Trogoderma bezarki, Háva, 2024

Háva, Jiří, 2024, Descriptions of ten new Trogoderma Dejean, 1821 species from Australia (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Megatominae), Faunitaxys 12 (29), pp. 1-7 : 4

Trogoderma bezarki sp. nov.

(Fig. 16-18)

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Holotype, ♂, Australia, NT, Curtain Springs , 465 m, 25°13.9´S 132°58.5´E, 12.xi.2000, ( WAMP).

Description

Body. – Measurements(in mm):TL2.8, EW 1.8. Body short, oval (Fig. 16); head black; pronotum black, matte, with sparse yellow and brown setation; elytra black with dark brown area, with sparse yellow and brown setation; antennae brown; legs dark brown.

Head. – Coarsely punctate, sparsely covered with long, light brown setation. Palpomeres dark brown.Eyes large, with yellow microsetae.Ocellus present on front. Antennae flabellate, brown, with yellow setation, composed of 11 antennomeres (Fig. 17).Antennal club with 8 antennomeres.

Pronotum. – Matte, coarsely punctate laterally, black, lateral margins of pronotum smooth.

Scutellum . – Black, triangular, without setation.

Elytra. – Matte,blackwith darkbrownarea, coveredwith white recumbent setation on small area near humerus(Fig. 16a), coarsely punctate, remainder covered by light brown setation. Each elytron with small bump on humera.

Ventralsurface. – Darkbrown,covered byyellowsetation. Mesosternum and metasternum black, covered with short, yellow setation, finely punctate. Abdominal ventrites black, finely punctate, sparsely covered with short, recumbent yellow setation. Pygidium brown with brown setation.

Legs. – Brown covered with recumbent, yellow setation.

Genitalia. – As in Fig. 18.

Female. – Unknown.

Differential diagnosis. – The new species is externally very similar to Trogoderma menziesum sp. nov. but differs from it by the color of elytra, the structure of the antennae and male genitalia, from T. platypus sp. nov. differs by the flabellate antennae and structure of the male genitalia; from T. tolarnenense Blackburn, 1902 it differs by the flabellate antennae.

Etymology. – Patronymic, dedicated to my very good friend and entomologist Larry G. Bezark (California, U.S.A.).

Distribution. – Northern Territory