<documentid="CC5C2AF81AC9392AF59AD1EBE2AEFFCB"ID-ISSN="11755334"IM.materialsCitations_approvedBy="felipe"IM.taxonomicNames_approvedBy="guilherme"checkinTime="1629666921007"checkinUser="felipe"docAuthor="Pierotti, Helio, Bellò, Cesare & Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A."docDate="2010"docId="DC0D225AFFC2FFD9FF16FD93FEFEF8B2"docLanguage="en"docName="zt02376p096.pdf"docOrigin="Zootaxa 2376"docStyle="DocumentStyle:D239614CE4198176A422035174489AB1.4:Zootaxa.2009-2012.monograph"docStyleId="D239614CE4198176A422035174489AB1"docStyleName="Zootaxa.2009-2012.monograph"docStyleVersion="4"docTitle="Meira medae Pierotti & Bellò & Alonso-Zarazaga 2010, sp. n."docType="treatment"docVersion="4"lastPageNumber="14"masterDocId="20345A22FFCFFFD4FF81FFE4FFF5FF8E"masterDocTitle="2376"masterLastPageNumber="96"masterPageNumber="1"pageNumber="14"updateTime="1720099200676"updateUser="guilherme"zenodo-license-document="CLOSED">
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<figureCitationid="CC9F8FC9FFC2FFD9FF1EFD7EFF0AFD3A"box="[159,255,666,692]"captionStart="FIGURES 2–3"captionStartId="52.[151,269,1917,1941]"captionTargetBox="[155,1435,192,1894]"captionTargetId="figure-53@52.[151,1456,187,1895]"captionTargetPageId="52"captionText="FIGURES 2–3. 2. Apex of left protibia: a. Meira medae; b. Pseudoperitelus espanoli; c. Euplister hybridus. 3. Apex of right metatibia: a. Pseudoperitelus espanoli; b. Euplister hybridus. Scale: 0.20 mm."pageId="13"pageNumber="14">Figs. 2a</figureCitation>
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<figureCitationid="CC9F8FC9FFC2FFD9FE8DFD7EFED9FD3A"box="[268,300,666,692]"captionStart="FIGURES 4–5"captionStartId="53.[151,269,1958,1982]"captionTargetBox="[189,1414,155,1935]"captionTargetId="figure-51@53.[184,1415,149,1941]"captionTargetPageId="53"captionText="FIGURES 4–5. 4. Antennal funicle and club: a. Meirella suturella; b. Meira medae. 5. Ventrites (schematic): a. Heteromeiropsis zariquieyi; b. Meira tarraconensis; c. Euplister hybridus. Scale: 0.50 mm."pageId="13"pageNumber="14">4b</figureCitation>
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. Dorsal vestiture composed of ochreous scales, strongly imbricate, with metallic shimmer; setae on elytral interstriae not very dense, suberect, aligned, narrow on dorsum and on declivity, elongate, not or hardly widened at apex. Rostrum transverse, epistomal keel present, pterygia very prominent; prorostrum high; frontal sulcus evident. Frons not or hardly lower than prorostrum, wide, with a median fovea. Eyes normal, rather flattened in front, elongate, prominent beyond the genae, with a glabrous periocular sulcus. Antennae with scape very robust, rather incrassate from base to apex; funicle (
<figureCitationid="CC9F8FC9FFC2FFD9FC70FB9EFBB2FB1A"box="[1009,1095,1146,1172]"captionStart="FIGURES 4–5"captionStartId="53.[151,269,1958,1982]"captionTargetBox="[189,1414,155,1935]"captionTargetId="figure-51@53.[184,1415,149,1941]"captionTargetPageId="53"captionText="FIGURES 4–5. 4. Antennal funicle and club: a. Meirella suturella; b. Meira medae. 5. Ventrites (schematic): a. Heteromeiropsis zariquieyi; b. Meira tarraconensis; c. Euplister hybridus. Scale: 0.50 mm."pageId="13"pageNumber="14">Fig. 4b</figureCitation>
) short and extremely robust, not or hardly narrower than scape, desmomeres 2–7 strongly transverse, all with elongate, narrow setae, at least the first 6 also with setae visibly widened and truncate at apex; club short and robust, not or hardly wider than funicle, first segment widely cup-shaped. Pronotum weakly transverse, moderately sinuate at sides, disc with irregular punctures completely covered by scales. Elytra subovoid, elongate, weakly rounded at sides, hardly depressed at base, convex on dorsum, with humeral calli more (male) or less (female) obsolete, striae with close punctures and interstriae almost flat, very finely punctate. Tibiae short and robust, protibiae on outer margin curved inwards before apex (
<figureCitationid="CC9F8FC9FFC2FFD9FD13FA76FD1FFA22"box="[658,746,1426,1452]"captionStart="FIGURES 2–3"captionStartId="52.[151,269,1917,1941]"captionTargetBox="[155,1435,192,1894]"captionTargetId="figure-53@52.[151,1456,187,1895]"captionTargetPageId="52"captionText="FIGURES 2–3. 2. Apex of left protibia: a. Meira medae; b. Pseudoperitelus espanoli; c. Euplister hybridus. 3. Apex of right metatibia: a. Pseudoperitelus espanoli; b. Euplister hybridus. Scale: 0.20 mm."pageId="13"pageNumber="14">Fig. 2a</figureCitation>
). Aedeagus in lateral view weakly arcuate, in dorsal view shortly and weakly tricuspidate at apex (
<figureCitationid="CC9F8FC9FFC2FFD9FDF0FA5EFD20FA5A"box="[625,725,1466,1492]"captionStart="FIGURES 12–13"captionStartId="58.[151,269,1961,1985]"captionTargetBox="[294,1291,206,1927]"captionTargetId="figure-50@58.[270,1317,194,1947]"captionTargetPageId="58"captionText="FIGURES 12–13. 12. Apex of aedeagus, dorsal view: a. Peritelus sphaeroides; b. Meira gerundana. 13. Meira medae: a. apex of aedeagus, dorsal view; b. hemisternites, dorsal view. Scale: 0.15 mm."pageId="13"pageNumber="14">Fig. 13a</figureCitation>
). Hemisternites as in
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; spermatheca as in
<figureCitationid="CC9F8FC9FFC2FFD9FA9BFA5EFA8BFA5A"box="[1306,1406,1466,1492]"captionStart="FIGURE 49"captionStartId="76.[151,255,1900,1924]"captionTargetBox="[243,1337,202,1872]"captionTargetId="figure-39@76.[237,1349,194,1877]"captionTargetPageId="76"captionText="FIGURE 49. Spermatheca: a. Gymnomorphus mononychus; b. Meira gerundana; c. M. medae; d. M. tarraconensis. Scale: 0.10 mm."pageId="13"pageNumber="14">Fig. 49c</figureCitation>
<figureCitationid="CC9F8FC9FFC2FFD9FB8BF9D6FB97F9C2"box="[1034,1122,1586,1612]"captionStart="FIGURE 69"captionStartId="91.[151,255,1051,1075]"captionTargetBox="[263,1322,196,1021]"captionTargetId="figure-46@91.[262,1325,194,1025]"captionTargetPageId="91"captionText="FIGURE 69. Locality records: ● Simo hirticornis; ̝ Meira gerundana; Meira medae; M. tarraconensis."pageId="13"pageNumber="14">Fig. 69</figureCitation>
). On the facing Catalonian coast this species seems to be replaced by
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