Cryptorhopalum sharpi, HávA, 2015

HávA, Jiří, 2015, Cryptorhopalum sharpi sp. nov., a new species from Ecuador (Coleoptera ¡ Dermestidae ¡ Megatominae)., Arquivos Entomolóxicos 13, pp. 213-214 : 213-214

Cryptorhopalum sharpi sp. nov. (Figs. 1-2)

Type material. Holotype (feMAle) lAbelled AS followS: “ EcUAdor, PAStAZA Prov., 1000 M, 25 kM N PUyo, 13.VII.1976, cloUd foreSt litter”. The type Spec imen was labelled, with a redprinted label bearing the text AS followS: “ HOLOTYPE Cryptorhopalum sharpi Sp. nov. Jiří HávA det. 2015”.

Description. Female measurements (in mm)¡ TL 2.2, PL 0.5, PW 1.1, EL 1.8, EW 1.4. Dorsal integument black with orange elytral spot, pubescence recumbent, golden-yellow. Ventral integument black and dark brown, pubescence recumbent, golden-yellow. Head shiny black and finely punctated, covered with several golden-yellow recumbent setation. Palpi light brown. Median frontal ocellus present. Eyes large with hardly visible short microsetae. Antennae brown, with yellow setation, consisting of 11 antennomeres, antennal club with 3 antennomeres (Fig. 1). Pronotum with black integument and long golden-yellow pubescence. Elytra much more densely and finely punctated than the pronotum, with black integument and also short golden-yellow recumbent pubescence. Each elytron with one orange spot covered by short golden-yellow pubescence. Scutellum black, small, triangular and without punctation and setation. Epipleuron short, black with some yellow recumbent setation. Metasternum finely punctate with golden-yellow recumbent pubescence. Abdominal visible ventrites dark brown, densely and coarsely punctated, with golden-yellow recumbent pubescence. Legs¡ tarsi brown, tibiae brown, femora dark brown, sparsely covered with very short and fine recumbent golden-yellow setae.

Male unknown.

Differential diagnosis. The new species resembles very much the species Cryptorhopalum bicolor Sharp, 1902 ( Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama) and C. divisum Sharp, 1902 ( Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama), but differs from them by the colour pattern of elytral fasciae. Cryptorhopalum bicolor has a reddish spot on elytra covered by reddish setation; C. divisum has an orange spot on elytra covered by yellow setation; Cryptorhopalum sharpi sp. nov. has an orange spot on elytra covered by golden setation.

Etymology.The name is dedicated to the excellent English physician and entomologist David Sharp (1840-1922).

Distribution. Ecuador ¡ provin. of Pastaza ( Map 1 ).

Figs. 1-2.- Cryptorhopalum sharpi sp. nov. ¡ 1.- Antennal club of female. 2.- Elytron.

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Map 1.- Province of Pastaza in Ecuador, where Cryptorhopalum sharpi sp.nov. has been discovered.