Tentyria castrotovari 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 castrotovari

description: Tentyria castrotovari sp. nov. (Figs. 23, 57, 91, 128, 175, 209)
Type material: Holotype (♁): Campos de Hernán Perea, Santiago de la Espada (Jaén) 27.IV.2002, A. Castro Tovar leg. (CACT). Paratypes: idem, Sª de Cazorla, Segura and las Villas, 3.VII.2010, idem (3 ♁♁ and 1♀ CACT); idem, 23.I.2010, idem (3♀♀ CACT); idem, 3.VII.2010, idem (8 exx, CACT); Rambla Seca, Sierra de Cazorla (Jaén) 5.V.2008, idem (3♁♁ CACT and 1♁ CJLB); Pinos Negros, Pico Banderillas, Sierra de Cazorla (Jaén) 27.IV.2002, idem (1♀ CJLB); La Pandera, Los Villares 19.VI.2010, idem (1♁ and 1♀ CACT); Cima de La Pandera, Valdepeñas, Jaén 11.VI.2011, idem (2 exx, CACT); idem, 27.V.2012, M.A. López leg. (3 exx, CACT).
Description: Holotype (Fig. 209). Elongated body; black, smooth, and shiny tegument. Size 15.2 mm long, 6 mm maximum width at the elytra.
Head (Fig. 23) with the maximum width (2.8 mm) in the eyes that are slightly convex; not very noticeable supraorbital folds; converging backwards temples; parallel genae, narrowing towards the epistome which that is sub-rounded or almost truncated, something projected forward and without median tooth; fine, clearly observable, and non-confluent punctures; transverse gular groove, consisting of a medium depression, not delimited at rear, and two deep and well-defined lateral notches (Fig. 57). Long and filiform antenae, reaching but not surpassing the base of pronotum, with the 1 st antennomere sturdy, the 2 nd small and barely longer than wide, the 3 rd 3.25 times longer than wide and similar in length than the 4 th and 5 th together, from 4 th (twice as long as wide) to 8 th longer than wide but decreasing progressively in length, 9 th almost equal in length that wide, 10 th slightly transverse and 11 th conical and slightly longer than wide.
Convex and slightly transverse pronotum (Fig. 91), 1.28 times wider than long with the maximum width in the middle (4.5 mm wide, 3.5 mm long), sides in open curve from the basis to the apex, which is almost straight in dorsal view, barely wider than the base. This last one is slightly rounded and with the margin separated from the disc by a deep and well-defined groove and somewhat sinuate before the posterior angles which are obtuse and scarcely indicated. Small but very noticeable punctures somewhat dense, like those of the head. Prosternal apophysis (Fig. 128) with the end rounded in ventral view, not overcoming the procoxae in lateral view; smooth and somewhat brighter propleurae and prosternum, with small but well noticeable punctures; protibiae long and graceful, with the inner edge somewhat sinuous and curved close to the apex.
Convex and smooth elytra and with fine punctures; 2.7 times longer than the pronotum, in elongated oval, 1.5 times longer than wide, with the maximum width in the middle, equally narrowed in the base than in the apex, this somewhat acuminate and commonly divergent, but not spiny and hardly prolonged beyond the last urosternite; rounded humeri with the base fully margined and slightly curved; urosternites smooth and with very fine punctures.
Large aedeagus (Fig. 175), 4.3 mm in length, with the parameres 1.32 times longer than the phallobase and the sides slightly sinuous.
Paratypes: Size of 13.3–17 mm length (15.4 mm average), 5.7–7.2 mm maximum width in elytra (6.2 mm average).
Pronotum convex and slightly transverse, 1.22–1.35 times wider than long (1.28 times average: 1.26 times in males and 1.32 times in females), with the maximum width in the middle (4.3–5.2 mm wide and 3.3–4 mm length).
Elytra 2.63–2.9 times longer than the pronotum (average 2.77 times), oval-elongated, 1.4–1.58 times longer than wide (average 1.48 times).
Aedeagus large, 4–4.5 mm length, (4.25 mm average), with the parameres 1.1–1.37 times (1.25 average) longer than the phallobase.
Females with rounder head, and more convex eyes; pronotum more transverse and, usually, with the sides closer curved; protibiae shorter and straight in the inner edge; and the elytra less narrow at the humeri. More robust appearance.
Variability of paratypes: Some paratypes show the punctation of head and pronotum denser and more noticeable. Other specimens have the end of elytra more elongated and narrowed, but not spiniform.
Differential diagnosis: Morphologically quite similar to T. prolixa Rosenhauer, but differs in the larger average size, more robust appearance; shorter and wider oval elytra, unnoticeable punctures and sharp and divergent end; the base of pronotum is less curved and sinuous before the posterior angles; less marked punctures; less graceful protibiae; larger aedeagus, with the parameres clearly longest than the phallobase.
Respect to T. sublaevis Kraatz, is different in the shape of head, and in the lack of epistomial tooth; less transverse pronotum; the gular groove better marked; oval more regular elytra, non-spiniform in comparison with T. sublaevis ssp. cognata nov., and parameres of the aedeagus clearly longer than the phallobase.
It is different of T. peiroleri Solier in the bigger average size; somewhat more smooth and shiny tegument; shape of the head and the absence of epistomal tooth, gular groove usually wider and deeper; less convex pronotum, less densely punctured and usually something more transverse, at least more than T. peiroleri ssp. incerta; prosternal apophysis not surpassing the procoxae; elytrae with the imperceptible punctures, in a more regular oval; sides nonsubparallel or plump, not even in the females; and particularly by the aedeagus, much larger and with the parameters clearly longer than the phallobase.
Finally, it differs from T. kochi sp. nov. in the tegument somewhat smoother and brighter; the shape of the head, with the epistome never triangular and unarmed; more convex eyes; poorly defined in the middle throat groove and never so wide and deep; less convex pronotum, never sub-globose, brighter, and less densely punctured; elytra with imperceptible punctures; much larger aedeagus and with the parameters clearly longer than the phallobase.
Geographic distribution: This species has only been collected in the type’s localities in Cazorla, Segura and the Villas Natural Park (Jaén).
Etymology: Species named after the collector Mr. Alejandro Castro Tovar, entomologist from Jaen.
Group of T. gaditana
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 41-43, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5320.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8203747