Tentyria aragonica Koch. We 1944
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 aragonica

description: Tentyria aragonica Koch, 1944 (Figs. 33, 67, 103, 138, 183, 219)
Tentyria aragonica Koch, 1944a: 231; Español 1960: 406, Ferrer (in L̂bl & Smetana 2008), Martínez 2018: 58, Iwan & L̂bl 2020: 248.
Tentyria peiroleri Solier sensu Viñolas 1986: 103; Viñolas & Cartagena 2005: 276 (part.).
Types examined: The type of Tentyria aragonica (Teruel, Albarracín, Jaitner leg.) was not found among other types described by Koch and preserved in G. Frey coll. (NHMB).
Additional material: Alicante: Ibi, 8.VII.1981, J.M. Vela leg. (1 ex, CJLB). Teruel: Frías, Albarracín, VII.1958, F. Español leg. / Tentyria peiroleri aragonica Koch, MZB / 85-6524, MZB (2♀♀ and 1♁, MCNB); idem / 85-6525, MZB (1♁, MCNB); Teruel, VIII.1941, Villalta leg. / 85-6527 (1♀, MCNB); Teruel, IV.1954, Picaud leg. / 85-6165 (1♀ and 1 ♁, MCNB); Teruel 935 m, B. Muñoz leg. / VIII.31 / MNCN _ Ent. NºCat. 70810-70811 (2 ♁♁, MNCN); idem / IV.31 / 70812, 70814 (2 ♁♁); idem / V.30 / 70813 (1♁); Ejulve, Teruel, VIII-58, Gracia leg. / 85-6526 (1♀, MCNB); Alcañiz, 12.VI.1957, Vives leg. / 85-6528 (1♀, MCNB); Teruel, Alcañiz, 20.IX.1993, C. Jeanne leg. (CFS); Javalambre, Teruel, Schraum leg. (MNHN). Valencia: Deh. Albufera (Valencia) Moróder leg. / Muséum Paris, 1678, Coll. P. Ardoin (1♁, MNHN); Requena, Tentyria peiroleri Sol. / ex. Deyrolle (1♀, MNCN); Valencia, Hispania / etiquetas coll. Reitter, det. J. Ferrer / Tentyria castiliana Koch, 1944 stat. nov., Bujalance & Ferrer des. 2011 (1♀ and 1♁, NRMS); Valencia, Hispania (1♀, NRMS); Tentyria peiroleri Sol., Valencia, coll. Frey (NHMB); Valencia, Bétera, Peris Torres leg., Tentyria peiroleri Sol. det. F. Español (CJF). Zaragoza: Sabinar de Retuerta de Pina, Pina de Ebro, 25.V.1992, J. Blasco leg. (1 ♁, CJLB); Peñaflor, 4.VI.1952, S.V. Peris leg., T. peiroleri aragonica Koch, Español det. (1♀, MNCN); Vedado de Peñaflor, 18.II.2007, Murria leg. (2 ♀♀, CJLB); Zaragoza capital, Barrio de la Cartuja, III.1999, F. Murria Beltrán leg. (CJF); Montes de Torrero, III.1999, ídem (CJF); Bujaralaz, Monasterio de Rueda, 29.IV.2001, L. Soldati leg. (CLS); Bujaralaz, Laguna de Playa, 29.IV.2001, F. Soldati (CFS).
Diagnosis (according to the morphotypes from Albarracín): Robust body (Fig. 219), about 11.5 to 15.5 mm long; smooth and very bright tegument. Strong and dense punctures in head and pronotum, those of the elytra something finer and more dispersed, but well noticeable. Head (Fig. 33) with convex eyes, back converging temples, raised supraorbital folds, curved, and forward prolonged epistome, wide and deep (in the middle) gular groove (Fig. 67), narrowed at the sides. Convex, discoidal, and transverse pronotum (Fig. 103), with very curved sides, equally narrowed forward and behind, very obtuse, barely marked rear angles, thick margined, and slightly backward prolonged, particularly in males. Parallel-sided prosternal apophysis (Fig. 138) narrower that of T. castiliana, with the rear end rounded and down bent (in ventral view); dimorphism sexual of protibia observable but not very noticeable. Very convex elytra, in males slightly wider than the pronotum, ovate, elongated and narrowed, almost equally towards the base than in the apex, rounded humeri. In general, shorter, and stubby in the females, sometimes with superficial traces of longitudinal stria; aedeagus (Fig. 183) about 3.7–4 mm in length, with the phallobase wider and shorter than the parameters, which are narrowed from the base to the apex, in sinuous line.
Comments: T. aragonica Koch, was described as species close to the group of T. bassii Solier, however this last species shows a series of features that make it unmistakable: shape of head and convexity of eyes; gross and very dense punctures of the entire surface of the body; deeper gular groove, graceful legs, and noticeable sexual dimorphism of male protibiae, and shape of the aedeagus. Likewise, Koch (1944a) placed it close to the group of T. peiroleri sensu Koch (not T. peiroleri Solier). Español (1960), Viñolas (1986) and Viñolas & Cartagena (2005) considered it specifically inseparable from T. peiroleri sensu Koch.
As already was exposed, T. peiroleri Solier has been a misinterpreted species and not taxonomically related with T. aragonica Koch. We consider that this taxon is very close to T. castiliana Koch and that, like this one, it shows great variability that in many cases makes it difficult the correct identification. The typical form from Teruel of T. aragonica Koch differs from T. castiliana Koch, by the shape of the head, with somewhat more convex eyes, and projected forward epistome, separated from the gena by a more apparent sinuosity; usually less transverse pronotum, stronger and densely punctured and with the base more curved and sinuate before the posterior angles; the protibia of the males slightly more graceful and somewhat sinuate in the internal edge; apex of the elytra not spiniform, and aedeagus, with the parameters clearly longer than the phallobase.
The variability of some specimens is related to size, smaller in specimens of the inland of the Levante region (these specimens were considered by Koch and later authors the typical nominal form of T. peiroleri Solier); less bright cuticle and the less manifest head features; usually smooth surface of the elytra, but also it may be clearly striated, striated-rough or simply rough, but always very superficially; and the punctures of the body surface, variable in thicknes and densely marked.
Geographical distribution: Species described from Albarracín (Teruel), it is present in the centre and eastern of the Iberian Peninsula, typical of the Iberian System Mountains, extending to the north by the Ebro basin, and to the south through the inland of the Levantine zone. It has been recorded in the provinces of Zaragoza, Teruel, Valencia, and Alicante.
Group of T. pazi
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 54-55, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5320.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8203747