Attagenus (s. str.) admirabilis, HávA, 2015

HávA, Jiří, 2015, A new species from Chile, Attagenus (s. str.) admirabilis sp. nov. (Coleoptera ¡ Dermestidae ¡ Attageninae), with a key to Attagenus (s. str.) species from the Neotropical and Andean Regions., Arquivos Entomolóxicos 14, pp. 173-175 : 174-175

Attagenus (s. str.) admirabilis sp. nov. (Figs. 1-5)

Type material. Holotype (♂)¡ Chile, Melipilla Curacavi, Lingues de Miraflores, Metropolitana de Santiago reg., 8.9.2001, ( JHAC) . Holotype specimeN provided with red lAbel: “ HOLOTYPE Attagenus admirabilis sp. Nov. Jiří HávA det. 2015”.

Description.

Male: Body¡ TL 2.8 mm, EW 1.5 mm; elongated and oval (Fig. 1), slightly convex; dorsally and ventrally unicolorous dark brown, shiny; dorsum covered with dark, long and erected, brown setation; thoracic underside with comparatively long and recumbent, brown setation; visible abdominal ventrites with recumbent, yellow setation, sparser than that on thoracic surface. Head finely punctated. Palpi brown. Frontal median ocellus present. Antennae brown with very long, white setation, composed of 11 antennomeres, antennal club compact with 3 antennomeres (Figs. 3-4). Pronotum finely punctate on the disc, coarsely punctate on lateral margins. Hypomeron very shiny without punctures (Fig. 2). Scutellum small and triangular, shiny, with rounded apex, without setation. Elytra coarsely punctate on humera and with one small humeral bumb, other parts finely punctate. Epipleuron brown, very short, with short browN setAe. ProsterNum without “collAr”, mouthpArts free. ProsterNAl process very short and narrow. Meso- and metasternum finely punctate on disc, coarsely punctate laterally, with yellow, recumbent setation. Abdomen brown, with five visible abdominal ventrites, each ventrite laterally with small depressions, covered by recumbent, yellow setation. Legs brown, covered with comparatively short and thick, yellow setation. Tarsi moderately long. Aedeagus 0.7 mm long, difficult to see (parameres very long and very narrow, with slightly curved tips, median lobe narrow) (Fig. 5).

Female: Unknown.

Attagenus (s. str.) admirabilis sp. nov. ¡ 1.- Habitus,

dorsal aspect. 2.- Pronotum, lateral aspect. 3.- Antenna. 4.-

Head and antennae. 5.- Male genitalia.

Differential diagnosis. The new species belong to nominotypical subgenus of Attagenus and differs from other known Neotropical and Andean species by the characters shown in the following key.