Trogoderma sarcophilum, Háva, 2024

Háva, Jiří, 2024, Descriptions of ten new Trogoderma Dejean, 1821 species from Australia (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Megatominae), Faunitaxys 12 (29), pp. 1-7 : 6

Trogoderma sarcophilum sp. nov.

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Holotype, ♀, [Tasmania] „Hobart.“ / Trogoderma ?riguum Id by J. Armstrong “, ( JHAC).

Description of the holotype

Body. – Measurements(in mm):TL2.7, EW 1.5. Body short, oval ( Fig. 19); head brown; pronotum brown, shiny, with white and brown setation; elytra brown with sparse brown, yellow and white setation; antennae light brown; legs brown.

Head. – Coarsely punctate, sparsely covered with white setation. Palpomeres brown. Eyes large, with white microsetae. Ocellus present on front. Antennae filiform, light brown, with short, yellow setation, composed of 11 antennomeres (Fig. 28). Antennal club with 3 antennomeres.

Pronotum. – Shiny, covered by long brown and white setation, brown setation forming large spot discally, laterally coarsely punctate, brown, lateral margins of pronotum smooth.

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

Elytra. – Shiny, brown, covered by sparse brown setation with multiple transverse bands of white setae; apical part of elytra with intermixed white and yellow setae.

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

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

Male. – Unknown.

Differential diagnosis. – The new species is externally very similar to Trogoderma koy (Ślipiński & Zhou, 2023), but differs from it by the structure of the antennae (antennal club with 3 antennomeres, in koy 7 antennomered) and the multiple transverse elytral bands of light setae.