Tentyria castiliana Koch. 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 castiliana

description: Tentyria castiliana Koch, 1944 (Figs. 32, 66, 102, 137, 148, 182, 218, 246)
Tentyria peiroleri castiliana Koch, 1944a: 226; Español 1960: 406.
Tentyria peiroleri Solier sensu Kraatz 1865: 135, Viñolas 1986: 103, Viñolas & Cartagena 2005: 276 (part.).
Tentyria (Subtentyrina) castillana L̂bl & Smetana 2008: 206, Martínez 2018: 58.
Tentyria castillana Iwan & L̂bl 2020: 248
Tentyria bassii ssp. gredosana Koch, 1944a: 230 syn. nov.
Types examined: Two syntypes of Tentyria peiroleri ssp. castiliana Koch, carrying the following labels: TYPUS, Tentyria peirolerii ssp. castiliana, C. KOCH, 1944 / ALCAZAR d. S. JUAN, Prov. Ciud. Real Hi. c. G. Frey, C. Koch, V.1943 (1♁, NHMB) (Fig. 246); TYPUS, peirolerii ssp. castiliana, C. KOCH, 1944 / Quero, Hi. c. 20.5.1934 C. Koch (1♀, NHMB).
Type de Tentyria bassii ssp. gredosana Koch (Fig. 248), bearing the following labels: TYPUS, bassii ssp. gredosana C. KOCH, 1944 / Sammlung H Gebien / Piedralaves, Hi. S. de Gredos, 18.5.34, C. Koch (1♀, NHMB).
Additional Material: Ávila: El Tiemblo, 10.V.1985 (1 ex, CJF); Navarredonda, Gredos, 15.V.1982, J. Plaza leg. (1♁ and 1♀, CJF); Puerto Casillas, 10-5-1987, A. del Saz leg (1♁, CJLB). Madrid: Colmenarejo, O. Ferrer leg., Tentyria peiroleri Sol., P. Ardoin det. (1 ex, CJF); Valdemoro, Madrid (1 ex, CJF); Batres, 29.V.2004, J. J. de la Rosa leg. (1♀, CACT); La Marañosa, S. Martín de la Vega, 25.VII.1984, J.L. Bujalance leg. (1♀, CJLB); Getafe, VII-1946, S.V. Peris leg. Tentyria peiroleri castiliana (2♁♁, MNCN); Getafe, J. Sanz leg. (1♀, MNCN); Madrid, J. Ferrer leg. (1♁, CJLB). Toledo: Quero, V-1908, Tentyria peiroleri, J. Sanz leg. (1♀, MNCN); Fuensalida, VII.1988, F.A. Montes leg. (3♀♀, CJF); Idem, 22.VIII.1955, F. Español det. and leg. (1 ex CJF); Laguna de la Peña Hueca, Villacañas, 21.V.2004, A. Castro Tovar leg. (1♁ and 4♀♀, CACT; 1♁ and 2♀♀, CJLB); Montalban, VI.1981, B. Lassalle leg. (1♀ and 1♁, CJF).
Diagnosis: The typical form of T. castiliana Koch (Fig. 218) shows black, smooth, and very bright tegument; Head (Fig. 32) with the eyes usually not very convex, anteriorly sub-rounded epistome, narrow, shallow, and unwell delimited (in the middle) gular groove (Fig. 66); commonly pronotum quite transverse (Fig. 102), almost one and a half times wider than long, slightly convex, with fine but perceptible punctures, very curved sides and somewhat narrower towards the base.This is well margined bay a groove and slightly curved and prolonged backward, frequently slightly sinuous before the posterior angles, which are very obtuse and not noticeable; prosternal apophysis (Fig. 137) broad, subparallel-sided, rounded posteriorly, smooth and not, or barely, furrowed in the middle; usually little evident sexual dimorphism in the protibiae. Convex, elongated and regularly oval elytra in the males; stubby and more acuminate towards the apex in the females; generally smooth, sometimes with marks of striae finely punctured, with the apex of each elytra thorn shaped, by fusion of the superior and inferior margins of the end of the epipleura (Fig. 148), although sometimes it is only observable at high magnification; narrow and elongated aedeagus (Fig. 182), about 4 mm long, with subparallel sides, and the parameres barely longer than the phallobase.
Comments: As already indicated (comments T. peiroleri Solier), T. castiliana Koch, is valid species, taxonomically and geographically separated from T. peiroleri Solier, which is an Andalusian species, not Valencian as Koch (1944a) suggested. The Levantine specimens were confused with the nominal form of T. peiroleri Solier by all the recent authors but really, they belong to a geographic variety of T. aragonica Koch, a species very close to T. castiliana Koch. Viñolas & Cartagena (2005) synonymized these two taxa with T. peiroleri sensu Viñolas & Cartagena (2005) so the geographic distribution they proposed cannot be assumed.
On the other hand, after examining the type of T. bassii ssp. gredosana Koch, we did not find significant differences with the variant forms of T. castiliana Koch. These specimens are differentiated from the morphotype by the slenderer body; less bright tegument with denser and thicker punctures; slightly more convex eyes and the sculpture of the surface of the elytra often with traces of stretch marks.
Geographical distribution: Species described from Alcázar de San Juan (Ciudad Real, Spain) and typical in centre of the Iberian Peninsula, reaching the Central System. It has been recorded in the provinces of Ciudad Real, Toledo, Madrid (Koch, 1944a, Español, 1960) and Ávila.
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 53-54, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5320.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8203747