Quaestus (Speogeus) mermejaensis Salgado & Fresneda, 2004

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 : 35

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5682.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:34279617-8D03-47D2-972B-42F7D0C3702E
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16986574
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D42CA777-5439-CB77-FF6D-F85E7FE2F838
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Quaestus (Speogeus) mermejaensis Salgado & Fresneda, 2004
status

Treatment

Quaestus (Speogeus) mermejaensis Salgado & Fresneda, 2004 View in CoL

Quaestus (Speogeus) mermejaensis Salgado & Fresneda, 2004b: 41 View in CoL ; figs. 18–23.

Current accepted name

Quaestus mermejaensis Salgado & Fresneda, 2004 View in CoL : Fresneda et al., 2024: 489.

Type locality

Cueva del Prau [original citation: “Cave of the Prau, Puente de Piedra-Buspriz, T. M. de Caso (Asturies, Spain)”].

Type material

Paratypes: MZB 2010-0174, MZB 2017-1268 / MZB 2017-1270 (2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀), type loc., 31-VII-2002, J. M. Salgado & D. Rodríguez leg. │ MZB 2021-0813, MZB 2021-0814 (1 ♂, 1 ♀), type loc., 17-VI-1989, J. M. Salgado & D. Rodríguez leg. (ex coll. X. Bellés).

Remarks

Type series consisting of 54 ♂♂ and 75 ♀♀ from three cavities in Asturias ( Salgado & Fresneda, 2004b). Specimens of the type series deposited in other collections: ♂ holotype in the MHNG; paratypes in CZULE, FLC, FMNHC, MHNG, MNHNP, PMGC and XBC ( Salgado & Fresneda, 2004b; Fresneda & Salgado, 2016).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Coleoptera
Family	Leiodidae
Genus	Quaestus