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Introduction

Six species of Osphya Illiger, 1807 (Melandryidae:Osphyinae) are currently included in the Europeanfauna (Nikitsky and Pollock, 2008; Konvicka, 2016b)and three of them are present in the Iberian Peninsula(Recalde Irurzun and Pérez Moreno, 2011; Viñolas

et al., 2014). O. bipunctata (Fabricius, 1775) is broadlydistributed in Europe; O. aeneipennis Kriechbaumer,1848 is known from Alps to Pyrenees; O. aerata Seid-litz, 1898 from Armenia and Azerbaijan (outside ofEurope from Iran); O. brusteli Konvicka, 2016 fromcontinental Greece and Macedonia; O. lehnertae Kon-vicka, 2014 from the Peloponnese Peninsula (Greece);

Heteropterus Revista de Entomología

Heteropterus Rev. Entomol.2017 17(1): 41-52

On Osphya vandalitiae (Kraatz, 1868)

and the Iberian Osphyinae

(Coleoptera: Melandryidae)

J.I. RECALDE IRURZUN1, O. KONVICKA2,3, J.L. TORRES4

1C/Andreszar 21; 31610 Villava-Atarrabia (Navarra); Spain; E-mail: [email protected]úty 1959; CZ-760 01 Zlín; Czech Republic; E-mail: [email protected]

3Institute of Entomology; Biology Centre AS CR; Branisovska 31; CZ-370 05 Ceské Budejovice; Czech Republic4C/Azorín 11; 11300 La Línea (Cádiz); Spain; E-mail: [email protected]

ISSN: 1579-0681

Abstract

Osphya vandalitiae (Kraatz, 1868), a not well known false darkling beetle from southern Iberian Peninsula, is recordedfrom ten new localities of Portugal and Spain. Male genitalia as well as tergite and stenite V of both sexes areillustrated. The checklist of the Iberian Osphyinae species and their updated distribution is compiled.

Key words: Coleoptera, Melandryidae, Osphyinae, Osphya vandalitiae, Iberian Peninsula, Portugal, Spain,faunistics, distribution.

Resumen

Acerca de Osphya vandalitiae (Kraatz, 1868) y los Osphyinae ibéricos (Coleoptera: Melandryidae)

Osphya vandalitiae (Kraatz, 1868), un melándrido poco conocido del sur de la Península Ibérica, se registra de dieznuevas localidades de Portugal y España. Se ilustra la genitalia del macho así como el quinto terguito y esternito delos dos sexos. Se recopila y actualiza la lista de especies de Osphyinae ibéricos y su distribución.

Palabras clave: Coleoptera, Melandryidae, Osphyinae, Osphya vandalitiae, Península Ibérica, Portugal, España,faunística, distribución.

Laburpena

Osphya vandalitiae (Kraatz, 1868) eta iberiar Osphyinae-ri buruz (Coleoptera: Melandryidae)

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Gako-hitzak: Coleoptera, Melandryidae, Osphyinae, Osphya vandalitiae, Iberiar Penintsula, Portugal, Espainia,faunistika, banaketa.

and O. vandalitiae (Kraatz, 1868) from southernIberian Peninsula.

Recent papers on European Osphya have describedin detail the differences among most of the species,notably the morphology of tergite and ventrite Vand/or apex of aedeagus of O. bipunctata, O. brusteli,O. lehnertae and O. aeneipennis (Gourves and Brustel,2001; Konvicka, 2014, 2016b).

Conversely, papers dealing with the morphology ofO. vandalitiae are almost restricted to XIX centuryworks related with its description and identification asgood species (Kraatz, 1868; Uhagón, 1887; Seidlitz,1896) and mainly focused on size, un-thickened legs,elytral gloss, pubescence, and some other chromaticaspects. We do not know any subsequent significantdata. Also the distribution of the species is mainlybased on old and scarce records (see compilations in:Fuente, 1933; Recalde Irurzun and Pérez Moreno,2011). Therefore, O. vandalitiae still remains being anot well known species.

Osphya vandalitiae: History

of its discovery and original

description

In the volume 9 of Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift,H. von Kiessenwetter relates that not less than20 French and German entomologists agreed andparticipated on entomological explorations in Spainduring the year 1865. The German team includedKiessenwetter himself, G. Seidlitz, H. Kraatz, H. Cle-mens Müller and H. Graf von Hoffmannseg. Theirexcursion started in spring and they mainly concen-trated their activities in different areas of Andalusia.In the page 385, von Kiessenwetter mentions thecatch of some individuals of Osphya that refers toO. aeneipennis Kriechbaumer [1848] (Kiessenwetter,1865; Seidlitz, 1896). More details of the catches are:Granada, on May the 21th, outside the walls of LaAlhambra, Darro valley on the way to «fuenta de losavellanas», on deciduous shrubs (Kiessenwetter, 1865;Kraatz, 1868; Seidlitz, 1896).

It appears that the whole group was present that day.Anyhow, Kraatz seems to have kept some individuals(Kraatz, 1868; Gaedike, 1986: 2 syntypes, Granada,Kraatz leg.), and probably also Seidlitz (Seidlitz, 1896:1 male, 2 females).

Few years later Kraatz (1868) wrote on the variabilityand differences of the European Nothus Olivier, 1811

(= Osphya Illiger, 1807) known until that time (bipunc-

tata, aeneipennis and the individuals from Andalusia).In those years, the real or supposed variability ofO. bipunctata and O. aeneipennis had led to consider thepossibility of unifying the forms of Osphya under oneor two species. Kraatz did not share such opinionand proposed, cautiously, the name vandalitiae forthe Andalusian forms («...which can remain even if itturns out later the necessity of an unification»).

«Nach alledem wage ich es noch keineswegs, all drei oder nur

zwei von den besprochenen Formen zu vereinigen, und schlage

für die andalusische den Namen Vandalitiae vor, welcher ihr

auch bleiben kann, falls sich später die Nothwendigkeit einer

Vereinigung herausstellen sollte.» (Kraatz, 1868).

Hereinafter we extract the main points of the unusualdescription of O. vandalitiae by Kraatz:

«[...]. The largest specimens of the Andalusian Nothus are

about as big as the smallest of the bipunctatus, [they] are

cylindrical, with much of the elytra and the abdomen punctured.

The elytra are beautiful metallic green and grey haired; the grey

hairs are stronger along the suture and on the outward half of

the elytra and weaker on the apex [...]». «Spanish specimens

with thickened legs, so far as I know, have not been captured

by us». «[...] [the pronotum edge] being reddish everywhere in

my Andalusian [specimens]».

Some years later, in the fifth volume devoted toColeoptera of Naturgerchichte der Insecten Deutschlands,Seidlitz (1896) regards O. vandalitiae as a good speciesand clearly separates it from O. bipunctata and O. aenei-

pennis because of the morphology of the pronotum,among other characters.

Material and methods

Recorded individuals of Osphya species from newlocalities were mainly found by direct collecting onshrubs or beating flowery bushes (as for exampleCistus sp. and Crataegus sp.), and more rarely by flightinterception traps. Conopalpus species records are basedon individuals trapped using window, multi-funneland baited-aerial traps.

The distribution maps have been drawn based onSchweizer Weltatlas: © SWISS WORLD ATLASinteractive 2010-2015 (http://schweizerweltatlas.ch).

Used abbreviations of institutions:

MNCN - Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales,Madrid.

CEUA -Colección Entomológica de la Universidadde Alicante.

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Osphya vandalitiae: Studied

material

As far as we know, no concrete new records of O. van-

dalitiae have been published since the XIX century.Next, we provide a list of new localities based on asignificant amount of specific records from Spain andPortugal (map of Fig. 7a).

Portugal: Faro: São Brás de Alportel, Machados, 11.V.2011,1 spec., B. Zbuzek leg., T. Ruzicka coll., O. Konvicka det.;Castelhana -Algibre river, 2.-3.V.2013, 48 spec., on floweringCistus, J. Pelikán leg., O. Konvicka det., O. Konvicka coll. (18spec.) and J. Pelikán coll. (30 spec.), and 1 spec., J. Plechác leg.& coll., O. Konvicka det.; Bordeira (1.6 Km NE), 6.V.2015,1 spec., J. Pelikán leg., det. & coll.; Barranco do Velho(0.5 Km S), 4.-5.V.2013, 2 spec., J. Pelikán leg., det. & coll.Beja: 15 km S of Serpa, Limas river, 5.-6.V.2013, 1 spec.,J. Pelikán leg. & coll., O. Konvicka det.; Odemira (3.7 Km NE),4.-5.V.2015, 1 spec., J. Pelikán leg., det. & coll.

Spain: Granada: Guejar Sierra, Vda. La Estrella, 28.VI.1983,1 spec., M.Á. Alonso Zarazaga leg. & det., MNCN coll.

Cádiz: San Roque, at a pond, 3.VI. 1988, 1 spec., J.L. Torresleg., det. & coll. Málaga: Gaucín, road from Manilva to Gaucín,6.VI.1989, 12 spec., beaten from trees on the banks of theGenal river, J.L. Torres leg., J.I. Recalde det. & coll. (10 spec.)and J.L. Torres leg., det. & coll. (2 spec.); Algatocín, 22.VI.2010,1 spec., R. Yus Ramos leg., J.I. Recalde det. & coll.

The studied specimens show the following chromaticvariability:

Males:

- Head black, with yellow epistoma. Pronotum blackwith orange lateral sides. Black femora.

- Yellow color progresses from epistoma to fore-head. Pronotum black but fully bordered of yellow.Femora yellow with dark apex.

- Head black, with yellow epistoma. Pronotum black,fully bordered of yellow, with yellow longitudinalstrip in the middle of the pronotum. Femora yellowwith dark apex (Fig. 1a).

Females:

- Head black with no yellow epistoma. Pronotum,femora and tibiae orange (Fig 1b).

- Head black with no yellow epistoma. Pronotumblack, more or less bordered of yellow. Femorapale or dark.

- Head black, with yellow epistoma. Pronotum black,fully bordered of yellow, with yellow longitudinalstrip in the middle of the pronotum. Femora yellowwith dark apex. Pale tibiae.

All the studied individuals show pale tibiae, and

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FIGURE 1. Osphya vandalitiae (Kraatz, 1868): (a) Male, habitus; (b) Female, habitus; (c) Female, brown habitus (Photo: V. Mihal).

(b)

(a)

(c)

normal (un-thickened) femora. The color of elytra isnormally green-blue or blue metallic. Two out ofseventy individuals (both of them females) showorange-brown colored head, pronotum, legs andelytra (Fig. 1c).

Iberian Osphyinae

The Iberian Osphyinae is a small group of falsedarkling beetles (two genera and five species) but sofar little studied. Both the Iberian-Balearic and thePalaearctic catalogues (Fuente, 1933; Nikitsky andPollock, 2008) mention two/three species from Spainand/or Portugal: Conopalpus brevicollis Kraatz, 1855,Osphya vandalitiae (Kraatz, 1868) and Osphya bipunctata

(Fabricius, 1775). In the last years, and as a result ofseveral field studies focused on the fauna of saproxylicbeetles, two additional species have been discoveredin Spain (Conopalpus testaceus (Olivier, 1790) and Osphya

aeneipennis Kriechbaumer, 1848); moreover, Osphya

bipunctata, a doubtfully recorded species from theIberian Peninsula, has been found in the last decadein a bunch of localities of the Pre-Pyrenean andBasque Mountains, as well as in central and northernIberian mountain ranges (e.g.: Recalde Irurzun andPérez Moreno, 2006, 2011; De la Rosa, 2013; Viñolaset al., 2014).

Recorded localities of the regions or provinces whereevery species is known to occur are compiled in thefollowing chronological checklists:

A. Genus Conopalpus Gyllenhal, 1810

A.1. Conopalpus brevicollis Kraatz, 1855

(Fig. 2a)

PREVIOUS RECORDS: Portugal. Vila Real: Anta (Corrêade Barros, 1908); «Portugal» (Nikitsky and Pollock,2008). Spain. Córdoba: Sierra de Códoba (Kiesen-wetter, 1865), «Córdoba» (Recalde Irurzun andPérez Moreno, 2011); «Andalucía» (Fuente, 1933);A Coruña: Eiravella (Baselga and Novoa, 2004);«Spain» (Nikitsky and Pollock, 2008); Ciudad Real:P.N. Cabañeros (Ricarte et al., 2009), Fuencaliente (Dela Rosa, 2013); La Rioja: Lumbreras (Pérez-Morenoand Moreno-Grijalba, 2009), Hayedo de Tobía (Re-calde Irurzun and Pérez Moreno, 2011); Álava: Sierrade Entzia (Recalde Irurzun and Pérez Moreno, 2011);

Navarra: Alkotz, Bertiz, Garde, Sierra de Andía,Oroz-Betelu/Olaldea and Garralda (Recalde Irurzunand Pérez Moreno, 2011; Recalde Irurzun and SanMartín Moreno, 2016); Barcelona: Sierra del Mont-negre (Diéguez Fernández, 2011), Fogars de Montclús,Sesferres and Sant Marçal (Viñolas et al., 2012a);Girona: La Jonquera (Viñolas et al., 2012b); Ávila: ElTiemblo (De la Rosa, 2013); Madrid: Somosierra andMontejo de la Sierra (De la Rosa, 2013); Tarragona:Vimbodí i Poblet (Viñolas et al., 2013); Huesca: SanJuan de la Peña (Diéguez Fernández, 2014).

NEW RECORDS: Spain. Salamanca: Batuecas-Peña deFrancia Natural Park, VI.2012, 4 spec., found bywindow traps on Quercus rotundifolia, E. Micó leg. &det., CEUA coll. Navarra: Iriso, VI./VII.2014, 6 spec.,cought by interception traps on old oaks, J.I. Recalde& A.F. San Martín leg., J.I. Recalde det. & coll.; Irañeta,V.2011, 1 spec., cought by window traps in a Quercus

humilis wood pasture, J.I. Recalde & A.F. San Martín leg.,J.I. Recalde det. & coll.; Valdorva, spring 2015, 1 spec.,J.I. Recalde & A.F. San Martín leg., J.I. Recalde det. &coll.

C. brevicollis appears to occur in most part of theIberian Peninsula, associated to forests of deciduous(map of Fig. 7b). Based on our experience in theregion of Navarre (north Spain), it is a never frequentbut widespread element present in Atlantic, sub-Me-diterranean and supra-Mediterranean Iberian forests.Its occurs in southwest Europe, from Portugal untilwest Balkan Peninsula. It is also present in southGermany (Nikitsky and Pollock, 2008) and there isone old record from Austria (Konvicka, 2016a).

A.2. Conopalpus testaceus (Olivier, 1790)

(Figs. 2b-c)

PREVIOUS RECORDS: Spain. Navarra: Lizaso, Sierra deAndía, Bosque de Irati and Garralda (Recalde Irurzunand Pérez-Moreno, 2006, 2011); La Rioja: Lumbreras(Recalde Irurzun and Pérez-Moreno, 2006, 2011).Madrid: Somosierra (De la Rosa, 2013).

NEW RECORDS: Spain. Lleida: Bossots (Portillon),Vall d’Aran, VII.2014, 2 spec., H. Brustel leg. & det.

In Spain it occurs in northern wet forests of deci-duous and in some areas of the Central Iberian Rangewhere the populations of C. testaceus are probablyscattered and/or isolated (map of Fig. 7c). C. testaceus

is a widely distributed European species (Nikitsky andPollock, 2008).


B. Genus Osphya Illiger, 1807

B.1. Osphya vandalitiae (Kraatz, 1868)

(Figs. 1a-c)

ALL RECORDS: Portugal. Faro: Serra de Monchique(Oliveira, 1884), Corte do Gago (Jacinto, 2015), SãoBrás de Alportel, Castelhana, Bordeira and Barrancodo Velho (this paper); «Portugal» (Nikitsky andPollock, 2008); Beja: Serpa, Odemira (this paper).Spain. Granada: vicinity of Granada City (Kiesen-wetter, 1865, as Osphya aeneipennis; Kraatz, 1868; Seid-litz, 1896), Guejar Sierra (this paper); Badajoz: Oli-venza (Uhagón, 1887; Fuente, 1933); «Spain» (Nikitskyand Pollock, 2008); Málaga: Gaucín and Algatocín(this paper); Cádiz: San Roque (this paper).

NOTE: According to Viñolas et al. (2014) the Kiessen-wetter’s record should be found in the province of Jaen(not in Granada). Although very probably O. vandalitiae

occurs in Jaen, Kiesenwetter says «In dem Darrothalle auf

dem Wege nach der Fuenta de los avellanas» and, for sure, refersto a route near the Alhambra de Granada where it exists

a popular fountain called «Fuente del avellano» that someforeign travelers mentioned as «Fuente de los avellanos»(e.g.: Ford, 1847). All in all, both Kraatz (1868) and Seidlitz(1896) also clearly stated that the catches took place inGranada, not far from the Alhambra.

All the known records of this species are fromsouthern areas of Spain and Portugal (map ofFig. 7a).

B.2. Osphya bipunctata (Fabricius, 1775)

(Figs. 3a-e)

PREVIOUS RECORDS: Spain. «Spain» (Nikitsky andPollock, 2008); La Rioja: Lumbreras (Pérez-Morenoand Moreno-Grijalba, 2009), Hayedo de Tobía (Re-calde Irurzun and Pérez Moreno, 2011); Álava: Sierrade Entzia (Recalde Irurzun and Pérez Moreno, 2011);Navarra: Larraona, Sierra de Urbasa, Goñi, Sierra deAndía, Oroz-Betelu/Olaldea and Garralda (RecaldeIrurzun and Pérez Moreno, 2011); Barcelona: Fogarsde Montclús, Sesferres and Sant Marçal (Viñolas et al.,2012a); Girona: Viladrau (Viñolas et al., 2012a), La


(c)(a)

(b)

FIGURE 2. (a) Conopalpus brevicollis Kratz, 1855, habitus; (b)-(c) Conopalpus testaceus (Olivier, 1790): (b) Testaceous elytra habitus;(c) Dark elytra habitus (Photo: V. Kabourek).

Jonquera (Viñolas et al., 2012b); Madrid: Montejo dela Sierra (De la Rosa, 2013).

NEW RECORDS: Spain. Navarra: Irañeta, V.2011,2 spec., cought by window traps in a Quercus humilis

wood pasture, J.I. Recalde & A.F. San Martín leg., J.I.Recalde det. & coll. La Rioja: Villoslada de Cameros,6.VI.2015, 1 spec., in window trap in a Quercus pyre-

naica wood pasture, I. Pérez-Moreno, A.F. San Martín& J.I. Recalde leg., J.I. Recalde det., Universidad de LaRioja coll.

The Iberian distribution of O. bipunctata is probablysimilar to that of C. testaceus: moist northern forestsof deciduous (Montseny range, Urbasa-Andía-Entziarange, Pre-Pyrenean mountains, northern Iberianrange) plus, probably scattered, populations in somemountains of the Iberian interior (map of Fig. 7d).In the north of Navarre it is not a rare species and


FIGURE 3. Osphya bipunctata (Fabricius, 1775): (a)-(b) Male, habitus: (a) Hypertelic; (b) Non hypertelic; (c)-(e) Female, habitus(Photo: V. Kabourek).

(b)(a)

(c) (e)(d)

FIGURE 4. Osphya aeneipennis Kriechbaumer, 1848: (a) Male,habitus; (b) Female, habitus (Photo: V. Kabourek).

(b)(a)

can be locally frequent during spring on Crataegus

flowers of wood pastures. It is a widespread speciesof Eurosiberian distribution occurring from the GreatBritain and Spain to western Siberia (Nikitsky andPollock, 2008).

B.3. Osphya aeneipennis Kriechbaumer, 1848

(Figs. 4a-b)

PREVIOUS RECORDS: Spain. Barcelona: Saldes (Viño-las et al., 2014).

This species occurs in south-east France, southSwitzerland, Austria and north Italy (Nikitsky andPollock, 2008; Brustel, 2014; Andreas Sánchez, com.pers.). French records from eastern Pyrenees areasare restricted to the comarca of The Conflent(Department of Pyrénées Orientales: Brustel, 2014).

Two years ago a female of O. aeneipennis was re-corded from east-Pyrenean mountains, in the northof the Spanish Catalonia (Viñolas et al., 2014) (map ofFig. 7c).

Key to the Iberian Osphyinae

Soft bodied elongate beetles, somehow resemblingCantharidae. Some species show green or bluemetallic colored elytra while others can be yellowishto rusty brown or blackish. Antennae long and fili-form. Head distinctly narrowed behind the eyes.Tarsal claws strongly toothed. Larvae with stronglycleft maxila and a chitinized dorsal bulge on the ninthabdominal segment (Viedma, 1965; Crowson, 1966).


(1) Antennae 10-segmented. Eyes with interfacetal setae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 (Conopalpus Gyllenhal, 1810)

- Antennae 11-segmented. Eyes glabrous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 (Osphya Illiger, 1807)

(2) The second and thirth antennomeres are short and of quite similar length. Fourth antennomere is 2 timeslonger than second and third. Pronotum narrower than elytra. Elytra dark with metallic hue (Fig. 2a).Smaller size (3.5-4 mm) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C. brevicollis Kraatz, 1855

- Thirth antennomere distinctly longer than the second and almost as long as fourth. Pronotum slightlynarrower than elytral base. Elytra can be testaceous or dark as the previous species but with no metallichue (Figs. 2b-c). Larger size (5-7 mm) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C. testaceus (Olivier, 1790)

(3) The anterior part of the pronotum strongly bulged in transverse direction and with the enlarged lateralsides directed diagonally downwards. Elytra with metallic hue (very seldom not metallic, but orange-brown) (Figs. 1a-c). Elytral pubescence greyish to light yellowish, long and decumbent, more dense on thesides, along the suture and on the pre-apical area. Hind hips with a narrow smooth transversal furrow.Males with hind femora strongly enlarged are so far unknown. Apex of tergite V in females, stronglysinuated (Fig. 5b). Apex of edeagus rhomboid, kite-shaped (Fig. 5e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O. vandalitiae (Kraatz, 1868)

- The anterior part of the pronotum slightly bulged in transverse direction with the apical part almostnot bulged; the flattened lateral sides sub-horizontal. Hind hips with a broad smooth transversal furrow.Elytra with or without metallic hue. Some males with hind femora as in females, while others with thickenedhind femora . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

(4) Elytra with no metallic hue, dorsal setation short, greyish, and more decumbent. Base of pronotumundistinctly margined. Punctuation of the pronotum fine and dense, coarser in elytra. In females, apex oftergite V quite broadly rounded. Apex of aedeagus little or no enlarged. A very variable species both ofcolouring and size (Figs. 3a-e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O. bipunctata (Fabricius, 1775)

- Elytra with blueish or greenish metallic hue and with semi-erected pubescence. Base of pronotumdistinctly margined. Pronotum more sparse and somewhat more coarsely punctated. Male femora, usually,swollen (Figs. 4a-b). In females, apex of tergite V less broadly rounded, parable-shaped (Fig. 6b). Apex ofaedeagus bulb-shaped (Fig. 6e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O. aeneipennis Kriechbaumer, 1848

Acknowledgements

The authors sincerely acknowledge the kind collab-oration of the following colleagues and friends: JanPelikán (Hradec Králové, Czech Republic) because ofproviding a bunch of new records of O. vandalitiae;Tomáš Ruzicka (Praha, Czech Republic) for providinga record; Vít Kabourek (Zlín, Czech Republic) forproviding 10 of the pictures and Vlastimil Mihal (Pre-rov, Czech Republic) for taking 9 of the photos usedin this paper; José Manuel Diéguez (Barcelona, Spain)for sending us one individual of O. vandalitiae; AndreasHerrmann (Stade, Germany) and Frank Raue (Karls-ruhe, Germany) helped us with the old German texts;Hervé Brustel (Toulouse, France) and Estefanía Micó(Alicante, Spain) provided us with interesting newrecords of Conopalpus; Antonio Verdugo (Cádiz,Spain), José Manuel Grosso-Silva (Porto, Portugal)and Fernando Prieto (Sanxenxo, Spain) because ofgood bibliography and information; Enar Recalde(Villava, Spain) improved the text; and the colleaguesAntonio San Martín (Pamplona, Spain) and Ignacio

Pérez-Moreno (Logroño, Spain) kindly allowed us toinclude here our new records from Navarra and LaRioja. Andreas Sánchez provided us with informationabout the distribution of O. aeneipennis in Switzerland.Finally, we very much acknowledge Mercedes París(MNCN, Madrid) for her kind and informativesupport.

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FIGURE 6. Osphya aeneipennis Kriechbaumer, 1848: (a)-(b) Female: (a) Ventrite V; (b) Tergite V; (c)-(e) Male: (c) Tergite V;(d) Ventrite V; (e) Aedeagus, with detail of apex (Photo: V. Mihal).

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FIGURE 7. Known records in the Iberian Peninsula of: (a) Osphya vandalitiae (Kraatz, 1868); (b) Conopalpus brevicollis Kratz, 1855.

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FIGURE 7 (CONT.). Known records in the Iberian Peninsula of: (c) Conopalpus testaceus (Olivier, 1790) ( ) and Osphya aeneipennisKriechbaumer, 1848 (%); (d) Osphya bipunctata (Fabricius, 1775).

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