Troglocharinus ferreri codinai Zariquiey, 1917

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 : 89-90

Troglocharinus ferreri codinai Zariquiey, 1917 ( Figs. 23A–C , 73 )

Troglocharinus Ferreri ssp. Codinai Zariquiey, 1917: 291; fig. 5–7.

Current accepted name

Troglocharinus ferreri ferreri (Reitter, 1908) : Fresneda & Salgado, 2016: 192.

Type locality

Cova Fosca [original citation: “Cova Fosca de Gavá, en el valle de Joan, cerca de Gavá, partido municipal de San Feliu de Llobregat ”].

Type material

Possible syntypes: MZB 71-4742, MZB 78-1357 / MZB 78-1364, MZB 78-1467 / MZB 78-1469 (5 ♂♂, 7 ♀♀), type loc., 30-IX-1917, 14-X-1917, 21-X-1917, A. Guimjuan leg. (ex coll. R. Zariquiey).

Remarks

Zariquiey (1917) mentions as types two males and two females deposited in his collection but gives no other details. Subsequently, he notes the collection (A. Guimjuan leg.) of 35 specimens on 30 September and 14 and 21 October [1917], without details of where they are deposited.

Seven specimens in the MCNB collection have red labels printed with the inscription “ Typus ”. A further two specimens are identified as co-types: one has a red label printed with “Cotipus” and the other a hand-written red label stating “CO-TIPO”. Apart from one specimen ( MZB 78-1362 ), all the capture labels of these specimens indicate in the author’s hand-writing one of the three capture dates cited by Zariquiey (1917). We have located three further specimens not identified as belonging to the type series: MZB 71-4742 and MZB 78-1467, dated 14 October 1917 with the rest of the capture label identical to MZB 78-1357 (one with an inscription hand-written by Zariquiey stating “ Troglocharinus Ferreri ssp. Codinai nov”); and MZB 78-1364, with no collection date but with a capture label identical to MZB 78-1362 .

Escolà (1969) mentions a total of 10 specimens dated 21 October and two from 14 October (we have only been able to find five and three, respectively). He does not mention any of the specimens collected in September (two females, as the author of the description cites in the introduction), which would correspond to specimens MZB 78- 1361 and 78-1468.

In box 74 of the MNHNP general collection we have located at least three specimens with identical collection labels, but without labels that identify them as belonging to the type series. Jeannel (1924a) indicates textually “… type: cova fosca de Gava (coll. R. Zariquiey et coll. Biospeologica)”. In the MNCNM collection (box 28) we have also located two specimens (dated 14 and 17 October 1917) that lack labels that identify them as belonging to the type series .

In light of the information provided by Zariquiey (1917), including the introductory details, it is possible that the description was based on the series of 35 specimens mentioned at the end of the description, despite citing explicitly as “Tipos” only two undated males and two undated females.

Figures

FIGURES 23–25. Original labels associated to type specimens of Iberian Leptodirini: 23A–C. Troglocharinus ferreri codinai Zariquiey, 1917, Cova Fosca: 23A. possible syntype ♂ (MZB 78-1357); 23B. possible syntype ♀ (MZB 78-1360); 23C. possible syntype ♀ (MZB 78-1361); 24. Troglocharinus ferreri zariquieyi Jeannel, 1924, syntype ♀, Avenc de la Funiosa (MZB 78- 1350); 25A–B. Troglocharinus hustachei Jeannel, 1911, Cova del Gel: 25A. syntype ♂ (MZB 78-1930); 25B. possible syntype ♀ (MZB MZB 78-1931).

FIGURES 68–73. Type specimens of Iberian Leptodirini. Habitus photographs, dorsal view (scale bar: 1 mm): 68. Stygiophyes hansferyi Fresneda & Escolà, 2001, holotype ♂, Santorens, MSS 018 (MZB 2004-0950); 69. Troglocharinus españoli españoli Zariquiey, 1950, syntype ♀, Avenc d’Ancosa (MZB 78-2919); 70. Troglocharinus españoli olerdolai Lagar, 1952, holotype ♂, Avenc d’Olèrdola (MZB 78-2039); 71. Troglocharinus españoli pinyareti Zariquiey, 1950, syntype ♀, Avenc dels Pinyerets (MZB 71-2403); 72. Troglocharinus españoli roselli Lagar, 1952, syntype ♂,Avenc de Foix (MZB 78-2034); 73. Troglocharinus ferreri codinai Zariquiey, 1917, possible syntype ♂, Cova Fosca (MZB 78-1357).