Figs 6, 9, 16 b
Type material (revised). HOLOTYPE: Spain: ♂, León, Murias de Paredes, 09.ix.1987, leg. Marcos-García (CEUA). PARATYPES: Spain: ♀, Alicante, Caveta del Buitre, Agres (Natural Park Mariola), 1200 m, 27.viii/ 10.ix.2002, leg. X. Mengual (CEUA); ♀, Alicante, Font Roja, Alcoi (Natural Park, 21.ix.1993, leg. P.M. Isidro (FSUNS); 4 ♀, Alicante, Font Roja, Alcoi (Natural Park), Menetjador, 22.ix.2004, leg. A. Ricarte (CEUA); ♀ Alicante, Font Roja, Alcoi (Natural Park), Menetjador, 22.ix.2004, leg. A. Ricarte (MNMS); ♀, León, Cofiñal, 09.ix.1987, leg. Marcos-García (CEUA); ♀, León, Pandetrave, Santa María de Baldeón, 13.ix.1987, leg. Marcos- García (CEUA); ♀ León, Predosa del Rey, 1100 m, 13.ix.1987, leg. Marcos-García (CEUA); ♂, Valencia, Chelva, 28.viii.1993, leg. Pérez-Bañón (CEUA); ♂, Valencia, Chelva, 28.viii.1993 (MNMS); ♂, Valencia, Utiel, 06.ix.1994, leg. Pérez-Bañón (FSUNS) (Marcos-García et al. 2007).
New records. Portugal: ♂ + ♀, Serra da Estrela, Nave de Santo António, 1600m, 06.ix.2009, leg. J.M. Almeida (AvE col); ♂, Montalegre, Pitões das Junias, 1100m, 10.ix.2012, leg. R. Andrade (AvE col); ♀, Marvão, Quinta da Abegoa, 25.viii.2014, leg. J.M. Almeida (AvE col) (van Eck 2016).
Diagnosis. Species with completely pale tibiae and tarsi except slightly brownish apical two tarsomeres in male, and three tarsomeres in female (Fig. 9 b); mesoscutum covered with pale pile; shiny tergites, with goldenbronze reflection, covered with light yellowish hairs; tergites II and III in male with stripes of white microtrichia (Fig. 9 a), contrary to related M. flavicornis (Fig. 7 a); eye pile in male black in upper 1/2 (in M. flavicornis black in upper 1/3); pilosity on tergite V in female predominantly black (in M. flavicornis pale); distribution restricted to the Iberian Peninsula.
Range and preferred habitat. Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) (Fig. 6); open ground; unimproved, montane grassland, including open, grassy areas in pine forest or Mediterranean scrub, hedgehog heath, Quercus rotundifolia woodland (Speight 2016).