Pseudoperitelus globulicollis (Seidlitz) Pierotti & Bellò & Alonso-Zarazaga, 2010

Pierotti, Helio, Bellò, Cesare & Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A., 2010, 2376, Zootaxa 2376, pp. 1-96 : 46

Pseudoperitelus globulicollis (Seidlitz) comb. n.

Peritelus (Peritelus) globulicollis Seidlitz in Marseul, 1871a: 39; Marseul, 1871b: 72; Lona, 1937: 257.

Peritelus globulicollis Seidlitz : Iglesias Iglesias, 1922: 6; Pierotti & Bellò, 1998: 104; Gurrea Sanz & Sanz Benito, 2000: 237; Alonso-Zarazaga, 2002: 24.

Diagnosis. Species of medium size (length of holotype: 5.5 mm), characterised by subrectilinear elytral sides and eyes not or hardly prominent beyond the genae.

Redescription (holotype). Body outline elongate. Dorsal vestiture of strongly imbricate scales on elytra, grey and ochreous with faint metallic sheen, forming irregular spots, not covering striae, and of elongate setae, appressed on pronotum, reclinate on elytra, raised on elytral sides and posteriorly. Rostrum subquadrate, narrower at base than at apex, epistome raised, epistomal keel present, metarostrum with a faint median longitudinal swelling, prorostrum narrowly sulcate medially; pterygia hardly prominent. Frons rather narrow, depressed with respect to vertex, with median fovea. Eyes large, flattened, weakly elongate, hardly prominent beyond genae. Antennae with scape sinuate, narrow and subcylindrical in basal half, from there to apex progressively incrassate; funicle narrow and elongate, desmomere 1 ca. 2.5 times as long as wide, subequal to 2+3, 3–7 progressively shorter, 6 and 7 rather transverse, all with fine setae, not or hardly broadened at apex; club robust, first segment widely cup-shaped. Pronotum transverse, strongly rounded at sides, slightly depressed behind apical margin, disc with moderately dense, faint punctures. Elytra elongate, maximum width at humeri, sides subrectilinear, weakly depressed at base, convex on disc, humeral calli distinct, strial punctures closely set, interstriae flat to very weakly convex. Tibiae moderately elongate, fore tibiae markedly widened at apex. Genitalia not studied.

Distribution. Ibero-Balearic(?) endemite: southern Spain. The label of the type specimen reads “ Andalusia ”, whereas the original description gives the type locality as Alicante, a more likely place for it to have been collected. Spanish literature records: Andalusia (l. cl.?); Alicante; Mallorca: Torre d’en Pau ( Iglesias Iglesias, 1922), S’Albufera ( Gurrea Sanz & Sanz Benito, 2000).

Material examined: Holotype, labelled. 1) ♀; 2) globicollis [sic!] n.sp., Andal., (illegible signs); 3) Sammlung v. Seidlitz; 4) Holotypus, Peritelus globulicollis, Zool. Staatsslg. München (SEI) . Other specimen: “Hisp.” ( SOL, a female with empty abdomen) .

Notes. The two following species may represent insular populations of P. globulicollis , although at least P. espanoli appears to be clearly differentiated. Since no mainland specimens of P. globulicollis apart from the type and that of the imprecise locality housed in SOL could be examined, for the time we prefer to treat P. lopezi as a distinct species for the Balearic specimens.