Trogoderma walpolenum, Háva, 2024

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

Trogoderma walpolenum sp. nov.

( Fig. 33-35)

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Holotype, ♂, Western Australia, Walpole Nat. Pk., 6 km NE Coalbine Beach , 13.xii.1976, ( WAMP).

Description of the holotype

Body. – Measurements (in mm):TL 2.4, EW 1.5. Body short, oval ( Fig. 33); head dark brown; pronotum dark brown, shining, with sparse yellow setation laterally and brown setation discally; elytra brown with sparse yellow setation near pronotum and scutellum other parts with brown setation; antennae brown; legs dark brown.

Head. – Coarsely punctate, sparsely covered with long, yellow setation. Palpomeres dark brown. Eyes large, with yellow microsetae. Ocellus present on front. Antennae filiform, brown, with yellow setation, composed of 11 antennomeres ( Fig. 34). Antennal club dark brown with 5 antennomeres.

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

Scutellum . – Dark brown, triangular, without setation.

Elytra. – Shiny, brown, coarsely punctate, with sparse yellow setation near pronotum and scutellum, remainder with brown setation ( Fig. 33a). Each elytron with small bump on humera.

Ventralsurface. – Epipleuron dark brown, covered by yellow setation. Mesosternum and metasternum dark brown, covered with short, yellow setation, finely punctate. Abdominal ventrites dark brown, finely punctate, sparsely covered with short, recumbent yellow setation. Pygidium brown with brown setation

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Legs. – Brown covered with recumbent, yellow setation.

Genitalia. – As in Figs. 35 a-b.

Female. – Unknown.

Differential diagnosis. – The new species is similar to Trogoderma varipes Blackburn, 1892 , but differs from it by the colour of the elytral setation near the pronotum, and the structure of the antennae and male genitalia.

Etymology. – Toponymic, named according to the type locality, Walpole Nat. Pk.

Distribution. – Western Australia.