Tentyria pseudogaditana Bujalance & Ferrer & Cárdenas 2023, sp. nov.
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 pseudogaditana

description: Tentyria pseudogaditana sp. nov. (Figs. 27, 61, 97, 132, 179, 213)
Types examined: Holotype (♁): Islantilla pinar, Lepe (Huelva) 7.VII.2009, J.L. Bujalance leg. (MNCN). Paratypes: Islantilla, Lepe (Huelva) 13.VII.2009, J.L. Bujalance leg. (2♀♀ CJLB). La Antilla, Lepe, (Huelva) 15.VII.2009, J.L. Bujalance leg. (1♀ CJLB). Playa del Perdigón, Isla Cristina (Huelva) 24.XII.2000, CUCO, CORDOBA (3♁♁ and 1♀ CUCO). Isla de Bacuta, (eucaliptus) 29S-PB8022 (Huelva), 15.6.2006, J.J. López-Pérez leg. (1♁ nº1769 CJJL); idem, (arena playa) 29S-PB8022 (Huelva), 19.9.2006, idem (1♀ nº2052 CJJL,). Villa Réal, Dr. Martin / Algarve, Dr. Martin / MUSEUM PARIS, COLL. J. CHATANAY 1914/ MUSÉUM PARIS, COLL. CH. DEMAISON / Tentyria elongata sinuaticollis, Palmer det. 97 (1♀ MNHN). Huelva, Martínez! / M.N.C.N., MADRID / MNCN_Ent, Nº Cat. 70821 / Tentyria gaditana? Rosenhauer, 1856, J.L. Bujalance det. 2006 (1♀ MNCN).
Description: Holotype (Fig. 213), broad body; black, smooth, and shiny tegument, particularly in ventral side. Size 14 mm length and 6.5 mm maximum width in elytra.
Head (Fig. 27): short, with sub-parallel sides; 2.7 mm wide, basically like that of T. donanensis but with denser and thicker punctures; gular groove (Fig. 61) consisting of a deeper central hollow.
Convex, dull and transverse pronotum (Fig. 97); 1.44 wider than long, maximum width in the middle (4.6 mm wide and 3.2 mm long); the sides in closed curve forward and backward; the base scarcely protruding backward; posterior angles of pronotum obtuse and slightly marked; dense punctures, somewhat smaller than that of the head; wide prosternal apophysis (Fig. 132), sides sub-parallel, rounded at the end; propleurae and prosternum smooth and bright, punctures small but well discernible; protibiae not graceful and lightly shorter than metatibiae, and both of them clearly shorter than mesotibiae.
Smooth, ovate, and convex elytra, with punctures fine but evident, and moderately dense; 1.38 times longer than wide (9 mm long and 6.5 mm wide), and 2.81 times longer than the pronotum, sharpened at the apex and slightly narrowed towards the base that is slightly curved, with the humeral angles scarcely noticeable. Smooth, bright abdominal sternites and with fine and moderately dense punctation.
Aedeagus (Fig. 179) 3.5 in length, with the phallobase; 1.15 times longer than the parameres which are strangled at the base and narrowed from here, in straight or slightly sinuous line, to the apex which is very sharp.
Paratypes: Size 14–15.5 mm length (14.66 average, 14.25 mm males and 14.80 mm females) and 6.2–7.1 mm de maximum width of elytra (6.56 mm average, 6.50 mm males and 6.58 mm females).
Pronotum transverse, 1.33–1.47 times wider than length (1.40 times average: 1.44 times males and 1.39 times females), maximum width at the middle (4.4–5 mm wide and 3.2–3.5 mm long).
Elytra 2.57–2.88 times longer than the pronotum (average 2.77 times), shape in oval slightly elongated, 1.38– 1.51 times longer than wider (average 1.43 times).
Aedeagus of 3.30–3.46 mm in length (3.38 mm average), with the phallobase 1.15–1.20 times (1.17 average) longer than the parameres.
Females of average size somewhat higher than males. Pronotum slightly less transverse, elytra proportionally somewhat longer than in males.
Variability of paratypes: Some specimens show the pronotum less transverse, the base lightly protruding backward and somewhat sinuate before the posterior angles. Other specimens show the elytra narrowed, less chubby.
Differential diagnosis: Species close to T. donanensis and T. gaditana, being often difficult to differentiate without a study of the male genitalia. It differs to T. donanensis in the pronotum somewhat transverse, punctation denser and more noticeable. The base is broader, less protruding, and barely sinuate. Elytra, often more convex, chubby, and smooth, punctures more indicated, and base broader in opened arc. It differs from T. gaditana in the shape of elytra, sharpened at the apex, with the base cut in arc and the humeri more angulous; in the shape of the aedeagus which has the phallobase longer than the parameres, and in the parameres which are more curved.
Geographical distribution: Species only known from the littoral of the southwestern Iberian Peninsula, from the Odiel’s marshes and to the Guadiana estuary.
Etymology: In the specific epithet pseudogaditana, the greek prefix “ pseudo ” means false, imitation, because T. pseudogaditana is apparently similar and easily to confuse with the true T. gaditana.
Group of T. velox
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 47-48, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5320.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8203747