Pogonus (Pogonus) gilvipes Dejean, 1828

Figs 2A, 3F, 4F

Pogonus (Pogonus) gilvipes Dejean, 1828: 14 .

Pogonus apicalis Küster, 1852: no. 37.

Pogonus parallelus Chaudoir, 1872: 27 .

Pogonus fallax Carret, 1903: 138 .

Diagnoses

Tegument dark brown, with a bronze sheen. Pronotum cordiform, transverse or sub-transverse, with the disc smooth. Elytra parallel or sub-parallel; up to 5 setigerous pores in the 3 rd interstria.

Material examined

SPAIN • 3 ♂♂, 1 ♀; Alicante, Albufera de Elche; C. Bolívar leg., MNCN • 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀; Alicante, Elche; MNCN • 1 ♂; Alicante, Salinas de Bonmatí; 16 Aug. 1985; V.M. Ortuño leg.; VMO • 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; 21 Aug. 1985; V.M. Ortuño leg.; VMO • 3 ♂♂, 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; 21 Jul. 1986; V.M. Ortuño leg.; VMO • 6 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀; Alicante, Salinas de Calpe; 22 Apr. 1934; C. Bolívar leg.; MNCN • 3 ♂♂, Alicante, Urbanova; 21 Apr. 1988; V.M. Ortuño leg.; VMO • 1 ♂; 23 Apr. 2002; V.M. Ortuño leg.; VMO • 1 ♂; Cádiz; F. Fernando leg.; Pérez Arcas coll.; MNCN • 2 specs; Cádiz, Jerez; Laguna de Medina, 8 May 1982; Ramírez leg.; MNCN • 1 spec.; Cádiz, Palmones; 29 Apr. 1976; J. Ramírez leg.; MNCN • 1 spec.; same collection data as for preceding; 3 May 1976; J. Ramírez leg.; MNCN • 1 spec.; same collection data as for preceding; 5 May 1976; J. Ramírez leg.; MNCN • 1 spec.; same collection data as for preceding; 6 Jul. 1976; MNCN • 1 spec., Cádiz, Tarifa, Río del Valle; 18 Jul. 1977; J. Ramírez leg.; MNCN • 3 spec.; Cádiz, San Fernando; 13 Jul. 1976; J. Ramírez leg.; MNCN • 6 spec.; same collection data as for preceding; 15 Apr. 1976; MNCN • 2 spec.; Cádiz, Zahara de los Atunes; 24 Apr. 1976; J. Ramírez leg.; MNCN • 1 ♂, 1 ♀; Huelva; Cardiel leg.; MNCN • 2 ♂♂; same collection data as for preceding; Lauffer leg.; MNCN .

Description

Habitus (Fig. 2A). Length: 5.5–6.0 mm. Antennae and palps almost entirely testaceous or yellow (base of the first antennomere and insertion points of the palpomeres slightly darkened). Anterior angles of the pronotum not or hardly protruding; lateral sulcus widened. Legs entirely testaceous. Median lobe of the aedeagus arcuate and narrowed progressively until the apex, which is well developed and spatulashaped (Fig. 3F). Among the sclerotised pieces that are found in the internal sac, the presence of a thick thorn directed to the dorsum should be noted, on which a helical scaly structure is superimposed.

Chorology

Species with a wide Palaearctic distribution, also present in the Afrotropical Region (Ratti 1983; Sauleda 1985; Bousquet 2017) and in the Canary Islands (Machado 1992).

Ibero-Balearic distribution (Fig. 4F): in the Iberian Peninsula, the species is widely present along the Atlantic coast of the meridional extreme, but also at some localities of the Mediterranean coast. Jeanne (1968) published a record from Las Hurdes (Cáceres, W Spain) that probably is incorrect as, according to the current chorological knowledge, it would represent a very isolated population. In the Balearic Islands P. gilvipes is present in Mallorca, Menorca and Ibiza.

Biology

Sauleda (1985) indicates that this is an uncommon species which can be found in areas colonised by plants of Arthrocnemetea all year except winter. Some comments on the larvae of this species have been published: Machado (1992) suggested that, at coastal localities, the preimaginal stages of P. gilvipes could develop under the remains of marine algae deposited by the sea on rocky shorelines.

Bibliographic Ibero-Balearic records

Baehr 1986; Jeanne 1968, 1978; López-Pérez et al. 2014; Palmer & Vives 1993; Putzeys 1874; Sauleda 1985; Serrano et al. 1986, 2015, 2021; Vives & Vives 1978a; Zaballos & Jeanne 1994.