Ischnomera tenietensis
Creators: name: Bologna, Marco A.
name: Poloni, Riccardo
name: Vázquez, Xavier A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Oedemeridae
Ischnomera
Ischnomera tenietensis

description: Ischnomera tenietensis (Abeille de Perrin, 1896)
(Figs. 1b, d, 2c, d, h, 3b, 7a)
Asclera tenietensis Abeille de Perrin, 1896: 283
New records. Morocco: 1 ex. Ceuta, 35.883 -5.3, 14.IV.1930 (MZB); 1 ex., idem, 23.IV.1929 (MZB); 1 ex., Rif, Bab Chiquer, Ketama, 34.85 -4.6, VI.1932, Bolívar (MCNM); 2 xx., Rif, Ketama, Zoco Telata [=Tleta Rissana], 35.217 -5.95, VI.1932, Escalera (MCNM); 1 ex., Kenitra, 34.267 -6.6, 2.V.1926, H. Lindberg, (MZUH); 4 exx. Azrou, 33.433 -5.217, 15.V:1925 (MCNM); 1 ex., Aïn Leuh (prop Azrou), 33.283 -5.385, 17. III.1990 (CT); 1 ex., Ifrane env. Moyen Atlas 1400-1600m, 23/05/2006, L. Saltini (CS); 1 ex., idem, M. Malmusi legit (CP); Haute atlas, Tizi-n-Test, cc. Aguersafene, 30.84 -8.4, 3.IV.1996, X. Vazquez (XV); 4 ex., TIZI-N-TEST 2.092m 17.5.1995 S. Kadlec lgt. (NMPC); High Atlas Tizi-n-test, 4.- 6.vi J. Macek lgt. (NMPC); Jebel Tazzeka, 7.V.07 Sv. Bíly leg. (NMPC); Jebel Tazzeka, 7.V.07 Sv. Bíly leg. (NMPC).
Algeria: 5 exx. Theniet El Had, M.F. (= forest house) de Kef Siga, 1500 m, 19.IV.1988, E. Colonnelli (MAB); 1 ex., 2 ex., Teniet mai 99 (NMPC); Djurdjura, 5 km S de Tikjda, 1450 m, 36.4049 4.1170, 11.IV.1988, E. Colonnelli (MAB); 1ex., Tizi Ouzou Djurdjura-Tikida, 1300-1700m, 11.IV.1988 G. Sama leg. (NMPC); 3 exx., P.N. (= National Park) d‘Akfadou, Fontaine des Ifs, 1300 m, 14.IV.1988, E. Colonnelli (MAB); 4 exx., P.N. d‘Akfadou, for. des Beni Ghorbi, 1000 m, 36.629 4.5365, 12.IV.1988, E.Colonnelli (MAB); 1 ex., Akfadou, 5.V.1975, D. Gianasso (CL); 4 exx., Akfadou, Tizi Ouzou, 16-18.IV.1986, G. Sama (CL); 1 ex., Tizi Ouzou Ft. D’Akfadou 1200 m, 2/ 3. VI.1986, G. Magnani (MSNV); 1 ex., Tizi Ouzou Parc Nat Akfadou, 1000/ 1400 m, 2/ 3.V.1986, G. Sama (MSNV); 1ex., El Kseur F. t d’Akfadou, 22-23.V.1981 spedizione (expedition) Boffa-Casale-Giachino-Pagliano-Risi-Scaramozzino (NMPC); 1 ex., Gde Kabylie: Yakouren 700-850m, V.1958 G. Fagel (NMPC).
Tunisia: 4 exx., Ain Draham area, 36.777 8.693, 5.V.1988 (MZC); 4 exx., 13 Km N Ain Draham, 22-24.V.1986 (MZC); 2 ex., Jendouba 5km S Ain Draham 7-8.V.2006 P. Kresl lgt. (NMPC); 1 ex., C. de la Santé (= Ain Draham, Camp de la Santé)(MSNV).
Examined specimens from Theniet El Had are topotypic (Abeille de Perrin, 1896, as Teniet el Had). Limited literature information on the distribution includes four localities from Morocco (Tarhzef, Atlas Medio, 2000 m; Oulmes; Rabat (alr.); Talmest, Gran Atlas Central, 2000 m: Kocher, 1938, 1956, as Asclera xanthoderes), three northern Algerian localities (Bedel, 1885 as Asclera xanthoderes; Abeille de Perrin, 1895: two of which were confirmed in this paper) and another not confirmed (Edough: Mayet, 1903), and one NW Tunisian site close to the Algerian border (Švihla, 1988), confirmed by the examination of additional specimens (see above). The distribution of this species is illustrated in Fig. 8.
Taxonomic remarks. Male genitalia of this species are illustrated in Figs. 1b, d, 2c, d. The aedeagus is straight as in I. sicula, but distinctly shorter and thicker, parameres are distinctly more setose and less divergent than in the Sicilian species. Tarsal claws without a distinct tooth (Figs. 2h and 3b).
description: Published as part of Bologna, Marco A., Poloni, Riccardo & Vázquez, Xavier A., 2019, A new Ischnomera of the I. xanthoderes (Mulsant, 1858) complex (Coleoptera Oedemeridae) from Sicily, pp. 541-550 in Zootaxa 4671 (4) on pages 546-547, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4671.4.5, http://zenodo.org/record/3450494