Orphinus (Orphinus) vattiari, HávA, 2016

HávA, Jiří, 2016, Contribution to the knowledge of genus Orphinus Motschulsky, 1858 from India (Coleoptera ¡ Dermestidae ¡ Megatominae)., Arquivos Entomolóxicos 15, pp. 377-382 : 380

Orphinus (Orphinus) vattiari sp. nov. ( Figs. 9 -11)

Type material. Holotype (♂)¡ S-India, Kerala, Cardamom hills, 10 km SW of Munnar, Vattiar , 1000 m, 5.- 17.XII.1993, 77°01’E 10°02’N, D. BouKAl & Z. KejvAl leg., ( JHAC).

Description.

Male. Body parallel and oval, TL 2.12 mm, EW 1.27 mm. Head and pronotum black, shiny, elytra black with brown apical third ( Fig. 9 ), dark brown on venter. Head coarsely punctate with long, erect, yellow setation. Palpi brown; setation on mentum denser. Eyes small, with yellow microsetae. Ocellus on front present. Antennae brown with yellow setae, with 11 antennomeres, antennal club with 2 antennomeres, terminal antennal segment circular (Fig. 10). Pronotum black, disc finely punctate, densely foveolate posteriorly, with long, erect, yellow setae. Scutellum black, triangular, without setation. Elytra finely punctate; humerus with one small bump; elytral surface with long, erect yellow setation; cuticle black with brown apical third. Epipleuron black, anteriorly broad, finely punctate, with short, yellow setation. Legs dark brown with yellow setation. Mesosternum coarsely punctate laterally, otherwise finely punctate, covered by long, recumbent, yellow setation. Abdominal visible ventrites dark brown, with long, recumbent, yellow setation. Male genitalia (Figs. 11).

Female. Unknown.

Figures

Figs. 9.- Male