Trogoderma platypus, Háva, 2024

Háva, Jiří, 2024, Descriptions of ten new Trogoderma Dejean, 1821 species from Australia (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Megatominae), Faunitaxys 12 (29), pp. 1-7 : 2

Trogoderma platypus sp. nov.

(Fig. 7-9)

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Holotype, ♂, Western Australia, Menzies [720 km EN of Perth], 23.x.2001, ( WAMP).

Description

Body. – Measurements (in mm): TL 2.4, EW 1.5. Body short, oval (Fig. 7);head black;pronotum black, matte, withsparse light brown setation;elytra black with sparse light brown setation; antennae dark 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 filiform, antennomeres I, V-XI dark brown, II-IV brown, with brown setation, composed of 11 antennomeres (Fig. 8). Antennal club with 8 antennomeres.

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

Scutellum . – Black, triangular, without setation.

Elytra. – Matte, black, without fascia or spots, coarsely punctate, covered by sparse light brown setation. Each elytron with small bump on humera.

Ventral surface. – Epipleuron black, covered by light yellow setation. Mesosternum and metasternum black, covered with light yellow setation, finely punctate. Abdominal ventrites black, finely punctate, sparsely covered with recumbent light yellow setation. Pygidium brown with brown setation.

Legs. – Brown covered with recumbent, yellow setation.

Genitalia. – As in Fig. 9.

Female. – Unknown.

Differential diagnosis. – The new species is externally similar to Trogoderma crinitum (Ślipiński & Zhou, 2023) , but differs from it by the unicolorous elytra and the structure of the antennae and male genitalia.

Etymology. – Named according to the platypus (sometimes referred to as the duck-billed platypus) Ornithorhynchus anatinus (Shaw, 1799) .

Distribution. – Western Australia.