Cryptorhopalum cuespani, Herrmann, Háva & Kadej, 2015

Herrmann, Andreas, Háva, Jiří & Kadej, Marcin, 2015, New Dermestidae (Coleoptera: Bostrichoidea) from Peru., Arquivos Entomolóxicos 13, pp. 67-74 : 72

Cryptorhopalum cuespani sp. nov.

( Figs. 3 a-d)

Type material. Holotype (Male) labelled: “ PERU, region Huanuco, 40 km NE of Tingo Maria, Abra Divisoria, road to Rio Azul village , 9°12’S- 75°49’W, 1600M, 11.IV.2013 R.Constantin & L.HuaMan Cuespán” ( MUSM) . Paratypes (not sexed): 16 exx. with the same record data as the Holotype; 8 exx. labelled: “ PERU, pr. Leoncio Prado, Tingo Maria 3 kM SE white wall UNAS, light, 9°19’S-75°59’W, 674M, 11.IV.2013 R.Constantin & L.Huaman Cuespán ”; 4 exx. labelled: “ PERU, pr. Leoncio Prado , Tingo Maria 15 kM sud Sta Rosa de Quesada, 9°23’S- 75°58’W, 830M, 14.IV.2013 R.Constantin & L.Huaman Cuespán ”; 1 ex. labelled: “ PERU, region Huanuco, tunel Carpish 10 kM norte flowering bushes, 9°39’S-76°03’W, 1823m, 15.IV.2013 R.Constantin & L.Huaman Cuespán ” . Paratypes are stored in (8 MUSM, 8 AHEC) ; 1 ex. labelled: “ PERU, Huanuco, Tingo Maria env., 15-16.XI.2001, O. Safranek lgt.” ( JHAC) .

Description.

Male habitus as in Fig. 3a . Measurements (in mm): TL 2.8, PL 0.6, PW 1.5, EL 2.3, EW 1.7. Dorsal integument black, pubescence blackish brown and white. Ventral integument also black, pubescence white. Head shiny black and coarsely punctated, covered with several white recumbent hairs. Palpi brown. Median frontal ocellus present. Eyes large with hardly visible short microseta. Antennae, 11- segmented, shaft except the first segment yellow, with a big 2-segmented light brown antennal club, the terminal segment is distinctly smaller than the preceeding and darkened towards its end ( Fig. 3b ). Pronotum with black integument and short brown pubescence, white recumbent hairs cover broadly the lateral margins as well a blurred spot in the middle of the apical margin, very sparsely and finely punctated. Elytra much more densely and coarsely punctated than the pronotum, with black integument and also short brown recumbent pubescence. White recumbent hairs are intermixed and build two transverse fasciae as well as a spot: the first fascia runs from the elytral margin to the suture, then follows the suture and reaches the scutellum; the second one is located in the apical fourth and interrupted at the suture; the apical spot covers the tip of the elytra. Scutellum small, triangular and without punctuation. Epipleuron black with some white recumbent hairs. Abdominal segments black, densely and coarsely punctated, with white brown recumbent pubescence ( Fig. 3c ). Legs brown, covered sparsely with very short and fine recumbent brown hairs, the edges of the tibiae with a row of brown spines each. Tarsi roughly as long as the tibiae. Aedeagus as in Fig. 3d .

Female habitually similar to male but, as usual in this genus, with a smaller antennal club.

Differential diagnosis.

Cryptorhopalum cuespani differs from all other so far known Cryptorhopalum species by the form and arrangement of its elytral fasciae.

Etymology.

Friendly dedicated to Leonard Huaman Cuespán, a young entomologist at Tingo Maria, engineer in renewable natural resources and forestry, graduate of UNAS, Universidad Nacional Agraria de la Selva at Tingo Maria, specialized in Cerambycidae , and member of the research staff of the laboratory of entomology at the UNAS.

Figures

Figs. 3a-d. Cryptorhopalum cuespani sp. nov. (holotypus, male). a.- Habitus. b.- Antenna. c.- Abdomen. d.- Genitalia.