Rhytomus setulosus ( Balthasar, 1965 ), 2025

Rhytomus setulosus ( Balthasar, 1965) , new combination

Fig. 7G View FIGURE 7 , 8G View FIGURE 8

Tesserodon setulosum Balthasar, 1965: 17 View in CoL (original description)— Paulian 1985: 221 (diagnosis, distribution, comment)— Bezděk & Hájek 2011: 374 (type data, comment); Gunter et al. 2019: 453 (distribution)

Name-bearing type data. Holotype ♀ ( NMPC): || N. Guinea | Biró 1899 ||; || Sattelberg | Huon-Golf ||; || 1899 | IV.1-15 || [handwritten on verso of previous label]; || Tesserodon | setulosum | n.sp. Balth. | 63 Holotypus || [partly handwritten]. Studied.

Material examined (2 ♀♀). PAPUA NEW GUINEA: MOROBE PROVINCE, Sattelberg , [06°29’S, 147°46’E], 1–15.iv.1899, Biró —♀ holotype, 1 ♀ paratype ( NMPC) (female paratype examined via image courtesy of Jiří Hájek).

Redescription. Measurements. Body length 3.2 mm, maximum body width 2.3 mm. Body. Overall body shape in dorsal view oval, elytral edge evenly rounded from base to apex. Head. Clypeal edge lateral to clypeal teeth lacking emargination, head margin at clypeogenal suture of females moderately protruding. Dorsal parts of eyes semi-ovoid, separated by an interocular space of about 5.3 times eye width. Pronotum. Pronotal width to length along midline ratio 1.9, lateral pronotal edge sharply defined throughout, pronotal pubescence short and fine, pronotal basal portion along midline lacking fine longitudinal depression. Elytra. Elytral maximum width to length along suture ratio 1.0, elytral outline strongly convex in lateral view, elytral pubescence short and fine, elytral surface between punctures appearing glossy, at most with ill-defined microsculptures, basal elytral pit wide and deep, basal surface of pseudepipleuron with irregularly distributed more or less defined punctures, interstriae 3–5 on basal fifth with scattered unaligned punctures on interstriae 3 and 5 and two rows of punctures along striae with the odd unaligned punctures on interstria 4. Legs. Profemoral anterior surface flat. Pygidium. Pygidial surface along midline with punctures absent or distinctly more scattered than rest of discs, at least basally, pygidial surface along basal groove smooth between punctures, pygidium of female evenly convex ( Fig. 8G View FIGURE 8 ).

Remarks. No male specimens known for this species.