Trogoderma menziesum, Háva, 2024

Háva, Jiří, 2024, Descriptions of ten new Trogoderma Dejean, 1821 species from Australia (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Megatominae), Faunitaxys 12 (29), pp. 1-7 : 2-4

Trogoderma menziesum sp. nov.

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

Paratypes, 3 ♀, same data as holotype, (1 WAMP, 2 JHAC) .

Description of the holotype

Body. – Measurements (in mm):TL 3.1, EW 2.0. Body short, oval (Fig. 10); head black; pronotum black, matte, with sparse yellow setation; elytra dark brown with sparse yellow and 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 flabellate, dark brown, with yellow setation, composed of 11 antennomeres (Fig. 11). Antennal club with 8 antennomeres.

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

Scutellum . – Black, triangular, without setation.

Elytra. – Matte, dark brown, with narrow fasciae from short, recumbent setation, coarsely punctate, remainder covered by erect light brown setation. Each elytron with small bump on humera.

Ventral surface. – Epipleuron dark brown, covered by yellow setation. Mesosternum and metasternum black, covered with short, yellow setation, finely punctate. Abdominal ventrites black, finely punctate, sparsely covered with recumbent yellow setation (Fig. 13). Pygidium brown with yellow setation.

Legs. – Brown covered with recumbent, yellow setation.

Genitalia. – As in Fig. 12.

Female. – Externally similar to male but differs by the large brown body form (Fig. 14) and the structure of the antennae (Fig. 15). Measurements (in mm): TL 4.1-4.5.

Differential diagnosis. – The new species is externally very similar to Trogoderma platypus sp. nov. but differs from it by the flabellate antennae and the structure of the male genitalia.

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

Distribution. – Western Australia.