Trogoderma vombatum, Háva, 2024

Háva, Jiří, 2024, Descriptions of ten new Trogoderma Dejean, 1821 species from Australia (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Megatominae), Faunitaxys 12 (29), pp. 1-7 : 1-2

Trogoderma vombatum sp. nov.

( Fig. 1-3)

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Holotype, ♂, Western Australia, Coolgardie [ 560 km E of Perth], 18.x.2001, ( WAMP).

Description

Body. – Measurements (in mm): TL 2.0, EW 1.2. Body short, oval ( Fig. 1); head black; pronotum black, mattee, with sparse light yellow setation; elytra light brown with sparse light yellow setation; antennae dark brown; legs brown.

Head. – Coarsely punctate, sparsely covered with short, light yellow setation. Palpomeres dark brown. Eyes large, with yellow microsetae. Ocellus present on front. Antennae filiform, dark brown, with short, yellow setation, composed of 11 antennomeres ( Fig. 2). Antennal club with 6 antennomeres.

Pronotum. – Mattee, coarsely punctate, black, lateral margins of pronotum smooth.

Scutellum . – Black, triangular, without setation.

Elytra. – Matte, light brown, without fascia or spots, coarsely punctate, covered by sparse light yellow setation. Each elytron with small bump on humera.

Ventral surface. – Light brown, covered by light yellow setation. Mesosternum and metasternum black, covered with light yellow setation, finely punctate. Abdominal ventrites black, finely punctate, sparsely covered with recumbent light yellow setation. Pygidium brown with brown setation.

Legs. – Brown covered with recumbent, yellow setation.

Genitalia. – As in Fig. 3.

Female. – Unknown.

Reviewer:

Differential diagnosis. – The new species is externally very similar to Trogoderma hedlandum (Ślipiński & Zhou, 2023) , but differs from it by the absence of spines on the protibia, the structure of the antennae (6 antennomered club, in hedlandum antennal club with 8 antennomeres) and male genitalia.

Etymology. – Named according to the common wombat, also known as the coarse-haired wombat or bare-nosed wombat, Vombatus ursinus (Shaw, 1800) .

Distribution. – Western Australia.