Ábrahám Levente (szerk.): Válogatott tanulmányok XVII. - Natura Somogyiensis 33. / Miscellanea 17. (Kaposvár, 2019)
Háva, J.: Contribution to the knowledge of genus Phradonoma (Jacquelin du Val, 1859) from the Afrotropical Region (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Megatominae)
Natura Somogyiensis 33: 5-10. Kaposvár, 2019 Submitted: 30.01, 2019; Accepted: 05.02, 2019; Published: 18.02, 2019 DOI: 10.24394/NatSom.2019.33.5 www.snmi.hu/termtud/ns/ns.htm Contribution to the knowledge of genus Phradonoma (Jacquelin du Val, 1859) from the Afrotropical Region (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Megatominae) JlRÍ HÁVA Daugavpils University, Institute of Life Sciences and Technology, Coleopterological Research Center, Vienlbas Str. 13, Daugavpils, LV - 5401, Latvia 2Private Entomological Laboratory and Collection, Ryznerova 37, CZ - 252 62 Únétice u Prahy, Praha-západ, Czech Republic e-mail: jh.dermestidae@volny.cz HÁVA, J.: Contribution to the knowledge of genus Phradonoma (Jacquelin du Val, 1859) from the Afrotropical Region (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Megatominae). Abstract: The species Phradonoma geiseri sp. nov. from Namibia and Ph. tsavoensis sp. nov. from Kenya are described, illustrated and compared with all known Afrotropical species belonging to the “Phradnonoma nobile species group”. The new species are characteristic by their structure of antennae and male genitalia and elytral colour setation. The species Ph. nobile (Reitter, 1881) is newly recorded from Senegal, Ph. angelusi Háva & Herrmann, 2009 from Kenya and Ph. borowieci Háva & Kadej, 2006 from Zimbabwe. Keys to Afrotropical Phradonoma species are provided. Keywords: taxonomy, new species, new records, description, Coleoptera, Dermestidae, Phradonoma, Afrotropical Region. Introduction The genus Phradonoma currently contains 44 species distributed in Palaearctic and Afrotropical Regions, only one species was introduced into USA and Australia (Háva 2015, Háva & Horák 2017). During the determination of some Dermestidae material deposited in British Museum Natural History, London, England, and author's collection, the present author found two new Phradonoma Jacquelin du Val, 1859 species from Namibia and Kenya described below. Three species are newly recorded. Material and methods The size of the beetles or of their body parts can be useful in species recognition and thus, the following measurements were made: TL: total length - linear distance from anterior margin of pronotum to apex of elytra. EW: elytral width - maximum linear transverse distance. ISSN 1587-1908 (Print); ISSN 2062-9990 (Online) T
