Trogoderma brisbaneum, 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 brisbaneum sp. nov.

( Fig. 19-21)

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Holotype, ♀, Australia, NSW, Brisbane env., 8-12.viii.2005, ( WAMP) . Paratypes, 1 ♀, same data as holotype, ( JHAC) .

Description

Body. – Measurements(in mm):TL2.9, EW 1.7. Body short, oval ( Fig. 19); head black; pronotum black, shiny, with intermixed, long yellow and brown setation; elytra black with reddish, apical spot, covered with sparse brown and yellow setation; antennae dark brown; legs brown.

Head. – Coarsely punctate, sparsely covered with intermixed yellow and brown setation. Palpomeres brown. Eyes large, with yellow microsetae. Ocellus present on front. Antennae filiform, dark brown, with short, yellow setation, composed of 11 antennomeres ( Fig. 21). Antennal club with 4 antennomeres.

Pronotum. – Shiny, covered by long brown and yellow setation, yellow setation forming small spots, laterally coarsely punctate, black, lateral margins of pronotum smooth.

Scutellum . – Black, shiny, triangular, without setation.

Elytra. – Shiny, black, with isolated apical, reddish spots, covered by sparse brown setation with multiple narrow transverse bands of yellow setae.

Ventralsurface. – Epipleuron black, covered by short, yellow setation. Mesosternum and metasternum covered with yellow setation, finely punctate. Abdominal ventrites black, finely punctate, sparsely covered with recumbent yellow setation. Ventrite V is without coarse continuous crenulation. Pygidium black with brown setation.

Legs. – Dark brown covered with recumbent, yellow setation.

Male. – Unknown.

Variability. – The paratype female is very similar to the holotype.

Differential diagnosis. – The new species is similar to Trogoderma koy (Ślipiński & Zhou, 2023) , based onthe multiple transverse bands of light setae on the elytra but differs from it by the very shiny body, the isolated, apicalreddish spot on the elytra, the structure of the antennae and the absence of coarse continuous crenulation on abdominal ventrite 5.

Etymology. – Toponymic, named according to the type locality, Brisbane city.

Distribution. – New South Wales.