Anillochlamys raholai Zariquiey, 1922

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 : 18-19

Anillochlamys raholai Zariquiey, 1922 ( Figs. 2 , 30 )

Anillochlamys Raholai Zariquiey, 1922b: 159 ; plate XI.

Current accepted name

Pseudospeonomus raholai (Zariquiey, 1922) : Comas et al., 2007: 124.

Type locality

Cova Tassana [original citation: “Cova Tasana, junto a la cala Reparada y dentro de la bahía de Joncus, situada en terrenos de los Barones de la Roda y término municipal de Cadaqués (Prov. Gerona)”].

Type material

Holotype ♂: MZB 78-3018, type loc., VIII-1919, R. Zariquiey leg.

Paratypes: MZB 78-2225, MZB 78-3017 (2 ♀♀), same data as holotype .

Remarks

Male holotype originally designated as a “Tipo” (= holotype, Article 73.1.1.). Subsequently Zariquiey (1922b) cites the capture of various specimens from the type locality at the end of August 1919 (with no further details). In the MCNB collection we have found three specimens with identical collection labels and with red labels with the written inscription “COTIPO” (MZB 78-2225) or the printed inscription “Typus” (MZB 78-3017 and MZB 78-3018). Oleguer Escolà, the former curator of the MCNB arthropod collection, identified by handwritten labels the specimen MZB 78-3018 (lacking the posterior part of its abdomen) as the holotype designated by Zariquiey (1922b), indicating that its copulatory organ has been extracted and subsequently lost. The author of the description gives the length of the holotype (2.5 mm) and also indicates its relative dimensions (length and width) of the antennal segments, the relative lengths of the segments of the rear tarsus, and describes and illustrates the aedeagus of the supposed (there is no way of knowing for sure) male holotype. Neither can we be sure how Zariquiey made these measurements. We have no reason to doubt the identification of the holotype made by Escolà, who we assume must have had additional information at his disposal that enabled him to reach this conclusion.

In the MNCNM (box 2) we have located a specimen labelled as a cotype by C. Bolívar, which also has the red printed label of a syntype (nº 11491) added at a later date. Jeannel (1924a) states for this species “…type: cova Tasana (coll. Zariquiey et coll. Biospeologica)”. In the general collection of the MHNNP (box 52), we have located specimens with identical collection dates but not labelled as belonging to the type series .

Figures

FIGURES 1–5. Original labels associated to type specimens of Iberian Leptodirini: 1. Adelops kiesenwetteri Dieck, 1869, syntype, Montserrat (MZB 78-2710); 2. Anillochlamys raholai Zariquiey, 1922, holotype ♂, Cova Tassana (MZB 78-3018) including label handwritten by Escolà; 3. Anillochlamys raholai luis-bofilli Zariquiey, 1940, holotype ♂, Cova de l’Aigua de Malaterra (MZB 78-2913); 4. Bathysciola breuili Bolívar, 1921, paratype ♂, Cueva de Landarbaso (MZB 78-2239); 5. Bathysciola obermaieri Bolívar, 1918, paratype ♂, Cueva de la Ermita de Santa Elena (MZB 78-2490).

FIGURES 26–31. Type specimens of Iberian Leptodirini. Habitus photographs, dorsal view (scale bar: 1 mm): 26. Adelops kiesenwetteri Dieck, 1869, syntype, Montserrat (MZB 78-2710); 27. Anillochlamys aurouxi Español, 1965, syntype ♂, La Covatilla (MZB 78-1728); 28. Anillochlamys avariae Comas, 1977, holotype ♂, Cova del Forat (MZB 78-1709); 29. Anillochlamys moroderi subtruncatus Jeannel, 1930, syntype ♀, Cova Negra (MZB 78-2157); 30. Anillochlamys raholai Zariquiey, 1922, paratype ♀, Cova Tassana (MZB 78-2225); 31. Anillochlamys urgellesi Español, 1965, syntype ♂, Cova Bonica (MZB 78-1764).