Trixagus dermestoides ( Linnaeus, 1767 )

Seung, Jinbae, Han, Taeman, Lee, Seunghyun, Lee, Minhyeuk & Lee, Seunghwan, 2024, Taxonomic review of the family Throscidae Laporte, 1840 (Coleoptera: Elateroidea) in Korea, the description of a new species with new generic and species records, Zootaxa 5432 (2), pp. 267-278 : 276

Trixagus dermestoides ( Linnaeus, 1767)

Elater dermestoides Linnaeus, 1767: 656 .

Elater clavicornis Geoffroy, 1785: 39 .

Dermestes adstrictor Herbst, 1792: 140 .

Dermestes vastator Kugelann, 1792: 479 .

Trixagus planifrons Rey, 1891: 27 .

Trixagus sulcifrons Rey, 1891: 27

Diagnosis. Body oblong-oval, fairly convex; widest anteriorly; surface coloured red-brown, densely covered with gray or yellow recumbent vestitures. Head inserted up to compound eyes into prothorax, sparsely punctate; frons bicarinated; compound eyes emarginated by triangular impressions, almost reaching middle of eye; antennae 11- segmented, with 3-segmented club. Pronotum trapezoidal, fairly sinuate at base, feebly arcuate laterally. Elytra gradually narrowed posterad, with rounded apex; elytral striae sparsely and distinctly punctate, larger on interstriae; surface covered with microscopic punctures between large punctures. Prosternum broad, slightly lobed at anterior margin; prosternal process broad and flat, strongly deflexed apically. Metasternum with very short tarsal grooves, feebly diverging from femoral sulcus. Aedeagus trilobed; phallobase emarginate basally, longer than parameres; parameres stout at base, with a row of short setae on dorsal surface and long setae along lateral margin (Adapted from Burakowski 1975).

Material examined. Specimens unavailable in this study.

Distribution. Europe ( Austria, Azores, Bulgaria, Belarus, Croatia, Czech, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Great Britain, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine), Kazakhstan, Korea, Turkey, Russia

Remarks. This species was included in the Korean fauna by Lee et al. (2015), but the study lacks information of examined specimens or their repositories. Detailed information for this species is provided in Burakowski (1975).