Trogoderma zhantievi Háva et Matsumoto, 2021

Háva, J. & Matsumoto, K., 2021, New species and records of Dermestidae (Coleoptera: Bostrichoidea) from Madagascar, Far Eastern Entomologist 433, pp. 1-12 : 4-6

Trogoderma zhantievi Háva et Matsumoto , sp. n.

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Figs 7‒12

TYPE MATERIAL. Holotype – male, deposited at BMNH: “ MADAGASCAR

2011 AMBOHITANTELY Sp. Res 19.iv.;~ 1530 m, camp surr,; local collector leg.

// BMNH {E} 2015-39 // NHMUK 014381545”. Additional label on red paper added

“ Trogoderma zhantievi sp. nov. Háva & Matsumoto det. 2020 HOLOTYPE ♂ ” .

DESCRIPTION. Male. Body: Body: Oval, dorsum convex. BL: 1.8 mm, EL:

1.3 mm, EW: 1.2 mm, PL: 0.5 mm, PW: 1.0 mm. Colour: Dorsal and ventral sides black; three bands of brown marking on the elytra; tibia brown, tarsal claws light brown; 2nd to 4th AS light brown, 1st and 5th to 11th AS dark brown.

Body ( Fig. 7 ). Head densely punctate with short dark brown setation. Palpi entirely brown; setation on mentum denser. Eye very large, with brown microsetae.

Ocellus on front present ( Fig. 10 ). Antennae with brown setae, with eleven antennomeres, 1st and 2nd AS round and wider than 3rd to 7th AS, width gradually increased from 3rd to 10th AS, length increases from 8th to 11th AS, 11th AS longest and semicircular ( Fig. 11 ). Antennal fossa circular. Pronotum coarsely punctate alike head with mixture of short black, light brown and white setation. Scutellum triangular, anterior end convex, without setation. Elytra coarsely punctate; surface with mixture of short black and light brown setation, and white setae occurs on the brown elytral band and near the apical end ( Fig. 7 ). Elytral epipleuron entirely black with yellow setation. Legs with light brown setation. Mesosternum finely punctate, covered with short light brown, recumbent setation ( Fig. 8 ). Abdominal visible ventrites finely punctate, with short, recumbent, mixture of light yellow and brown setation ( Fig. 9 ).

Genitalia ( Fig. 12 ). Parameres: longer than median lobe, width relatively constant from base to anterior 1/3, increasing in width between anterior 1/3 to apical end,

apex slightly flattened. Median lobe: widest at base, constant width at middle towards apex, apical end slightly rounded. Phallobase: nearly symmetrical, trapezoid.

9 ‒ abdomen; 10 ‒ head frontal; 11 ‒ left antennae; 12 ‒ genitalia ventral.

Female. Unknown.

DISTRIBUTION. Madagascar.

DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS. The new species similar to T. sahondrae Háva et Baňař, 2017 ( Figs 22–24 ) but differs by its characteristic elytral colour; from other species known from Madagascar it differs by the characters given in the key below.

ETYMOLOGY. The epithet is a patronym honouring the Dermestidae specialist

Rustem D. Zhantiev ( Russia).

tus; 15 ‒ abdomen; 16 ‒ head frontal; 17 ‒ left antennae.

Figures

Figs. 7‒12. Trogoderma zhantievi sp. n., holotype. 7 ‒ dorsal habitus; 8 ‒ ventral habitus;

Figs. 22‒24. Trogoderma sahondrae Háva et Baňař, 2017. 22 ‒ elytron; 23 ‒ antennae;