Bousquet 2017).
Ibero-Balearic distribution (Fig. 5A): in the Iberian Peninsula, it is present along the southern Atlantic coast, in the meridional extreme, at some localities of the Mediterranean coast and in saline interior environments of Albacete (SE Spain). We examined collection material from the Sierra de las Nieves
National Park (Málaga, SE Spain), a new record that could not been represented in the distribution map. In the Balearic Islands, it is known from Mallorca and Menorca.
Biology
There is few published information about the biology of this species. As in the case of P. riparius, Ratti (1994) suggested that, in some populations along the Adriatic coast, the different life phases of P. littoralis can overlap in the same year, so it cannot be exclusively considered an annual species.
Bibliographic Ibero-Balearic records
Andújar et al. 2002; Baehr 1986; Champion 1898; Jeanne 1968, 1978; López-Pérez et al. 2014; Putzeys 1874; Serrano et al. 2015, 2021; Zaballos & Jeanne 1994.
description: Published as part of Muñoz-Santiago, José & Ortuño, Vicente M., 2022, Revision of the tribe Pogonini (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Trechinae) from the Ibero-Balearic region, pp. 75-109 in European Journal of Taxonomy 846 (1) on pages 94-95, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.846.1967, http://zenodo.org/record/7277247