Tentyria sublaevis subsp. cognata Bujalance & Ferrer & Cárdenas 2023, ssp. 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 sublaevis
Tentyria sublaevis cognata

description: Tentyria sublaevis cognata ssp. nov. (Figs. 21, 55, 89, 126, 147, 173, 207)
Type material: Holotype (♁): Sra. de Baza, Granada, 20.VI.1980, B. Lassalle leg., (NHRS). Paratypes: same labels than the Type (3♀♀ CJF); Barranco del Espartal, Baza (Granada), 30SWG2854, 7.V.1990, F. S. Piñero leg. (1♁ CFSP); idem, 13.V.1990, idem (1♁ CFSP); idem, A5 21.VII.1991 (1♀ CFSP); idem, A3 21.IV.1991 (1♁ CFSP); idem, 17.III.1990 (1♁ CFSP); idem, A10 8.IV.1991 (1♁ CFSP); idem, 31.III.1990 (1♁ CFSP); idem, 31.V.1990 (1♀ CFSP); idem, A3 21.VII.1991 (1♀ CFSP); idem, 16.IX.1990 (1♀ CFSP); idem, A3 7.VII.1991 (1♀ CFSP); idem, A12 8.IV.1991 (1♀ CFSP); idem, C7 21.VII.1991 (1♀, CFSP); idem, 11.III.1990 (2♀♀ CFSP); idem, B12 24.VI.1991 (1♀ CFSP); idem, A5 24.VI.1991 (1♀ CFSP); idem, 1.VI.1990 (1♁ CFSP); idem, 26.IV.1992 (2♀♀ CFSP); P.N. Sierra de Huétor, Cerro de Orduña, Iznalloz, Granada, 1940 m, 2.X.2010, A. Castro Tovar leg. (3♁♁ and 3♀♀ CACT); Camino del cortijo de los Llanos, Galera, Cúllar, Granada, 6.IV.2005, A. Castro Tovar (1♁ CACT); Huéscar, Granada, Escalera leg., 1900 / peirolerii Sol. det. Schuster / gaditana / Tentyria peiroleri Sol. F. Español det. / Museum Paris, 1978, Coll. P. Ardoin (1 ex, MNHN); La Sagra, Granada, 2.VII.1976, J. de Ferrer leg. / Tentyria laevis Sol. det. P. Leo 1982, (1♀, CJLB); La Sagra, Granada, J. Ardois leg. (1♀ MNCN); La Sagra, 8.VI.1986, P. Bonneau leg. (♁♁? and ♀♀? CFSP); Puebla de D. Fadrique, 1900, Escalera leg. (1 ex, MNCN).
Description: Holotype (fig. 207). Size 18.2 mm length and 7.8 mm of maximum width at elytra. Elongate, black, smooth, and shiny body, especially in the ventral side.
Head (Fig. 21): maximum width (3.2 mm) at the eyes, which are slightly convex, with conspicuous and well developed supraorbital folds, slightly convergent and sinuated; convergent backwards temples; margin of epistome openly curved and showing a barely developed tooth; frontal punctures dense and conspicuous, but not confluent, the punctures are round and smaller in the epistome and genae; transverse gular groove (Fig. 55), clearly surpassing the base of mentum and conformed by central depression not very deep and feebly delimited at each side.
Pronotum (Fig. 89): convex moderately transverse, 1.38 times as wide as long, the maximum of width at the middle (5.5 mm broad, 4 mm long), sides slightly more curved towards the base than towards the apex; sub-right base, posterior angles obtuse, inconspicuous dorsally. Punctures fine, but conspicuous, moderately dense but not as deep as in the head. Prosternal apophyses curved at the end, but not surpassing the level of procoxae, similar to the type form (Fig. 126). Prosternum and propleura are smooth and shiny, with fine but conspicuous punctures. Not very graceful and sub-right male protibiae, slightly sinuated inner margin.
Convex and smooth elytra, with extremely fine punctures, 2.85 times longer than pronotum, oval elongated, about 1.45 times longer than wide; the maximum of width at middle; rounded humeri with the base entirely margined and straight; in dorsal view the elytra become feebly slope from middle to apex, which is acuminated because the prolongation of the upper margin of the epipleura, surpassing the anal sternite (Fig. 147); smooth and shiny urosternites, the punctures hardly visible.
Broad and robust aedeagus (Fig. 173), 4.2 mm long, the parameres about 1.1 times longer than the phallobase.
Paratypes: Size 14.3–18 mm length (16.1 mm average) and 5.7–8 mm of maximum width at elytra (6.66 mm average).
Pronotum convex and somewhat transverse, 1.25–1.39 times wider than long (1.32 times in average: 1.30 times in males and 1.33 in females), with the maximum at the middle (4.2–5.5 mm wide, 3.2–3.9 mm length).
Elytra 2.61–3.34 times longer than the pronotum (2.8 times in average), oval-elongated, 1.43–1.63 times longer than wide (average 1.50 times).
Large Aedeagus 3.4–4.2 mm length (3.93 mm average); parameres 1.05–1.17 times (1.10 average) longer than the phallobase.
Females often more robust, more transverse pronotum, with the sides more curved; protibiae somewhat shorter, robust, and straight in the inner side; elytra longer respect to the pronotum and more narrowed in the apex.
Variability of the Paratypes: Variability mostly concerns the size, the shape of the epistome, with tooth present or absent, the intensity of the cephalic and pronotum punctures, the apex of elytra sometimes acuminated, sometimes conspicuously spiny.
Differential diagnosis: T. sublaevis cognata ssp. nov. differs of T. sublaevis Kraatz f. t. in the following features: larger average size; broader head, not so convex eyes, cephalic and pronotal punctures somewhat more evident; more delimited and transverse gular groove (more superficial in T. sublaevis f.t.); usually not so transverse pronotum, at least in females, with openly curved sides, particularly on the anterior third, less rounded anterior angles; more robust male protibiae. More elongated elytra, with apex more elongated, spiniform or more acuminated by the extension of the upper margin with respect to the lower one of the epipleure; longer, more robust, and more acuminated aedeagus. These differences are more pronounced comparing with T. sublaevis Kraatz f. t. with coastal distribution.
T. sublaevis cognata ssp. nov. differs from T. peiroleri Solier in the larger average size, shiner tegument, finer and feeble punctures; not triangular or sub-triangular epistome, less prominent epistomal tooth; more transverse and not so convex pronotum. Longer elytra, never sub-parallel or stubby, not even in the females; with apex more elongated, spiniform or more acuminated by the extension of the upper margin with respect to the lower one of the epipleure; larger aedeagus with the parameres curved, non-parallel and more apically acuminated.
Geographic distribution: Intra-Betic depression, particularly, in the zone of Hoya de Baza and surroundings in the province of Granada.
Etymology: The specific epithet “ cognata ”, refers to the narrow relationship of this species with other congeners, which has led to the taxonomic confusion.
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 38-39, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5320.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8203747