Abstract
A new blind weevil belonging to the genus Oromia Alonso-Zarazaga, 1987 is described, being found in the underground of the laurel forest of La Gomera (Canary Islands). Individuals were mainly collected in a colluvial mesocavernous shallow substratum, besides one specimen collected in the deep humic layer of soil. This new species has clear diagnostic differences from the other Oromia species. The number of taxa in this endemic Canarian genus increases to four species, easily identified using the key provided in this article. New data on other Canarian subterranean weevils are also provided.
Highlights
A new blind weevil belonging to the genus Oromia Alonso-Zarazaga, 1987 is described, being found in the underground of the laurel forest of La Gomera (Canary Islands)
Styphloderes is an epigean genus widely distributed in the Mediterranean and Macaronesian regions, while Oromia and Baezia are subterranean Canarian endemisms, these two latter genera being closely related
Baezia is a more diverse genus occurring in lava tubes and the mesocavernous shallow substratum, one species was found under stones in Tenerife (García et al 2007)
Summary
The genus Oromia includes three species to date: O. hephaestos Alonso-Zarazaga, 1987 and O. aguiari Alonso-Zarazaga, 1990 both from Tenerife, and O. thoracica Machado & López, 2015 from Gran Canaria. These weevils are found in different underground environments: O. hephaestos in a few lava tube caves on the northern slopes of Tenerife (Alonso-Zarazaga 1987; Machado and López 2015), while O. aguiari and O. thoracica occur in the MSS (Alonso-Zarazaga 1990; Machado and López 2015), mainly consisting of colluvia covered by soil (Gilgado et al 2011)
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