Quaestus ( Quaestus ) acuminatus Salgado, 1999

Prieto-Manzanares, Miguel & Masó-Ros, Glòria, 2025, Annotated catalogue of type specimens of Iberian Leptodirini Lacordaire, 1854 (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Cholevinae) deposited in the Natural Science Museum of Barcelona (Spain), Zootaxa 5682 (1), pp. 1-102 : 32

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5682.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:34279617-8D03-47D2-972B-42F7D0C3702E
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16986550
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D42CA777-5404-CB4A-FF6D-FE6079DDF9E9
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Quaestus ( Quaestus ) acuminatus Salgado, 1999
status

Treatment

Quaestus ( Quaestus) acuminatus Salgado, 1999 View in CoL ( Fig. 41 View FIGURES 38–43 )

Quaestus ( Quaestus) acuminatus Salgado, 1999a: 211 View in CoL ; figs. 2–5.

Current accepted name

Quaestus acuminatus Salgado, 1999 View in CoL : Fresneda et al., 2024: 487.

Type locality

Cueva la Xiana [original citation: “ Cueva la Xiana ... in Tospe (Municipality of Arriondas, Asturias, Spain)”].

Type material

Paratypes: MZB 98-0901 / MZB 98-0907, MZB 2010-0178, MZB 2017-1385 / MZB 2017-1387 ( 4 ♂♂, 7 ♀♀), Cueva de Pico de Biesques , 9-IX-1995, J. M. Salgado & D. Rodríguez leg.

Remarks

Type series consisting of 177 ♂♂ and 303 ♀♀ from eight caves in Asturias ( Salgado, 1999a). Male holotype and female allotype deposited in the CZULE; paratypes deposited in other collections: ACC, CZULE, MNHNP and PMGC ( Salgado, 1999a). Fresneda & Salgado (2016) indicated that paratypes from the Cueva la Cueva and Cueva de los Padrones are deposited in the MCNB; nevertheless, we have only been able to find the specimens from the aforementioned Cueva de Pico de Biesques.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Coleoptera
Family	Leiodidae
Genus	Quaestus