identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
03A71972FFC6E05BB09F2A8CEBC6546F.text	03A71972FFC6E05BB09F2A8CEBC6546F.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Attagenus (Attagenus) matsumotoi Háva 2022	<div><p>Attagenus (Attagenus) matsumotoi sp. nov.</p><p>(Fig. 1, 5, 7, 9)</p><p>ZooBank:http://zoobank.org/ C4633800-788C-4599-98ED-9DFBA14BB7D1</p><p>Holotype, ♂: Ivory Coast, Mt Sangbe NP, 08°08´26.5´´N, 07°21´17.5 ´´W, 10-13.xi. 15, 444 m / On Flower, Aristophanous M., Moretto P., Ruzzier E. lgt, BMNH(E) 2015-177 / NHMUK 013796029, (BMNH).</p><p>Paratypes: 3 ♂: same data as holotype but NHMUK 013796030 - NHMUK 013796032, (2 BMNH, 1 JHAC).</p><p>Description of the holotype.</p><p>Measurements (mm). – TL 2.6 mm, EW 1.3 mm.</p><p>Body (Fig. 1). – Elongated and oval, slightly convex; dorsally and ventrally unicolorous dark brown, shiny; dorsum covered with long and erect, brown and golden setation; thoracic underside with comparatively long and recumbent, yellow setation and black; visible abdominal ventrites with recumbent, yellow setation, sparser than that on thoracic surface.</p><p>Head. – Finely punctate. – Palpi dark brown. Frontal median ocellus present. – Antennae brown (antennomeres VIII-XI dark brown) with long, yellow setation, composed of 11 antennomeres, antennal club compact with 3 antennomeres, terminal antennomere longly triangular (Fig. 5).</p><p>Pronotum. – Finely punctate on the disc, coarsely punctate on lateral margins; covered by yellow setation (Fig 7). – Hypomeron matt, coarsely punctate.</p><p>Scutellum . – Smallandtriangular,shining,withroundedapex,withoutsetation.</p><p>Elytra. – Coarsely punctate on humeri andwith one smallhumeral bump, other parts finely punctate; anterior part with yellow setation other parts covered by intermixed brown and yellow setation.</p><p>Ventral surface. – Epipleuron dark brown, short, coarselypunctate with short yellowsetae.– Prosternum without“collar”,mouthparts free. Prosternalprocess long and narrow. – Meta- mesosternum coarsely punctate discally and laterally, with yellow,recumbentsetation.– Abdomen brown,withfive visible abdominalventrites, each ventrite laterally with small depressions,covered by recumbent,yellow setation.</p><p>Pygidium . – Brown with short yellow setae.</p><p>Legs. – Brown, covered with comparatively shortandthick,yellow setation.</p><p>Tarsimoderatelylong.</p><p>Differential diagnosis. – The new species is visually similar to species Attagenus: balakaensis Háva, 2016, lategriseus Kalík, 1955 and africanus Mroczkowski, 1958, but differs from them by the following characters:</p><p>1. Setation on pronotum type A (Fig. 6).......................................................................................... 2</p><p>— Setation on pronotum type B (Fig. 7).......................................................................................... 3</p><p>2. Antenna (Fig. 3); prosternal process short and broad (Malawi) .............................. A. balakaensis Háva, 2016</p><p>— Antenna (Fig. 2); prosternal process long and broad (Congo, Ethiopia, Nigeria) ......... A. africanus Mroczkowski, 1958</p><p>3. Antenna (Fig. 4); aedeagus (Fig. 8), tip of median lobe (Fig. 8); apical part of each elytron only with black setation (Burundi; Congo; Rwanda; Uganda).............................................................. A. lategriseus Kalík, 1955</p><p>— Antenna (Fig. 5); aedeagus (Fig. 9), tip of median lobe (Fig. 9); apical part of each elytron with intermixed golden and black setation (Ivory Coast)...................................................................... A. matsumotoi sp. nov.</p><p>Etymology. – The epithet is a patronym honouring of my friend and colleague Keita Matsumoto (BMNH).</p><p>Female. – Unknown.</p><p>Variability. – Body: TL 2.6-2.8 mm, EW 1.3-1.6 mm.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A71972FFC6E05BB09F2A8CEBC6546F	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	Háva, Jiří (2022): A new Attagenus species (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Attageninae) from Ivory Coast. Faunitaxys 10 (25): 1-3, DOI: 10.57800/faunitaxys-10(25), URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10622559
