Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 97. (Budapest 2005)

Háva, J. ; Votruba, P.: New distributional data about Dermestidae (Coleoptera) and description of a new species from Sudan

Anthrenus (Anthrenus) kubistái sp. n. (Figs 1-4) Type material - Holotype (male): "SUDAN, prov.[ince] N Darfur, Haluf, 750 m, 10 km n. El Fasher, feuchtes [damp] Wadi" \ "gekätschert 31 .vii.1977 leg. H. J. Bremer". Paratypes ( 66 specimens, not sexed): same data as holotype; (2 males, 1 female): "SUDAN, prov.[ince] Darfur, El Fasher, 730 m" \ "gekätschert, 31.8.1976, H. J. Bremer leg." Holotype and 47 paratypes are deposited in HNHM, 18 paratypes in JHAC, 2 paratypes in PVOC, 2 paratype in SKUC. Type specimens are tagged with a red, printed label with text as follows: "HOLOTYPE [or PARATYPE] Anthrenus (s. str.) kubistái sp. n. J. Hava & P. Votruba det. 2003". Description - Holotype, male. Body length 2.0 mm, width 1.2 mm; body oval, brown. Dorsal surface covered by honey-coloured, brown and white scales (Fig. 1). Head covered by white scales only. Pronotum covered by white scales on lateral margins and brown scales on disc. Elytra with honey-coloured, brown and white scales; white scales forming three transversal fasciae and one spot near scutellum on each elytron. Individual scales (Fig. 4) widest at about proximal 1/3, parallel-sided or slightly tapering toward apex. Antennae 11-segmented, brown, compact antennái club 3-segmented (Fig. 2). Eye with median margin broadly and deeply emarginate at about anterior 1/3. Ventral surface covered with white and honey-coloured scales, abdominal ventrites bearing small spots of honey-coloured scales at antero-lateral margins. Ventrites I-IV without spots in the middle. Prosternum with white scales only. Metaventrite with white scales only, without a large patch at lateral margins. Legs brown with white scales and white setae. Male genitalia: Fig. 3. Female similar to the male, differing in the form of antennae (terminal segment short and small). Variability - Paratypes with body length 1.9-2.5 mm, width 1.1-1.8 mm. White fasciae (especially posterior ones) on elytra variable; anterior spot near scutellum more or less contiguous with anterior fasciae. Distribution - Sudan (Darfur province). Etymology - The name is dedicated to our friend Mr. SIMON KUBISTA (Prague). Remarks -The subgenus Anthrenus s. str. O. F. MÜLLER, 1767 currently contains 58 species worldwide. From the Afrotropical region 10 species are known (HAVA 2003, MROCZKOWSKI 1968). The new species is very similar to Anthrenus (Anthrenus) crustaceus REITTER, 1881 known from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen (HÁVA 2003), but differs from it in the following characters: antennái terminal segment oval (rounded in A. crustaceus, Fig. 5), individual scales narrow, parallel-sided (broad in A. crustaceus, Fig. 7); tip of median lobe pointed broad in A. crustaceus, Fig. 6). * Acknowledgements - We are obliged to the curators and colleagues mentioned in the Introduction for the loan or providing us with specimens in their care, and to Dr. OTTÓ MERKL (HNHM) for reviewing the MS.