Description of a new genus and species, Dundadela maculata, from Madagascar (Coleoptera: Ptinidae)
Author
Zahradník, Petr
0000-0002-4508-8179
Forestry and Game Management Research institute, Strnady 136, CZ- 252 02 Jíloviště, Czech Republic. zahradnik @ vulhm. cz https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4508 - 8179
Author
Trýzna, Miloš
Mendel University in Brno, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Department of Forest Ecology, Zemědělská 3, CZ- 613 00 Brno, & Municipal Museum of Ústí nad Labem, Natural History Department, Masarykova 1000 / 3, CZ- 400 01 Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic.
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Zootaxa
2023
2023-02-20
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3
276
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5244.3.5
journal article
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Dundadela
Zahradník & Trýzna
gen. nov.
(
Figs 1–16
)
Type
species
.
Dundadela maculata
sp. nov.
, by original designation.
Placement.
Subfamily
Anobiinae
, tribe
incertae sedis
.
Name derivation.
Dundadela
, gender feminine, dedicated to our colleague and friend Mr. Radek Dunda (*30 June, 1969–†30 March, 2020), specialist in the family
Attelabidae
(
Coleoptera
: Curculionoidea) (
Figs 20–21
).
Description
.
Male.
Body long oval, mostly parallel (
Fig. 1
). Head (
Figs 2–3, 7
,
10
) forward oriented (probably semi-prognathous in natural position), slightly transverse convex, eyes large, globular, glabrous.Antennae (
Figs 1, 8
,
12, 14
) with eleven antennomeres. Flagellum filiform, antennomere VIII strongly transverse, last three antennomeres strongly enlarged, IX–X strongly pectinate, XI simple and robust. Pronotum (
Fig. 4
) transverse, slightly concave dorsally, without central bump; pronotal lateral margin only partly visible, on posterior part invisible (in dorsal view). Elytra (
Fig. 1
) parallel, without distinct humeral angles, with four very fine and indistinct longitudinal carinae (not visible on
Fig. 1
), equally distributed on elytra. Legs (
Fig. 1
) short and slim. Anterior coxae (
Fig. 10
) very close, touching, mesocoxae (
Fig. 9
) very similar. Metacoxae (
Fig. 9
) slightly separated. Metathoracic ventrite (
Fig. 9
) with short longitudinal depression, posteriorly sharpened. All coxae conical. Claws (
Fig. 6
) widely spaced, not bifurcate at apex. Mesosternum (
Fig. 9
) posteriorly without hook, metasternum without tarsal grooves. Abdomen (
Fig. 11
) with five ventrites, I with short blunt wide promontory in middle. Aedeagus symmetrical (
Figs 13, 16
).
Differential diagnosis
.
Dundadela
gen. nov.
differs from other genera of subfamily
Anobiinae
by antennal structure—no other genus of this subfamily has antennomeres IX and X pectinate. Only genus
Megorama
Fall, 1905
(subfamily
Xyletininae
) has similar structure of antennae, but it has a distinctly hypognathous (orthognathous) head.
Megorama
(unlike
Dundadela
) lacks elytral carinae.
Distribution
. So far known only from
Madagascar
.