Mythenteles tamaragua Suárez, 2025

Mythenteles tamaragua Suárez , sp. nov.

( Fig. 3a–f View FIGURE 3 )

Type-material. Holotype ♂ (DZUL-47471; pinned) from SPAIN: Canary Islands, Tenerife, Pedro Méndez , 28.2315ºN, - 16.6684ºW, 14.VI.2024, DZUL leg GoogleMaps . Paratypes 11♂ 6♀ (DZUL-51007) from SPAIN: Canary Islands, Tenerife , Cañada Blanca , 28.2321ºN, - 16.6258ºW, 7.VI.1995, N. Zurita leg. GoogleMaps

Diagnosis. This species differs from Mythenteles signifera Evenhuis & Kettani, 2018 (Chefchaouen, Morocco), M. hispanicola Evenhuis & Blasco-Zumeta, 2003 (Salamanca and Zaragoza, Spain), and M. infrequens Evenhuis & Blasco-Zumeta, 2003 (Málaga and Zaragoza, Spain) by having a completely black scutellum. This species is closer to M. andalusica Gibbs, 2007 (Málaga, Granada, and Salamanca, Spain) by having black mesonotum and scutellum but differs by having a longer Sc, ending at level slightly before than origin of vein R 2+3, and by having different genitalia (i.e., epandrium without posterior depression in ventral view and aedeagal bulb with only two lateral rami).

Description

Male ( Fig. 3a View FIGURE 3 ). Length: 0.7–0.8 mm. Wing: 0.8 mm. Head: as long as high in lateral view; eyes dichoptic; occiput and postgena black; frons black, face black with yellow margins; tip of oral margin black; antennae black; scape short, subrectangular; pedicel cylindrical, as wide as long; first flagellomere subconical, length 1.5× width; second flagellomere subcylindrical, two-third length of first flagellomere; postmentum black; clypeus black; proboscis black, length 0.5× head length; palpus not evident.

Thorax: Mesonotum shiny black; humeral callus yellow; scutellum shiny black with a yellow lateral band posteriorly; mesonotum and dorsum of scutellum with short fine and light brown hairs; pleura bare, black with yellow marks to on following: upper half of metepisternum and meron, anterolateral margin of proepimeron, upper margin of anepisternum and anepimeron; halter stem dark grey, knob yellow.

Legs: Shiny black.

Wing ( Fig. 3b View FIGURE 3 ): length 2.45× width, elongate, hyaline; veins brown; costa ends slightly beyond end of R 4+5; vein Sc incomplete, ending at level slightly before than origin of vein R 2+3; Rs connected with R 1; R 4+5 straight to wing margin; vein M 1 curved toward wing margin; M 2 straight to wing margin; cell dm open apically; CuP thin, straight to wing margin; anal cell open at wing margin; fringe of hair on posterior margin of wing homogenous in length, but becoming more sparse towards base.

Abdomen: All tergites black, with a thin yellow band posteriorly, with scattered brownish-yellow hairs; sternites black.

Terminalia ( Fig.3c–e View FIGURE 3 ):Epandrium dark brown, U-shaped in ventral view.Epandrium in lateral view subtriangular, with thorn like process on ventral surface, darkly sclerotized apically; gonocoxa in lateral view C-shaped; lateral arms of parameral sheath extending well beyond gonocoxa, longer than aedeagal bulb; parameral sheath V-shaped; aedeagus long, thin, recurved 90° dorsally; aedeagal bulb rectangular, one-third length of lateral parameral arms; aedeagal apodeme cylindrical, darkly sclerotized.

Female. Similar to male but higher in length: body 1.1–1.3 mm, wing: 1.0– 1.1 mm. Terminalia ( Fig. 3f View FIGURE 3 ): genital fork thin, U-shaped, sclerotized laterally; two well developed spermatheca, spheroid, sclerotized brown, as long as wide; apical spermathecal duct thin, transparent; sperm pump near spermathecal reservoir, transparent, not sclerotized apically or basally.

Material examined. SPAIN: Canary Islands, Gran Canaria, Degollada del Salado , 27.9706ºN, - 15.5744ºW, 27. V.2024, 1♂ 1♀ (DZUL-54382), Ecolab leg. GoogleMaps ; El Pinillo , 28.0396ºN, - 15.6054ºW, 21. VI.2024, 1♂ (DZUL-53919), Ecolab leg. GoogleMaps ; Hoyas del Cavadero , 28.0454ºN, - 15.6207ºW, 22. VI.2022, 1♀ (DZUL-50906), Ecolab leg. GoogleMaps ; Los Corrales , 28.0216ºN, - 15.6041ºW, 17. VI.2024, 1♀ (DZUL-53534), Ecolab leg. GoogleMaps ; Paredones del Salado , 27.9681ºN, - 15.5726ºW, 27. V.2024, 1♂ 1♀ (DZUL-54178, DZUL-54217), Ecolab leg. GoogleMaps Tenerife, Arenas Negras , 28.2922ºN, - 16.5576ºW, 3. VI.1995, 1♂ 2♀ (DZUL-51015), P. Oromí leg.; Barranco del Riachuelo , 28.2108ºN, - 16.6233ºW, 8. VI.1995, 1♂ (DZUL-20608), A. Camacho leg. GoogleMaps ; Cañada Blanca , 28.2321ºN, - 16.6258ºW, 14. VI.2024, 1♀ (DZUL-47702), DZUL leg GoogleMaps .; Cañada de Diego Hernández , 28.2328ºN, - 16.5597ºW, 4.VII.1996, 1♀ (DZUL-51013), M. Arechavaleta leg. GoogleMaps ; Llano de la Santidad , 28.2234ºN, - 16.6876ºW, 29. VI.1995, 1♀ (DZUL-12248), N. Zurita leg. GoogleMaps ; Malpaís del Sanatorio , 28.2328ºN, - 16.6037ºW, 3. VI.1995, 1♂ 2♀ (DZUL-51016), M.Arechavaleta leg. GoogleMaps ; 14. VI.2024, 1♂ 1♀ (DZUL-47896), DZUL leg .; Montaña Negra , 28.3085ºN, - 16.605ºW, 11. VI.1995, 1♂ 1♀ (DZUL-51019), M. Arechavaleta leg. GoogleMaps ; Risco Verde , 28.2621ºN, - 16.5512ºW, 3. VI.1995, 2♀ (DZUL-13083, 51021), M. Arechavaleta leg. GoogleMaps ; Vueltas del Carnero , 28.2583ºN, - 16.6057ºW, 15.XII.1995, 1♀ (DZUL-20329), N. Zurita leg. GoogleMaps

Etymology: The specific epithet refers to the Canarian aboriginal word ‘tamaragua’, which was used as a way of salute to receive guests. It is a noun in apposition.

Distribution: Gran Canaria and Tenerife .