Cephennium torrezzomontis, Kahlen & Eckelt, 2024

Cephennium torrezzomontis nov.sp. ( Figs 26-30 View Figs 26-30 )

T y p e M a t e r i a l: Holotype ♁: Italy / Bergamo , Bergamo Pre-Alps , Monasterolo E, Val delle Colle left slope, 700 m, 45.7644°N, 9.9472°E, 7.5.2023, litter and roots among stones, leg. Kahlen. / Cephennium torrezzomontis nov.sp. ♁ det. Kahlen GoogleMaps / Holotype TLMF. Paratypes: 3♁♁ 5♀♀: same data as holotype, leg. Kahlen ( TLMF) GoogleMaps ; 1♀: 6.11.2023, otherwise same data as holotype, leg. Kahlen ( TLMF) GoogleMaps ; 2♀♀: Italy / Bergamo, Bergamo Pre-Alps, Monasterolo E, Val Torrezzo valley floor, 650- 670 m, 45.7561°N, 9.9453°E, 6.11.2023, litter and Vinca roots, leg. Kahlen ( TLMF) GoogleMaps ; 1♀: Italy / Bergamo, Bergamo Pre-Alps, Monasterolo E, Val Torrezzo Rif. F.lli Giudici vicinity, 750 m, 45.7544°N, 9.9478°E, 5.11.2023, litter and roots among coarse rubble, leg. Kahlen ( TLMF) GoogleMaps .

E t y m o l o g y: The specific name is derived from Monte Torrezzo on the orographic left side of the Val Cavallina, where the specified collecting sites are located.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Habitus as in Fig. 26 View Figs 26-30 . Strikingly large, body length 1.33-1.4 mm. Body along with appendages dark reddish-brown, shiny, hair moderately dense, moderately long, and almost appressed. Head shiny, unpunctured, with small, very clearly laterally protruding eyes. Antennal segment 1 short, 2 1.5 times longer than wide, 3-5 weakly longer than wide, with the 5th segment distinctly larger than segments 3 and 4, 6 to 8 spherical, 7 distinctly larger than 6 and 8, the three-segmented club distinctly demarcated. Pronotum wider than long (1.3: 1), shiny with extremely fine and extremely widespread punctures, greatest width just before the middle, hardly narrowed straightly backwards from here, the lateral margin with an indicated notch, in the male the basal bulge is straightly indicated. Elytra narrower than long (1: 1.35), shiny and with clearly coarser and less widespread punctures than on the pronotum, these punctures are partially connected with indicated wrinkles. Greatest width before the middle, sides evenly rounded. Small round basal pits with dense central tomentose tuft in the middle between suture and lateral margin, on which the humeral folds are strikingly long (almost 0.2 mm) and sharply keeled. In males, the apical third of the front tibiae is distinctly indented ( Fig. 29 View Figs 26-30 ). Underside: ♁ with metaventrite deeply impressed, shiny, smooth and unpunctured in the center, but coarse and densely punctured and hairy at the edges and outside ( Fig. 28 View Figs 26-30 ). Genitalia: Length 0.4 mm. Dorsal Fig. 27 View Figs 26-30 , lateral Fig. 30 View Figs 26-30 .

The species was found syntopic with the much smaller and therefore immediately distinguishable C. horni MACHULKA, 1933 .