Anthrenus (Nathrenus) sanandajensis, Háva, 2024

Háva, Jiří, 2024, A new Anthrenus Geoffroy, 1762 Dermestidae: Megatominae: Anthrenini) species from Iran (Coleoptera:, Faunitaxys (1982) 12 (25), pp. 1-3 : 1-2

Anthrenus (Nathrenus) sanandajensis sp. nov.

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Holotype, ♂, Iran, Kordestan Prov., ca. 33 km S of Sanandaj , 35°01´N, 46°57´E, 1612 m, 6.vii.2004, S. Kadlec lgt., ( NMPC) . Paratypes, 5 ♂, same data as holotype (3 NMPC, 2 JHAC) .

Description

Body. – Male body measurements (mm): TL 2.7, EW 2.1. The entire body deep dark brown except the light brown apical part of elytra, brown labrum and dark brown legs, oval, all surfaces covered with milky scales; the scales touch each other but don’t overlap.

Head. –Eyes large with barely visible microsetae, with entire median margin. – Ocellus distinctly present on frons. – Antennae consist of 11 antennomeres, antennomeres I-VII brown, VIII-XI dark brown, antennal club with 3 antennomeres, compact ( Fig. 2).

Pronotum. – Broadest at its hind edges, narrowed towards the front, middle of the hind margin projected towards the scutellum, lateral margins partly visible from above.

Scutellum. – Extremelly small, triangular, shiny without setae.

Elytra. – Quite densely punctate, punctation barely visible beyond the scales.

Ventral surface. – Sternites I-V with similar punctation as on the elytra, covered in the same way with milky scales ( Fig. 3).

Legs. – Dark brown with a few short brown setae and without a row of thorns at the outer edge, the tarsi distinctly shorter than the tibiae.

Aedeagus. – As in Fig. 4.

Sexual dimorphism . – Female unknown.

Variations. – Body size: TL 2.5-2.7 mm.

Differential diagnosis. – Because of the morphological characters the new species belongs to the subgenus Nathrenus Casey, 1900 , and according to the unicolorous milky scales on dorsal and ventral surfaces it look extremely similar to A. (N.) molitor Aubé, 1850 and

Reviewer:

A. (N.) paramolitor Herrmann & Háva, 2021 , but differs from them by the structure of the antenna and male genitalia, from the similar species A. (N.) bulirschi Háva, 2000 and A. (N.) obenbergeri Háva & Herrmann, 2021 , it differs by the structure of the male genitalia.

Etymology. – Toponymic, named according to the Iranian city Sanandaj.

Distribution. – So far known only from Iran: Kordestan Province.