Tentyria espanoli 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 espanoli

description: Tentyria espanoli sp. nov. (Figs. 12, 47, 81, 117, 165, 168)
Tentyria interrupta ssp. heydeni sensu Español 1956:31.
Tentyria curculionoides ssp. interrupta sensu Viñolas 1986:103 (part).
Type material. Holotype (♁): Pontevedra, Cangas, Playa Siemens 22.VIII.1955, F. Español leg. / Tentyria heydeni F. Español det (CJF). Paratypes: carrying similar labels than the type (2 exx, CJF); La Lanzada (Pontevedra) 13.VIII.53, W. Steiner leg. / Tentyria curculionoides heydeni Haag, F. Español det. (1 ex MNCN); El Grove (Pontevedra) 5-6.VIII.53 / W. Steiner leg., T-53/ 2 exx / Tentyria curculionoides heydeni Haag, F. Español det. (1♀ and 1♁, MNCN); Vigo, L. Iglesias / MNCN _Ent, Nº Cat. 70853 (1♀, MNCN); Corrubedo (A Coruña) 27.III.1990, Jorge Iñiguez leg. (1♀ and 1♁, CJLB).
Description: Holotype (Fig. 198): Quite robust body; black intense and bright tegument. Size: 16.2 mm long and 6.9 maximum width in the elytra.
Head (Fig. 12) of 3 mm wide, sub-parallel sides, almost flat eyes; sub-truncated epistome; sinuous and well developed supraorbital folds, the space between the fold and the eye is not observable in dorsal view; dense, fine, but well-marked punctures; gular groove (Fig. 47) consisting in a shallow transverse depression, poorly delimited; filiform antennae, not surpassing the base of pronotum, 1 st antennomere robust, 2 nd small and somewhat longer than wide; 3 rd 3.3 times as long as the two next together, from 4 th (1.7 times longer than wide) to the 8 th also longer than wide, but decreasing progressively in length, 9 th almost as long as wide, 10 th slightly transverse and 11 th conical at the apex and slightly longer than wide.
Pronotum: (Fig. 81) large, convex and somewhat transverse; 1.35 times wider than long, with the maximum width in the middle (5 mm wide and 3.7 mm long); sides regularly and slightly curved from the apex to the base which is prolonged backward describing a short and somewhat sinuous curve before the posterior angles; margin of pronotum thick in the central lobe but thinned towards the rear angles, which are obtuse and well noticeable; punctures very fine, clearly smaller than in head and in elytra; prosternal apophysis (Fig. 117) broad, with sides parallel and the apex subtruncated in ventral view, not surpassing the procoxae; prosternum and propleurae smooth, very bright and finely punctured; protibiae not very graceful and sinuous in the inner edge, almost as long as the mesotibiae and both shorter than the metatibiae.
Elytra: convex, ovate, elongated, 1.5 times longer than wide (10.3 mm long and 6.9 mm wide), maximum width in the centre and similarly narrowed towards the base and the apex; superficially striated-rough; punctures bigger than in the pronotum and like those of head. The elytra 2.78 times longer and 1.38 times wider than the pronotum; well-indicated humeri; the base in open curve fitted to the base of the pronotum, with the margin irregular and interrupted next to the scutellum. Urosternites smooth, shiny, and finely punctured, the last one truncated it the apex.
Aedeagus (Fig. 165) 4.4 mm in length, parameters narrow and elongated, 1.32 times longer than the phallobase.
Paratypes: Length 14–16.2 mm (15.1 mm average; 15.9 mm males, 14.3 mm females); 6.1–6.9 mm maximum with of elytra (6.45 mm average 6.65 mm males, 6.25 mm females). Pronotum slightly transverse, 1.32–1.39 times wider than long (1.36 mm average in both sexes), and the maximum wide in the middle, 4.1–5.0 mm wide and 3.1–3.7 mm length. Elytra: 2.67–2.90 times longer than the pronotum (average 2.79 times), ovate and moderately elongate, 1.38-1.50 times longer than wide (average 1.46 times).
Aedeagus: 4.4–4.5 mm length (4.45 mm average, parameres 1.12-1.32 (1.22 average) longer than the phallobase.
Females of smaller and stubbier than the males.
Variability of the paratypes: The variability of the paratypes concerns the size; the shape of the pronotum, from sub-circular to sub-cordiform; the sculpture of the elytra, always more or less sub-striated and distinctly rough.
Differential diagnosis: T. espanoli sp. nov. is a species closely related, within its group, to T. heydeni Haag-Rutenberg and to T. interrupta Latreille; it differs from both in the larger average size, the colour of the integument, more intense and shinier black, and the size and shape of the aedeagus with the parameres clearly longer than the phallobase. Furthermore, it differs from T. heydeni Haag-Rutenberg by the pronotum, more convex and less cordiform, with less marked posterior angles, the elytra not so oval, proportionally longer and with a stronger sculpture.Also differentiated from T. interrupta Latreille by the epistome, truncated and less elongate; the pronotum, more convex, large, and transverse, with the posterior angles more evident; the male protibiae more robust and slightly sinuous on the inner edge; the elytral sculpture more marked and with larger punctures than those of the pronotum, and the humeral angles better indicated.
Comments: Español (1956) confounded this species with T. heydeni Haag-Rutenberg, whose identity was unknown to him. Viñolas (1986) and Viñolas & Cartagena (2005), considered it a synonym of T. interrupta Latreille, including it within the specific arrangement of T. curculionoides (Herbst), which was confused by these authors with an unpublished taxon so far (Tentyria velox ssp. serrana nov.).
Geographical distribution: Species recorded in the western coast of Galicia (Rías Bajas).
Etymology: Species named “ in memoriam ” of the great entomologist Dr. Francisco Español.
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 27-28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5320.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8203747