Phradonoma cornelli, Háva & Herrmann, 2009

Háva, Jiří & Herrmann, Andreas, 2009, Two new Phradonoma species (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Megatominae) from Cameroon, Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 9 (2), pp. 125-128 : 127-128

Phradonoma cornelli sp. n.

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Type material. Holotype (male): Cameroon, West Prov. , Bafoussam, under bark and at light, 20- 22.ix.2007, C. DingaDinga, ( AHEC) . Paratypes (9 spec.): the same data as holotype, (4 in AHEC, 5 in JHAC) .

Description of holotype. Male. Body dark brown to black, longish oval, (Fig. 4). Length of body 2.5 mm, width of body 1.5 mm. Head coarsely punctuate, with long more or less decumbent light brown hairs, maxillary palpi darkish brown, eyes large with microsetae, antennae 11- segmented with a 3- segmented club. The first segment of the antennae is brown, the club very darkish brown to black and all other segments are yellow

(Fig. 5). Forehead with ocellus. Pronotum entirely black, shiny, sparsely and not very coarsely punctate, with strong dark and slightly erected hairs, white and light brown hairs are intermixed, their concentration increases towards the lateral margins and hind edges. Lateral margins are not visible from above. Scutellum small, black and triangular, without hairs or puncture. Elytrae dark brown, the anterior part black, sparsely and coarsely punctate. They are sparsely covered by slightly erected dark hairs. Several diffuse margins of light brown and (mainly) white hairs build three or four very blurred fasciae and an apical spot. The underside of the specimen is coarsely and (especially the visible sternits) more densely punctate than the elytrae and pronotum, covered with straight and procumbent brown hairs. Tibiae and tarsae are reddish brown, the femurs anteriorly darkened and sparsely covered with fine brown hairs. Male genitalia (Fig. 6).

Female. Externally very similar to male, but the antenna is a little bit shorter with a slightly smaller club.

Variability. Length of body 2.1 - 2.6 mm, width of body 1.3 - 1.6 mm.

Differential diagnosis. The new species belonged to the “ P. nobile species group“ defined by Háva (2006); species visualy similar to P. albonotatum (Pic, 1927) and P. borowieci

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Figs 4-6. Phradonoma cornelli n. sp., holotype: 4- habitus; 5- antenna of male; 6- aedeagus. Háva & Kadej, 2006b, but differs from them by the colour on the elyra and pronotum, forms of male and female antennae and structure of male genitalia; from other known species belonged to the species group differts by the form of antennae and structure of male genitalia.

Etymology. Patronymic, dedicated to the coleopterist Dr. James Cornell (Mecklenburg, USA).