Trogoderma poorknightsum sp. nov.

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Holotype, ♂, New Zealand ND, Poor Knights Is., Tawhiti Rahi, Shag Bay, 8 Sept. 1890 / J.C.Watt, Pan Trap, (NZAC).

Paratypes

2 ♂, same data but 6-11 Sept. 1980, (NZAC);

1 ♂, same data but 9 Sept. 1980, under stones, (JHAC) .

Description

Body. – Long, narrow, parallel (Fig. 1). Measurements of the body (mm): TL 2.6-2.9, EW 1.3-1.4.

Coloration. – Head dark brown; pronotum dark brown, mattee, with sparse brown and white setation; elytra brown with sparse brown and white setation; antennae brown; legs brown.

Head. – Coarsely punctate, sparsely covered with short, white setation. Palpomeres dark brown. Eyes very large, with yellow microsetae. Ocellus on front present. Antennae brown, with short, yellow setation, composed of 11 antennomeres (Fig. 2).

Pronotum. – Mattee, coarsely punctate, dark brown, lateral margins of pronotum smooth.

Scutellum . – Dark brown, triangular, without setation.

Elytra. – Mattee, brown, with narrow, transverse fasciae of white setation, other parts covered by sparse brown setation; each elytron with large bump on humerus. Epipleuron brown, covered by brown setation.

Ventral surface. – Mesosternum and metasternum covered with white setation, finely punctate. Abdominal ventrites dark brown, finely punctate, sparsely covered with recumbent white setation; ventrites II-IV with small, lateral depression.

Legs. – Brown, covered with recumbent, white setation.

Male genitalia. – As in Fig. 3.

Reviewer:

Female. – Unknown.

Differential diagnosis. – The new species is similar to Trogoderma sonjirii Háva, 2019 but differs from it by the structure of the antennae and the male genitalia, and from other New Zealand species by the elytral and pronotal white patterns and structure of the antennae and male genitalia.

Etymology. – Toponymic, named after Poor Knights Island, New Zealand.