Cryptorhopalum hodeceki Háva, 2025

Háva, Jiří & Hodeček, Jiří, 2025, Two additional new species of Cryptorhopalum (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Megatominae) from the Dominican Republic, Faunitaxys 13 (6), pp. 1-5 : 3

Cryptorhopalum hodeceki Háva , sp. nov.

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Holotype, ♂, Dominican Republic, Sierra de Bahoruco, [ N.P. Bahoruco ], Bauxite mine , 18.1376728M, 71.5440594W, 14.6.2023, J. Pirkl & J.Hodecek lgt., ( MCSN-VD).

Paratypes (15 spec.): same data as holotype, (4 MCSN-VD, 3 MHNG, 2 MNHNSD, 2 JPPC, 4 JHAC) .

Description of the holotype

Body. – Body measurements(inmm):TL2.2, EW 1.4. Dorsal integument black and darkbrown( Fig.3), setationdecumbent, yellow.Ventral integument black with decumbent yellow setation.

Head. – Shiny brown, finely punctate, covered with yellow decumbent setation. Palpomeres brown. Median frontal ocellus present. Eyes large, bearing scarcely visible shortmicrosetae.AntennomeresI-IIblackish-brown,III-VIII light brown, IX-XI dark brown, all with yellow setation. Antennae composed of 11 antennomeres,with a 3-segmented antennal club ( Fig.4).Antennal fossa closed.

Pronotum. – Black, finely punctate, with posterior lateral angles coarsely punctate and covered with yellow setation.

Scutellum. – Brown, small, triangular, without punctation or setation.

Elytra. – Black, becoming brown in the posterior one-third, with decumbent yellow setation. Each elytron with a small humeral bump.

Epipleuron. – Short, dark brown, with some yellow decumbent setation.

Ventral surface. – Mesoventrum and metaventrum black, coarsely punctate, with yellow decumbent setation. Visible abdominal ventrites shiny, black, densely and coarsely punctate, with yellow decumbent setation. Abdominal sternite IX spatulate, with a slightly narrowed apex. Pygidium black, coarsely punctate.

Legs. – Tarsi light brown, tibiae brown, femora brown, all sparsely covered with very short, fine, decumbent brown and yellow setae. Anterior tibiae with black spines along the shaft.

Male genitalia. – ( Fig. 5).

Female. –Externally similar to the male, but distinguished by a smaller antennal club.

Variability. – Body measurements (in mm): TL 1.8-2.6, EW 1.2-1.6.

Etymology. – Patronymic, dedicated to collector and donator of the type material Jiří Hodeček.

Differential diagnosis. – The new species closely resembles C. youngi Kadej & Háva, 2013 , but can be distinguished from this and other Dominican species by the characteristics outlined in the following key.