Pseudomeira baetica, Pierotti & Bellò & Alonso-Zarazaga, 2010

Pierotti, Helio, Bellò, Cesare & Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A., 2010, 2376, Zootaxa 2376, pp. 1-96 : 27-28

Pseudomeira baetica sp. n.

( Figs. 1 -Bd, 25a–b, 52b, 73)

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Peritelus kiesenwetteri Seidlitz sensu Roudier, 1958a: 53 .

Diagnosis. Species of medium size (5.4–6.2 mm), distinguished from P. kiesenwetterii , apart from the characters in the key also by the different endophallic structures.

Description. Body outline robust, slightly elongate. Dorsal vestiture composed of ochreous scales with weak golden shimmer, imbricate on dorsum, and of short broad setae, appressed on dorsum, elongate on desmomeres, denser and paler on desmomeres 1–4. Rostrum subquadrate, sides almost straight, not or hardly convergent from temples to pterygia, epistome deeply and widely notched, epistomal keel present, pterygia evenly projecting from side margins of rostrum; metarostrum with a short median keel, prorostrum with a deep longitudinal fovea. Frons narrow, with a median fovea usually joined to the prorostral fovea. Eyes small, rounded, flattened. Antennae with scape and funicle robust, desmomere 1 not longer than 2, this shorter than 3+4; club short and robust, first segment widely cup-shaped. Pronotum transverse, not wider at base than at apex, sides sinuate, disc with shallow punctures. Elytra ovoid, elongate, rounded at sides, impressed at base, convex on dorsum, humeral calli more or less obsolete, striae with evident punctures in spite of vestiture, interstriae very finely punctulate, almost flat. Tibiae robust, protibiae rounded on outer margin before apex, metatibiae with a series of small teeth on inner margin. Aedeagus in dorsal view with pre-apical region shortly cordiform ( Fig. 25a); endophallic structures as in Fig. 25b. Spermatheca as in Fig. 52b.

Etymology. A Latin adjective referring to the old name Baetis of the river Guadalquivir, near whose sources the species was found, and which applies to the surrounding region as well.

Distribution. Iberian endemite: southern Spain (Andalusia) (Fig. 73).

Material examined. Holotype male: Jaén, Sierra de Cazorla, Vadillo de Castril , 15.2.2002, leg. Pierotti ( MMA); paratypes: Jaén : do., 15.5.2002, leg. Bellò (1 MMA, 31 BEL, 1 OSE); do., leg. Pierotti (1 OSE, 30 PIE); Vadillo de Castril , S. Cazorla (Jaén), Mateu-Cobos coll. (1 MMI, 2 ROU); E Andalucia S. de las Villas 14. Km. SW Tranco, 1390 m., N 38°04’32’’ W 02°54’51’’, 20 aprile 2003, leg. Stüben (1 STU).

Biology. We have collected this species only on Buxus sempervirens L. ( Buxaceae ).

Notes. This taxon is clearly more orophilous than P. kiesenwetterii and indicated to differ from the latter at species level, as outlined by Pierotti & Bellò (2000).