Borovecia gadorensis Pierotti & Bellò

Pierotti, Helio, Bellò, Cesare & Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A., 2010, 2376, Zootaxa 2376, pp. 1-96 : 32-33

Borovecia gadorensis Pierotti & Bellò

( Figs. 6b, 9d, 28a–b, 53a, 65)

Borovecia gadorensis Pierotti & Bellò, 2001: 178 ; Alonso-Zarazaga, 2002: 24.

Diagnosis. Species of small size (3.5–4.2 mm), distinguished by subcylindrical body outline, rather depressed dorsally, covered with ochreous scales with evident golden shimmer, and by reclinate, robust setae distinctly widened at apex, rather spatuliform on elytral declivity. Aedeagus as in Figs. 28a–b, endophallic structures as in Fig. 9d, tegmen as in Fig. 6b; spermatheca as in Fig. 53a.

Distribution. Iberian endemite: south-eastern Spain (type locality: Sierra de Gádor, Almería). Spanish literature records. Almería: Sierra de Gádor (type loc.).

Material examined ( Fig. 65). Holotype male, labelled: 1) Almeria, Sierra de Gádor, Morrón de Mariné, m. 2200, 29.6.99, leg. Pierotti; 2) sotto Berberis sp. ; 3) Borovecia gadorensis Pierotti & Bellò , holotypus

( PIE). Other specimens: Spain: Almería: Sierra de Gádor, Morrón de Mariné, m. 2200, 30. VI.97 leg. Borovec (BEL); do., 29. VI.99, leg. Pierotti (BEL, PIE); do., 31.X.00, leg. Bellò (BEL); do., leg. Pierotti ( PIE).

Biology. Found between grasses under Berberis sp.

Genus Heteromeiropsis Pierotti & Bellò

Heteromeira Solari, 1955: 40 (partim); Pierotti & Bellò, 1998: 97 (partim); Alonso-Zarazaga & Lyal, 1999: 171 (partim).

Heteromeiropsis Pierotti & Bellò, 2004: 586 .

Type species: Heteromeira zariquieyi Solari, 1954 , by original designation.

For description see Pierotti & Bellò (2004). A genus with a trans-Pyrenaean distribution ( Fig. 67). Includes three species.

Diagnosis. Species of small to medium size (3.9–5.2 mm), characterised by elongate body and notched epistoma (a difference from Meira and Meirella ), pterygia hardly prominent, frontal sulcus distinct, sides of prorostrum dorsally flattened to near eye margin, frons distinctly higher than eye margin in lateral view, and endophallic structures disposed in an ostium group, two median groups and a gonoporal group (of periteloid type), characters that allow its distinction from any other Spanish periteline genus, in particular from Pseudomeira .