Mordellistena (s. str.) balearica Compte, 1985

Selnekovic, David & Kodada, Jan, 2019, Taxonomic revision of Mordellistenahirtipes species complex with new distribution records (Insecta, Coleoptera, Mordellidae), ZooKeys 854, pp. 89-118 : 89

Mordellistena (s. str.) balearica Compte, 1985 Fig. 8

Mordellistena balearica Compte, 1985: 63-64 (original description); Horák 2008: 96 (distribution).

Type locality.

Palma de Mallorca, Majorca.

Type depository.

According to the original description ( Compte 1985), holotype should be deposited in MNCN. However, despite of the effort of the curator, the specimen was not found.

Diagnosis.

Mordellistena balearica was described based on a single male specimen from Mallorca. According to the original description, this species closely resembles M. pseudohirtipes and can be distinguished from this species by longer antennae (antennomeres V–X two times longer than wide) and different shape of parameres (Fig. 8) ( Compte 1985). All characters mentioned in the original description suggest that this taxon is conspecific with M. pseudohirtipes ; unfortunately, the authors did not have the opportunity to study the type.

Distribution.

Known only from type locality.

Remarks.

Compte (1985) mentioned following information: "This specimen, together with other specimens collected by P. López in Majorca, which current location I don’t know, was studied by the specialist Mr Ermisch, who considered it as a new species for science, called M. balearica , a name that seems to have remained in litteris". There are several specimens collected by P López in Mallorca in Ermisch’s collection (SNSD) labelled by Ermisch as M. balearica which in fact all belong to M. thuringiaca Ermisch, 1963.