Berberomeloe nazari Sanchez-Vialas, Calatayud-Mascarell, Ruiz, Recuero, & Garcia-Paris 2026, sp. nov.

Berberomeloe nazari Sánchez-Vialas, Calatayud-Mascarell, Ruiz, Recuero, and García-París, sp. nov. (C 1 lineage) Type material. Holotype: Male, labeled: Spain, Málaga, Río de la Miel, 36°47'40.9"N 03°46'24.5"W, 16 - IV- 2024, Sánchez Vialas, A. leg. [white label, printed]; MNCN_Ent 429955 [white label, printed]; Holotypus, Berberomeloe nazari Sánchez-Vialas, Calatayud-Mascarell, Ruiz, Recuero, & García-París des. 2025 [white label, printed]. Preserved in absolute ethanol at the Entomological collection of the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid. — Paratypes (34 exx, all held at the Entomological collection of the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid): 1 male and 5 females. labeled: Málaga, Río de la Miel, 36°47'40.9"N 03°46'24.5"W, 16 - IV- 2024, Sánchez Vialas, A. leg. [white label, printed]; MNCN_Ent 429956 –429961 [white label, printed] (preserved in ethanol). – 1 male and 1 female, labeled: Málaga, Río de la Miel, 36°47'32.23"N 03°46'09.81"W, 22 - V- 2021, J. L. Ruiz leg. [white label, printed]; MNCN_Ent 429965 [white label, printed] (preserved together in ethanol). – 3 females, labeled: Málaga, Río de la Miel, 36°47'32.23"N 03°46'09.81"W, 22 - V- 2021, J. L. Ruiz leg. [white label, printed]; MNCN_Ent 429966, 429967, 429964 [white label, printed]; ASV 2201, ASV 2202, ASV 21008 [white label, handwritten] (preserved in ethanol). – 1 male, labeled: Málaga, Torre de Maro, 07 - IV- 2021, J. L. Ruiz leg. [white label, printed]; MNCN_Ent 429963 [white label, printed]; ASV 21006 [white label, handwritten] (preserved in ethanol). – 2 males, labeled: Granada, Jete, 36°47'34.93"N 03°39'05.73"W, 09 - III- 2021, Sánchez Vialas, A. leg. [white label, printed]; ASV 21003 - ASV 21004 [white label, handwritten]; MNCN_Ent 429973 –429974 [white label, printed] (males, preserved in ethanol). – 1 male, labeled: Jete, Granada, 36°48'11.60"N 03°39'34.50"W, 16 - III- 2020, François, A. leg. [white label, printed]; ASV 21001 [white label, handwritten]; MNCN_Ent 429976 [white label, printed] (preserved in ethanol). – 1 female, labeled: Jete, Granada, 36°48'11.60"N 03°39'34.50"W, 10 - IV- 2020, François, A. leg. [white label, printed]; MNCN_Ent 429975 [white label, printed]; ASV 21002 [white label, handwritten] (preserved in ethanol). – 1 female, labeled: Jete, Granada, 36°48'11.60"N 03°39'34.50"W, 09 - IV- 2021, François, A. leg. [white label, printed]; MNCN_Ent 429962 [white label, printed] (preserved in ethanol). – 1 female, labeled: Granada, 3 km southern Polopos, 36°45'48.48"N 03°18'07.61"W, 11 - IV- 2010, García-París, M. & Bologna, M. A. leg. [white label, printed]; MNCN_Ent 429971 [white label, printed] (preserved in ethanol). – 1 male, labeled: Granada, 4 km southern Polopos, 36°45'26.01"N 03°17'56.09"W, 11 - IV- 2010, García-París, M. & Bologna, M. A. leg. [white label, printed]; MNCN_Ent 429972 [white label, printed] (preserved in ethanol). – 6 males and 9 females, labeled: Granada, La Garnatilla to Lújar, 36°43'42.05"N 03°26'27"W, 06 - V- 2018, Calatayud, A. & Tena, J. leg. [white label, printed]; MNCN_Ent 429968 (shared among 13 specimens), MNCN_Ent 429969, MNCN_Ent 429970 [white label, printed] (preserved in ethanol). All paratypes labeled: ‘ Paratypus, Berberomeloe nazari Sánchez-Vialas, Calatayud-Mascarell, Ruiz, Recuero, & García-París des. 2025 ’ [white labels, printed]. Etymology. The specific epithet “ nazari ” refers to the Kingdom of Granada under the Nasrid dynasty (Banū Na ṣr), the last Muslim dynasty to rule Al-Andalus (13 th – 15 th century). The name highlights the historical and cultural significance of the region, as the species is distributed across Granada and the eastern limits of Málaga, areas that once formed part of the Nasrid domain. Description of the holotype. Head-to-elytron length (frons anterior margin to elytra posterior extreme): 18.4 mm. Total length (including abdomen): 39 mm. Maximum width (distance between elytra outer extremes): 11.6 mm. Body robust. Voluminous and elongated abdomen. Reduced and convex elytra, hindwings absent. Coloration black all over body and appendages except for head, which features 2 symmetrical red to orange blotches over temples that extends into frons (but not reaching frons midline) after bordering the upper ocular margin area (Fig. 13). Tibial spines and pretarsal claws brownish. Black setae dispersed over body, very scattered on dorsal areas of head, thorax and abdomen. Tegument finely microreticulated, semimatt. ― Head: Voluminous, broadly rounded and slightly wider than pronotum (head maximum width: 5.7 mm). Temples very wide and regularly rounded. Surface sparsely covered by very small to medium-sized punctures, homogeneously distributed, rounded, finely impressed, isolated from each other. A longitudinal midline is finely impressed from apical half of frons to vertex. Frontal side of cephalic capsule slightly curved, with surface above antennal insertions slightly elevated and disc region almost flat, subconvex. Frons and temples almost glabrous, with a very short seta (almost inappreciable) on some punctures, especially on anterior margin of antennal insertion. Occiput with moderately long and decumbent setae. Postocciput laminar, semilunar, conspicuous, dense and deeply punctate, also with moderately long and decumbent setae. Eyes small, kidney-shaped and weakly swollen, with dorsal and ventral lobes of similar size; barely notched at level of antennal insertions; minimum interorbital distance: 3.2 mm. Frontoclypeal suture between frons and clypeus deeply marked, arcuate. Clypeus flat, subtriangular, transverse (2.8 mm wide by 1.2 mm long); punctures small and separated; long setae homogeneously distributed following puncture pattern, directed forward, longer in sides. Labrum-clypeus suture almost straight. Labrum transverse (2.7 mm wide by 1.6 mm long), slightly emarginated in middle; punctures similar to those of clypeus; setae longer in lobes, following puncture pattern, oriented forward and curved towards center. Mandibles robust, longitudinally concave on outer side and notched in its distal region, glabrous in apex, and basally pilose. Maxillary palpi with palpomere I longer than others, subtroncoconical; II short, subcylindrical; III subtrapezoidal and dorso-ventrally flattened; distal palpomere widest with a narrow excavation along distal margin; pilosity moderately long in palpomeres I and II, shorter on distal palpomere. Labial palpi with palpomere I subcylindrical; II troncoconical; III subtrapezoidal, with pilosity as on maxillary palpi. Antennae 11 - segmented, subcompressed, not reaching pronotum base when extended backward. Antennomeres dilated apically, with short black vestiture, mostly decumbent and with a few sparse setae erect, longer and semi-erect on I – II segments; scape (length: 0.9 mm) slightly dilated apically, subcylindrical; pedicel (length: 0.3 mm) very short, subglobose; antennomere III (length: 1.1 mm) subcylindrical, slightly dilated apically, rectangular; IV (length: 1.1 mm) similar to III, subrectangular; V (length: 1 mm) trapezoidal, wider than VI, with a wide and smooth apical tooth on inner edge; VI (length: 0.8 mm) trapezoidal, with a wide and smooth apical tooth on inner edge; VII (length: 0.8 mm) trapezoidal, wider than VI, with an acute apical tooth on inner edge; VIII (length: 0.7 mm) trapezoidal, weakly dentate on apex of inner edge; IX (length: 0.7 mm) trapezoidal, dentate on inner edge; X (length: 0.6 mm) trapezoidal, apical tooth slightly acute; XI (length: 0.9 mm) subconical, notched on apex. ― Thorax: Pronotum subquadrate with subparallel sides, narrower posteriorly (anterior side of pronotum: 5.2 mm; posterior margin of pronotum: 4.2 mm; pronotum length on sagittal plane: 4.2 mm); anterior margin concavely curved, posterior margin slightly convexly arcuate; fore angles acute, hind angles rounded; surface weakly convex at its central area, with a fine impressed longitudinal midline, and with shallow and diffuse lateral depressions. Pronotal base entire and finely bordered. Pronotal surface irregularly punctate; punctures of various sizes, from small to large sizes, circular and relatively deep; disc area only with small punctures; large punctures close but mostly isolated from each other, distributed on anterior and lateral sides and bordering anterior mid-line portion. Punctures do not form a corrugated or reticulated pattern. Dorsal surface of pronotum almost glabrous, with an isolated short seta in each puncture; anterior margin, adjacent to post-occiput, with numerous setae, moderately long. Mesonotum covered mostly by pronotum, showing only its posterior margin, straight and strongly punctate, with longitudinal wrinkles. Metanotum completely covered by elytra. Prosternum narrow, slightly extended posteriorly, pointed at tip. Mesosternum with a triangular prolongation, extended posteriorly, ending in a rounded tip that extends to level of anterior half of mesocoxae; lateral extensions narrow; surface covered by disperse short setae. Metasternum subtrapezoidal, wide, with a prolongation extended posteriorly, ending in an emarginated tip. ― Elytra: Reduced and convex, imbricated basally, longer than pronotum (length: 10.7 mm), divergent posteriorly and reaching posterior half of abdominal tergite II; tegument glabrous, slightly corrugated longitudinally with no marked punctures. ― Legs: Moderately robust, covered by decumbent and relatively long setae. Meso-trochanters and coxae overlap partially metacoxae. Metafemur shorter than metatibia (metafemur length: 6.3 mm; metatibia length: 6.1 mm). Pro- and mesotibiae with 2 similar spurs, slender and straight; metatibial spurs dissimilar and divergent; inner spur spatulated, outer spur similar to those of pro- and mesotibiae. Tarsi long, with tarsomeres subcylindrical, slightly expanded distally and emarginated. Protarsi shorter than meso- and metatarsi. Metatarsomere I large, followed in size by II and IV (length of metatarsomeres: from