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Género MelitaeaObservador
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In the area there are M.cinxia, M.deione, M.parthenoides, M.phoebe, M. celadussa.
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Phylan abbreviatusObservador
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Found indoors by a domestic cat, released outside.
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Corticarina similataObservador
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Caught in a pitfall trap.
Body length: 1.3 mm
BL=55/43.3 mm= 1,27 mm
Pronotum width/length ratio= 1,4
[López Fernández 2014]
Familia Latridiidae ERICHSON, 1842
• Parte superior del cuerpo pubescente y con las setas dispuestas en series.
• Clípeo situado más o menos en el mismo plano que la frente, y separados por una sutura poco profunda.
• Protórax sin orla cérea, y más o menos crenulado o dentado en sus márgenes.
• Élitros nunca carenados.
• Coxas anteriores contiguas.
Subfamilia Corticariinae Curtis, 1829
Antenas compuestas por 11 artejos
Primer segmento ventral liso, sin líneas femorales
Abdomen formado por 5 ó 6 segmentos, aunque a veces el 6o está oculto
Abdomen con seis esternitos visibles tanto en machos como en hembras.
Tibias anteriores de los machos con un pequeño diente situado en la mitad del lado interno
Corticarina Reitter, 1880
Pronoto poco transverso (relación anchura/longitud=1.4), mucho más estrecho que los élitros en su base.
Márgenes laterales ovalados. Foseta basal transversa y profunda; por lo general, aparecen otras dos fosetas más débiles en la proximidad de los ángulos posteriores.
L=1-1.7mm.
similata (Gyllenhal)
[https://coleonet.de/coleo/texte/corticarina.htm, key by Arved Lompe]
Pronotum narrow, slightly wider than long, slightly rounded at the sides.
Front tibiae of the ♂ with a tooth on the inside.
Head finely and sparsely dotted.
Larger species, usually over 1.5 mm long on average, the teeth of the front tibiae in the ♂ strong and usually in the middle or just below the middle.
[Of the 6 species listed from here onwards, only similata is recorded in Spain]
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Leptaleus rodriguesiObservador
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Caught in a pitfall trap.
Body length: 2.33 mm
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Caught in a pitfall trap.
Body length: 1.15 mm.
6 visible sternites.
[Key by Arved Lompe: https://coleonet.de/coleo/texte/pselaphinae.htm]
Tarsi 3-segmented.
Head and pronotum decorated differently (forehead without a triangular impression; pronotum not deeply depressed over the entire surface).
Tarsi segment 1 short, 2 and 3 long.
Antenna 11-membered, the 1st member freely visible.
Abdomen with 5 distinct tergites.
Hair on the upper side consists of non-branched hairs.
All trochanters are short, the femora are attached obliquely to the trochanters and lie close to the coxae.
Abdomen with well-developed lateral margins on the first three tergites.
Base of the 1st tergite with a maximum of 2 longitudinal keels.
Apex of the 1st antennal segment not or barely bulged.
Abdomen with 7 visible sternites in the ♂, 6 in the ♀.
Palps always small;
Abdomen elongated, flattened or shorter, stocky.
Tribe Euplectini.
Hind coxae almost touching each other.
Tarsi with a claw, often with a bristle next to it.
Antennae lobe symmetrical.
Body subparallel, forebody quite broad.
Basal pits of the pronotum connected to each other by a transverse furrow, the lateral pits not extended forward by longitudinal furrows.
Prosternum not keeled.
Underside of head normally hairy.
Forefemora without longitudinal keels on the front upper edge.
Elytra with 3, sometimes 4 basal pits each.
Base of the 1st tergite, and often also the 2nd, with a transverse impression, which is delimited on both sides by ± developed longitudinal keels.
Pronotum disc anteriorly without longitudinal furrow or pits.
Keels of the first two tergites tiny, difficult to see.
Abdomen no longer than the elytra, the 4th tergite a little shorter than the previous ones.
Pseudoplectus Reitt
Unique iberian species: Pseudoplectus perplexus
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Caught in a pitfall trap
2.6 mm
Apical end of labial pap narrow and long.
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Subgénero AstenusObservador
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Caught in a pitfall trap
3.2 mm
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Família ChironomidaeObservador
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Several femmales laying eggs in the roof of the car
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(c) Concha Sánchez
Recorded with a cell phone in mp3 very near to the insect.
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Heliophanus apiatusObservador
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Something bad happened to the flash
Ths spider is eating and aphid.
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Lamium purpureumObservador
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This observation refers to the plant. It could be Lamium amplexicaule, hybridum or L.purpureum.
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Anthophora crinipesObservador
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The big bee is a supposed male Anthophora dispar. This observation is dedicated to the smaller one.