Trogoderma diiorioi, HávA, 2017

Trogoderma diiorioi sp. nov. ( Figs. 1-3 View Fig View Figs )

Type material. Holotype (♂)¡ Argentina, Neuquén, Villa La Anapstura, III-2008, Di Iorio O. leg. / larva bajo corteza Nothofagus dombeyi, (JHAC) .

Description.

Male. Measurements (in mm)¡ TL 3.2, EW 1.8. Body short, broad ( Fig. 1 View Fig ); head dark brown; pronotum dark brown, shiny, with sparse brown setation; elytra brown with sparse brown setation; antennae dark brown; legs brown. Head coarsely punctate, sparsely covered with short, golden setation. Palpi light brown. Eyes large, with yellow microsetae. Ocellus on front present. Antennae filiform, dark brown, with short, yellow setation, composed of 11 antennomeres ( Fig. 2 View Figs ). Pronotum shiny, coarsely punctate, dark brown, lateral margins of pronotum smooth. Scutellum dark brown, triangular, without setation. Elytra shiny, brown, without fascia or spots, covered by sparse brown setation. Suture near scutellum with short, longitudinal depression on each elytron from punctures. Epipleuron brown, covered by brown setation. Mesosternum and metasternum covered with brown setation finely punctate. Legs dark brown covered with recumbent, yellow setation. Abdominal sternites dark brown, finely punctate, sparsely covered with recumbent brown setation. Male genitalia as in Fig. 3 View Figs .

Female. Unknown.

Differential diagnosis. The new species is similar to other species distributed in Argentina but differs from them by the characters mentioned in the key below.

Etymology. Dedicated to the memory of my recently deceased colleague

† Osvaldo R. Di Iorio (Buenos Aires, Argentina) .

Bionomy. The species was found (larva under bark) from the tree Nothofagus dombeyi ( Fagales , Nothofagaceae ).