Pogonus (Pogonus) pallidipennis Dejean, 1828

Figs 2D, 3I, 5C

Pogonus (Pogonus) pallidipennis Dejean, 1828: 7 .

Pogonus rappi Hubenthal, 1915: 107 .

Diagnoses

Tegument similar than in P. luridipennis . Pronotum weakly or not transverse, sub-cordiform. Elytra narrow, parallel and convex. Up to 3 setigerous pores in the 3 rd interstria.

Material examined

No Ibero-Balearic material was available for study.

FRANCE • 4 ♂♂, 7 ♀♀; Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer; 28 Mar. 1974; G. Dubault leg.; VMO .

Description

Habitus (Fig. 2D). Length: 7.0–8.0 mm. Antennomeres testaceous, but the 2 nd and 3 rd are slightly lighter than the rest. Palps yellow. Lateral sinuosity of the pronotum relatively long and smooth; lateral sulcus slightly widened. Anterior region of the pronotum slightly punctured; punctuation of the base deep, combined with marked longitudinal clefts that give the surface a striated appearance. Legs entirely testaceous. Median lobe of the aedeagus wide in its median region, clearly arcuate and with the apex narrow and relatively sharp (Fig. 3I).

Chorology

Species present along the Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula, France and Italy (Bousquet 2017).

Ibero-Balearic distribution (Fig. 5C): in the Iberian Peninsula, the only precise records of this species come from some localities of the Catalan coast (NE Spain), but it has also been reported, with no precision, from the coast of Valencia (E Spain; Zaballos & Jeanne 1994).

Biology

The few published comments about its biology remark that, as in other Pogonini, P. pallidipennis has a sub-lapidicolous life close to wet and saline zones (it can also be collected under other solid objects that act as refuges) (Español 1964).

Bibliographic Ibero-Balearic records

Español 1964; Vives & Vives 1978a; Zaballos & Jeanne 1994.