identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
03AC87E90539E32F6188FF3BDAA66520.text	03AC87E90539E32F6188FF3BDAA66520.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Cryptorhopalum pirkli Hava & Hodecek 2023	<div><p>Cryptorhopalum pirkli Háva &amp; Hodeček, sp. nov.</p><p>(Fig. 1-5)</p><p>ZooBank:http://zoobank.org/ 2EB3AFB4-9211-418F-9B20-0955F79C4 CAD</p><p>Holotype, ♂, Dominican Republic, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-71.72498&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=18.271128" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -71.72498/lat 18.271128)">Sierra de Bahoruco</a>, 18.2711269N, 71.7249800W, 6.7.2021, J. Pirkl lgt., (MCSN-VD; GBIFCH00830154) (Fig.2) .</p><p>Paratypes (5 ♂♂, 9 ♀♀): the same locality as holotype, (7 MCSN-VD (GBIFCH00830155 - GBIFCH00830161), 3 MNHNSD, 3 JPPC, 4 JHAC) .</p><p>Description of the holotype</p><p>Body. – Body measurements (in mm): TL 2.4, EW 1.5. Dorsal integument brown and dark brown (Fig. 1), setation decumbent, yellow and brown. Ventral integument brown, setation decumbent, yellow.</p><p>Head. – Shiny brown and finely punctated, covered with yellow decumbent setation. Palpi light brown. Median frontal ocellus present. Eyes large with hardly visible short microseta. Antennae brown, with yellow setation, consisting of 11 antennomeres, antennal club with 3 antennomeres (Fig. 3). Antennal fossa closed.</p><p>Pronotum. – Integument dark brown with yellow and brown setation; brown setation forming two small spots.</p><p>Scutellum. – Brown, small, triangular and without punctation and setation.</p><p>Elytra. – Integument dark brown in anterior 1/3 with brown and yellow setae, yellow setae forming transverse narrow fasciae, apical part brown with brown and yellow setae, much more densely and finely punctated as the pronotum.</p><p>Epipleuron. – Short, dark brown, with some yellow decumbent setation.</p><p>Ventral surface. – Metasternum coarsely punctate with yellow decumbent setation. Abdominal visible ventrites shiny, brown, densely and coarsely punctated, with yellow decumbent setation.</p><p>Legs. – Tarsi light brown, tibiae brown, femora brown, sparsely covered with very short and fine decumbent, intermixed brown and yellow setae.</p><p>Male genitalia. – As in (Fig. 5).</p><p>Female. – Externally similar to male. Antennal club smaller than in male.</p><p>Variability. – Body measurements (in mm): TL 2.4-3.0, EW 1.5-1.9.</p><p>Etymology. – Patronymic, the species is named in honor of its collector, Jiří Pirkl (Czech Republic).</p><p>Differential diagnosis. – The new species is very similar to C. delacruzi Kadej &amp; Háva, 2013, but differs from it in several ways. Firstly, the structure of the antennae is different, with the terminal antennomere of the antennal club being longer and less broad apically in the new species, whereas in C. delacruzi, it is more broad apically. Additionally, the color of the antennae is different. In C. delacruzi, antennomere I is dark brown, while antennomeres II to XI are light brown. However, in the new species, the antennae are uniformly brown in color. Secondly, the structure of the male genitalia is different, with the parameres being narrower in the new species compared to the very broad parameres in C. delacruzi . Finally, each elytron in the new species has 2 transverse bands. The new species differs from other Dominican species by the characters in the following key.</p><p>1. (2) Form of body subovate; body and antennae are brown..................... C. davidsoni Kadej &amp; Háva, 2013</p><p>2. (1) Form of body ovate; color variable.</p><p>3. (8) Elytral pubescence bicolored.</p><p>4. (5) Elytra without transverse bands or spots.................................. C. acevedoi Kadej &amp; Háva, 2013</p><p>5. (4) Elytra with bands or spots.</p><p>6. (7) Each elytron with 1 transverse, narrow band.............................. C. delacruzi Kadej &amp; Háva, 2013</p><p>7. (6) Each elytron with 2 transverse bands (Fig. 1)........................... C. pirkli Háva &amp; Hodeček, sp. nov.</p><p>8. (3) Elytral pubescence unicolored.</p><p>9. (10) Apical part of parameres very broad. Body dark brown, antennae dark brown...... C. rawlinsoni Kadej &amp; Háva, 2013</p><p>10. (9) Apical part of parameres thin (slender).</p><p>11. (12) Body brown; bridge of parameres as broad as two fifths of width of penis at its widest part, ratio of length of penis to length of parameres is 1.0:1.2, penis not extending above apices of parameres....... C. thompsonii Kadej &amp; Háva, 2013</p><p>12. (11) Body black; bridge of parameres as broad as one-fifth of width of penis at its widest part, ratio of length of penis to length of parameres is 1.0:0.85, penis extending above apices of parameres................................................................................................ C. youngi Kadej &amp; Háva, 2013</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AC87E90539E32F6188FF3BDAA66520	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Háva, Jiří;Hodeček, Jiří	Háva, Jiří, Hodeček, Jiří (2023): A new species of Cryptorhopalum (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Megatominae) from the Dominican Republic. Faunitaxys (New York, N. Y.) 11 (48): 1-3, DOI: 10.57800/faunitaxys-11(48), URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15366326
