Thaumaglossa navratili sp. nov. from French Guiana (Coleoptera ¡ Dermestidae ¡ Megatominae).
Author
HáVA, Jiří
text
Arquivos Entomolóxicos
2017
2017-10-09
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.12767317
1989-6581
12767317
08C791C9-06C0-4DBC-BEB6-A72993D224A7
Thaumaglossa navratili
sp. nov.
(
Figs. 1-6
)
Type material.
Holotype
(
♂
)¡
French Guiana
,
Amazon
Nature Lodge,
30 km
SE Roura on Kaw Rd.,
2-8-VI-2005
,
J.E. Eger & M.
T
. Messenger coll., (
FSCA
). (Map 1).
Description.
Male: Body (TL¡
2.5 mm
, EW¡
1.9 mm
), strongly convex,
ovate, widest at humeri, black and brown on dorsal surface; head, antennae brown, legs light-brown; body covered with black and yellow setation. Antennae with 11
antennomeres with characteristic morphology¡ the last
(11
th
) antennomere narrowly leaf-shaped, covered densely with ligth-brown, erect setation (
Fig. 3
). The remaining segments of antenna narrow and oblate. Antenna occupies the whole cavity of the antennal fossa. Antennal fossa completely open along the whole length of lateral Map 1.-
Type
locality of
Thaumaglossa navratili
margin of the pronotum (hypomeron), occupying all sp. nov.
hypomeron, deeply excavated, floor of fossa microscopically punctate. Pronotum (
Fig. 2
) shine, brown with discal black, large spot, densely punctated, covered by short, yellow setation. Elytra shine, black, coarsely punctated on humera and on first half, other parts densely punctated, covered with black, short setation. Epipleuron black, coarsely punctated. Scutellum triangular, visible. Prosternum intensely punctate on disc, without impunctate median line. Mesosternal disc with large punctation. Abdominal visible ventrites brown with yellow setation (
Fig. 5
). Pygidium (
Fig. 6
) brown, with golden-yellow setation. Male genitalia as in
Fig. 4
.
Female: Unknown.
Differential diagnosis. The new species belongs to the
Thaumaglossa
hilleri
species group. The group is represented in the Neotropical and Nearctic Regions by three species¡
T. americana
(Jayne, 1882),
T
.
cognatoi
Háva, 2015 and
T. anthrenoides
(Pic, 1918). The new species differs from the three known species by the characters mentioned in the following key.