Quaestus (Quaestus) acuminatus Salgado, 1999

Prieto-Manzanares, Miguel & Masó-Ros, Glòria, 2025, Annotated catalogue of type specimens of Iberian Leptodirini Lacordaire, 1854 (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Cholevinae) deposited in the Natural Science Museum of Barcelona (Spain), Zootaxa 5682 (1), pp. 1-102 : 32

Quaestus (Quaestus) acuminatus Salgado, 1999 ( Fig. 41 )

Quaestus (Quaestus) acuminatus Salgado, 1999a: 211 ; figs. 2–5.

Current accepted name

Quaestus acuminatus Salgado, 1999 : Fresneda et al., 2024: 487.

Type locality

Cueva la Xiana [original citation: “ Cueva la Xiana ... in Tospe (Municipality of Arriondas, Asturias, Spain)”].

Type material

Paratypes: MZB 98-0901 / MZB 98-0907, MZB 2010-0178, MZB 2017-1385 / MZB 2017-1387 (4 ♂♂, 7 ♀♀), Cueva de Pico de Biesques , 9-IX-1995, J. M. Salgado & D. Rodríguez leg.

Remarks

Type series consisting of 177 ♂♂ and 303 ♀♀ from eight caves in Asturias ( Salgado, 1999a). Male holotype and female allotype deposited in the CZULE; paratypes deposited in other collections: ACC, CZULE, MNHNP and PMGC ( Salgado, 1999a). Fresneda & Salgado (2016) indicated that paratypes from the Cueva la Cueva and Cueva de los Padrones are deposited in the MCNB; nevertheless, we have only been able to find the specimens from the aforementioned Cueva de Pico de Biesques.

Figures

FIGURES 38–43. Type specimens of Iberian Leptodirini. Habitus photographs, dorsal view (scale bar: 1 mm): 38. Notidocharis espanyoli Comas, 1987, holotype ♂, Cueva de la Pruneda (MZB 78-2217); 39. Paranillochlamys velox Zariquiey, 1940, syntype ♂, Avenc de la Fotx (MZB 78-2158); 40. Perriniella bofilli Zariquiey, 1924, syntype ♂, Cova de les Encantades (MZB 78- 2057); 41. Quaestus acuminatus Salgado, 1999, paratype ♂, Cueva la Xiana (MZB 98-0901); 42. Quaestus incognitus Salgado & Fresneda, 2004, paratype ♂, Cueva de JuliÓ (MZB 2010-0170). 43. Quaestus sajaensis Salgado 1998, paratype ♀, Cueva El Poyo (MZB 98-0896).