taxonID	type	description	language	source
03E987C6B31BFFC8AED4FA82FE05F9C8.taxon	description	(Fig. 1 – 3)	en	Holloway Andreas Herrmann, Graham J. (2024): Two new species of Anthrenus Geoffroy (s. str.) (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Megatominae) from Egypt and Eritrea. Insecta Mundi 2024 (71): 1-8, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14662584
03E987C6B31BFFC8AED4FA82FE05F9C8.taxon	materials_examined	Holotype male. Fayoum, Lake Karun, Egypt (29.458, 30.676), 2 - 23. ix. 1945, R. L. Coe leg. Deposited in NHMUK. Paratypes. 32 specimens deposited in NHMUK, same data as holotype.	en	Holloway Andreas Herrmann, Graham J. (2024): Two new species of Anthrenus Geoffroy (s. str.) (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Megatominae) from Egypt and Eritrea. Insecta Mundi 2024 (71): 1-8, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14662584
03E987C6B31BFFC8AED4FA82FE05F9C8.taxon	description	Description, external characteristics. Holotype (Fig. 1 A). BL = 1.7 mm, BW = 1.17 mm. Overall appearance very pale. Head with single dark amber coloured ocellus centrally below level of top of eyes. Eyes with lower inner margins notched. Integument of head, thorax, and base of elytra dark reddish brown, becoming much paler red towards elytral apices. Head and thorax entirely coated in pale scales, mostly white some tinted yellow, especially anterior to the scutellum, with a few pale brown scales on the disc of the thorax. Elytra similarly covered in pale scales with smaller numbers of pale brown scales; pale brown scales forming a sub-basal spot and two loose transelytral bands, one median and the other sub-median. There is colour variation with many individuals displaying more brown scales than the holotype (paratype male, Fig. 1 B). Ventrites (Fig. 1 C) dark brown, covered in white scales. Ventrite 1 with two angled postcoxal lines crossing ventrite either side of midline. Antenna with 11 antennomeres, AL = 128 µm, AW = 81 µm, entirely red (Fig. 2 A). Antennal club formed from last three antennomeres, densely hirsute. Legs red. Femur with outer surface densely coated in white scales. Description, internal characteristics. Aedeagus (Fig. 2 B) long and narrow. Parameres (PL = 322 µm) rod-shaped, nearly equal width for their entire lengths. Parameres diverge from the base, curve round towards posterior, before progressing to the posterior tips as two parallel rods. Rounded tips of parameres flat (like a rod of putty pinched flat at the tip) and curved in towards each other but do not meet. Flattened tips paler than the rest of the aedeagus which is a uniform pale yellowish brown. Parameres are almost completely glabrous apart from a few very small setae on the flattened tips. Parameres with inner margins parallel to the margins of the median lobe. Median lobe (ML = 361 µm) broad with margins diverging slightly from base to maximum width about midway, before smoothly converging to a blunt, rounded tip. Posterior tip of median lobe not extending as far as tips of parameres. Median lobe with two long, curved stirrups at anterior end. Sternite IX, (Fig. 2 C) SL = 342 µm. Two long, curved, narrow horns at anterior end. Bases of horns converge to form a neck at the base of short, yellow-ochre posterior lobe that terminates in a white, rounded tip. Tip of posterior lobe with ~ 25 – 30 short recumbent setae emerging from margin; few setae (<10) emerging from disc. Female. Bursa copulatrix devoid of sclerites. The only features of note from the female terminalia are sternite VIII (Fig. 3 A) and tergite VIII (Fig. 3 B). Morphometrics. Mean BL = 1.84 ± 0.14 (standard deviation) mm, mean BW / BL = 0.68 ± 0.01, n = 30 in both cases. The data indicate that 95 % BLs of A. kushangaza would lie within 1.54 – 2.13 mm. The smallest individual found in the sample studied was 1.60 mm, the largest 2.20 mm. 95 % BW / BL expected to lie between 0.65 – 0.71 (actual range 0.65 – 0.71).	en	Holloway Andreas Herrmann, Graham J. (2024): Two new species of Anthrenus Geoffroy (s. str.) (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Megatominae) from Egypt and Eritrea. Insecta Mundi 2024 (71): 1-8, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14662584
03E987C6B31BFFC8AED4FA82FE05F9C8.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Anthrenus kushangaza was collected in northeastern Egypt (Fig. 5).	en	Holloway Andreas Herrmann, Graham J. (2024): Two new species of Anthrenus Geoffroy (s. str.) (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Megatominae) from Egypt and Eritrea. Insecta Mundi 2024 (71): 1-8, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14662584
03E987C6B31BFFC8AED4FA82FE05F9C8.taxon	etymology	Etymology. Anthrenus kushangaza is named after the Swahili word “ kushangaza ”, meaning surprising or marvellous, reflecting our surprise on inspecting the specimens labelled A. aegyptiacus in NHMUK and discovering an undescribed species.	en	Holloway Andreas Herrmann, Graham J. (2024): Two new species of Anthrenus Geoffroy (s. str.) (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Megatominae) from Egypt and Eritrea. Insecta Mundi 2024 (71): 1-8, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14662584
03E987C6B31CFFCBAED4F938FE63FA22.taxon	description	(Fig. 4)	en	Holloway Andreas Herrmann, Graham J. (2024): Two new species of Anthrenus Geoffroy (s. str.) (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Megatominae) from Egypt and Eritrea. Insecta Mundi 2024 (71): 1-8, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14662584
03E987C6B31CFFCBAED4F938FE63FA22.taxon	materials_examined	Holotype male. Assab, Eritrea (13.022, 42.738), 1907, K. Kittenberger leg. Deposited in AHEC. Paratypes. Two males, same data as holotype, deposited in AHEC.	en	Holloway Andreas Herrmann, Graham J. (2024): Two new species of Anthrenus Geoffroy (s. str.) (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Megatominae) from Egypt and Eritrea. Insecta Mundi 2024 (71): 1-8, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14662584
03E987C6B31CFFCBAED4F938FE63FA22.taxon	description	Description, external characteristics. Holotype (Fig. 4 A.), BL = 2.0 mm, BW = 1.43 mm. Head with single dark brown or black ocellus centrally, below level of top of eyes. Eyes notched at lower inner margins. Integument of head, thorax, and base of elytra dark brown, becoming red towards elytral apices. Head and thorax entirely coated in pale orange scales with white scales concentrated at posterior pronotal angles. Elytra similarly covered in orange and white scales; white scales concentrated in pre- and postmedian fasciae, with basal and sub-apical spots. Ventrites (Fig. 4 B) with dark brown integument, covered in white scales. Ventrites 2 to 5 with scales tinted brown, growing darker towards the margins. Ventrite 1 with two vertical, almost parallel (slightly diverging) postcoxal lines crossing ventrite 1 either side of midline and turning inwards slightly at the tip. Antenna with 11 antennomeres (Fig. 4 C), AL = 146 µm, AW = 97 µm, entirely red. Antennal club formed by last three antennomeres. Legs red; outer surface of femur densely coated in white scales. Description, internal characteristics. Aedeagus (Fig. 4 D) broad and short (relative to A. kushangaza). Parameres (PL = 309 µm) rod-shaped, broader in the posterior half than the anterior half. Parameres diverge from the base, curve round towards posterior, before progressing to the posterior tips as two slightly diverging rods (outer margins are concave). Parameres with broad, flat rounded tips that point in towards each other, but do not meet at the midline. Aedeagus uniform pale brown, tips of parameres paler. Parameres with inner margins that parallel margins of median lobe and wrap around tip of median lobe. Median lobe (ML = 312 µm) very broad (broader than A. kushangaza); apex blunt, rounded. Posterior tip of median lobe not extending as far as tips of parameres. Median lobe with two long, curved stirrups (one broken) at anterior end. Morphometrics. Holotype BW / BL = 0.72, indicating that A. kittenbergeri has a broader profile than A. kushangaza.	en	Holloway Andreas Herrmann, Graham J. (2024): Two new species of Anthrenus Geoffroy (s. str.) (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Megatominae) from Egypt and Eritrea. Insecta Mundi 2024 (71): 1-8, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14662584
03E987C6B31CFFCBAED4F938FE63FA22.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Anthrenus kittenbergeri was collected in southern Eritrea (Fig. 5).	en	Holloway Andreas Herrmann, Graham J. (2024): Two new species of Anthrenus Geoffroy (s. str.) (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Megatominae) from Egypt and Eritrea. Insecta Mundi 2024 (71): 1-8, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14662584
03E987C6B31CFFCBAED4F938FE63FA22.taxon	etymology	Etymology. Anthrenus kittenbergeri is named after the collector of the holotype, Kálmán Kittenberger.	en	Holloway Andreas Herrmann, Graham J. (2024): Two new species of Anthrenus Geoffroy (s. str.) (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Megatominae) from Egypt and Eritrea. Insecta Mundi 2024 (71): 1-8, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14662584
03E987C6B31CFFCBAED4F938FE63FA22.taxon	diagnosis	Differential diagnosis Both species described here came from north-eastern Africa. Only one other species comes from this region belonging to the subgenus Anthrenus and has rod-shaped parameres as described here: A. crustaceus Reitter, 1881. Háva (2014) produced clear illustrations of A. crustaceus antenna (Fig. 6 A) and aedeagus (Fig. 6 B) to differentiate between A. crustaceus and another species with rod-shaped parameres, A. kubistai Háva and Votruba, 2005 (no image of the habitus was provided). The illustrations produced by Háva (2014) differ from A. kushangaza and A. kittenbergeri in several ways. Anthrenus crustaceus antenna (Fig. 6 A) has a large, rounded terminal antennomere producing an obvious step between the 10 th and the 11 th antennomere, and a small 1 st antennomere, much smaller than the 2 nd antennomere. The antennae shown in Figures 2 A and 4 C do not have rounded 11 th antennomeres that produce a step between the 11 th and the 10 th antennomere, and the 1 st antennomere is the same size as the 2 nd antennomere. The aedeagus of A. crustaceus (Fig. 6 B) is long, narrow, with parallel sides, immediately differing from the aedeagus of A. kittenbergeri (Fig. 4 D), which is broader and shorter with slightly concave outer margins. The median lobe of A. crustaceus (Fig. 6 B) does not extend as far to the paramere tips as that of A. kushangaza (Fig. 2 B). The flattened paramere tips of A. crustaceus (Fig. 6 B) are larger and curve in to the extent that they overlap, differing from A. kushangaza paramere tips which are smaller and do not overlap (Fig. 2 B). Another potential confusing species is A. rauterbergi Reitter, 1908. Only a single paratype female was available for comparison (AHEC, Fig. 7). Anthrenus rauterbergi has a broader, shallower pronotum (length / width = 0.427) than A. kushangaza and A. kittenbergeri (length / width = 0.475, and 0.512, respectively). The postcoxal lines in A. rauterbergi diverge all the way to the tips (Fig. 7 B) but are almost parallel in A. kittenbergeri and curve inwards at their tips (Fig. 5 B). The antennal club of A. rauterbergi is broader than A. kushangaza (AW / AL = 0.77, and 0.63, respectively).	en	Holloway Andreas Herrmann, Graham J. (2024): Two new species of Anthrenus Geoffroy (s. str.) (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Megatominae) from Egypt and Eritrea. Insecta Mundi 2024 (71): 1-8, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14662584
