Tentyria faroensis 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 faroensis

description: Tentyria faroensis sp. nov. (Figs. 8, 43, 77, 113, 150, 161, 194)
Types examined: Holotype (♁): Portugal, Praia da Galé, (Albufeira) 13.VII.2007, J.L. Bujalance leg. (MNCN). Paratypes: same label than the type (1♁ and 1♀, CJLB). Same locality than the Type, 14.VII.2008, J.L. Bujalance leg. (1♀, CJLB). Tavira, Faro, Portugal 5-1978, J. Ferrer leg. (1♁, CJF). Portugal (Faro), Praia de Bordeira 04.VI.2001, SOLDATI rec. (1♁ CJF). Vila Real Sº Antonio (Dunas “ Pitfall ”) 20- 24.5.1985, Col. Artur Serrano, nº 11427 (2♀♀, NRMS).
Description: Holotype (Fig. 194), body somewhat elongated; 2.2 times long than wider. Black, dorsally not very shiny, brighter in ventral side. Size: 12 mm length and 5.4 mm maximum width in the elytra.
Head (Fig. 8): 2.7 mm maximal width at the base of the eyes which are slightly convex; supraorbital folds barely raised and the temples slightly converging backwards; epistome rounded and provided with a central tiny tooth; fine and dense punctures; gular groove (Fig. 43) consisting in a hollow in the middle, not well delimited. Filiform antennae, reaching but not surpassing the base of the pronotum; the 1 st antennomere robust, the 2 nd small and barely longer than broad, the 3 rd about 3.25 times longer than broad and almost as long as the next two gathered, from the 4 th (1.75 times longer than broad) to the 8 th longer than broad, but progressively decreasing in length; the 9 th almost as long as broad; the 10 th slightly transverse and the 11 th conical at the end and slightly longer than broad.
Pronotum (Fig. 77): feebly convex, transverse, 1.25 times broader than long, with the maximal width in the middle (4 mm broad and 3.2 mm long); sides curved equally closed at the base than at the apex, which are equal in with; sub-cordiform shape. The base of the pronotum is extended backwards in a central lobe, slightly bi-dentate, completely margined, and strongly sinuate before the posterior angles that are slightly obtuse and well noted. Fine and dense punctures, smaller than in the head; wide prosternal apophysis (Fig. 113), furrowed on the rear half, rounded towards the apex, and not surpassing the pro-coxae; pro-pleurae and pro-sternum with the surface smooth and somewhat bright, with small punctures, but well discernible; protibiae almost straight on its inner edge, as long as the mesotibiae, and both shorter than the metatibiae.
Elytra: very convex, elongated, not flattened on the disk, with almost imperceptible wrinkles; 2.34 times longer than the pronotum and with finer and more disperse punctures. Ovate, moderately elongated, and almost equal narrowed in the base than in the apex; dorsally they slope in abrupt decline towards the apex that is very blunt and with the lower and upper flange of the epipleure separated, and this latter slightly bent upwards being parallel to the horizontal plane. Well-marked humeri with the base barely incised and the basal margin very fine and almost discontinuous before the scutellum. Abdominal sternites smooth, not very bright and with fine and dense punctures; the last urosternite rounded at the apex (Fig. 150).
Aedeagus (Fig. 161) of 3.2 mm length, with the phallobase 1.46 times longer than the parameres which are very curved in lateral view.
Paratypes: Size 12–14.5 mm length (13.68 mm average) and 5.2–6.5 mm maximum width of the elytra (6 mm average).
Pronotum barely transverse, 1.25–1.37 times wider than long (1.3 times in average: 1.28 times in males and 1.35 in females), the maximum width in the middle (4–4.8 mm wide and 3.2–3.5 mm in length).
Elytra: 2.34–2.62 times longer than the pronotum (average 2.53 times), ovate and moderately elongated shape, 1.38–1.54 times long than wider (average 1.43 times).
Aedeagus: 3.2–3.5 mm length (1.33 mm average), phallobase 1.33–1.46 times longer than the parameres (1.40 times average).
Females often more robust, with the pronotum somewhat more transverse and with the sides in a more closed curve; protibiae more robust and straight in the inner edge, but they hardly differ from the males; elytra somewhat longer in relation to the pronotum.
Variability of the paratypes: The variability of the paratypes is fundamentally related to the median lobe of the base of pronotum with the teeth barely marked and scarcely backwards prolonged in two of the paratypes with more oriental distribution. Likewise, the elytra are narrow and slightly convex and with smoot and bright surface in the specimen coming from the Praia da Bordeira with a more western distribution.
Differential diagnosis: Species showing an exclusive arrangement of features: different of the group of T. gaditana, because the base of pronotum is trisinuated, the apex of the elytra very blunt and not elongated beyond the last abdominal sternite and by the conformation of the aedeagus. Different of the groups of T. sinuatocollis and T. curculionoides mostly in the shape of the head, with the sides non-parallel and the epistome rounded; protibia of male without apparent sexual dimorphism; the last abdominal sternite rounded at the apex and not truncated and by the conformation of the aedeagus; finally, from the group of T. mucronata, by the shape of the head with the eyes slightly convex, the posterior angles of the pronotum very well marked, the protibiae of the male without apparent sexual dimorphism, the base of the elytra regularly curved from the humeri, the shape of elytra in a more regular oval, the last abdominal sternite not truncated at the apex, and by the conformation of the aedeagus.
Geographical distribution: Species only recorded in the localities of Types, in the Faro district, southern and southwest coast of Portugal.
Etymology: Faroensis, referring to Faro district (Portugal).
Group of T. curculionoides
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 22-23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5320.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8203747