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Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Dermestinae) Dermestes (Dermestinus) Szekessyi Kazakh Ssp Bol. R. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., 113, 2019: 29-31 Dermestes (Dermestinus) szekessyi kazakh ssp. nov., a new subspecies from East Kazakhstan (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Dermestinae) Dermestes (Dermestinus) szekessyi kazakh ssp. nov., una nueva subespecie del este de Kazajstán (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Dermestinae) Jiří Háva Daugavpils University, Institute of Life Sciences and Technology, Department of Biosystematics, Vienibas Str. 13, Daugavpils, LV - 5401, Latvia. Private Entomological Laboratory and Collection, Rýznerova 37, CZ - 252 62 Únětice u Prahy, Praha-západ, Czech Republic. [email protected] Recibido: 24 de febrero de 2019. Aceptado: 8 de marzo de 2019. Publicado electrónicamente: 13 de marzo de 2019. Keywords: Taxonomy, New subspecies, Coleoptera, Dermestidae, Dermestinae, Dermestes, Kazakhstan. Palabras clave: Taxonomía, Nueva subespecie, Coleoptera, Dermestidae, Dermestinae, Dermestes, Kazakhstan. ABSTRACT The new subspecies Dermestes (Dermestinus) szekessyi kazakh ssp. nov. from East Kazakhstan is described, illustrated and compared with the nominotypical subspecies. A list of Dermestes species recorded from Kazakhstan is provided. RESUMEN La nueva subespecie Dermestes (Dermestinus) szekessyi kazakh ssp. nov. del este de Kazajstán se describe, ilustra y compara con las subespecies nominotípicas. Se proporciona una lista de las especies de Dermestes registradas de Kazajstán. 1. INTRODUCTION The family Dermestidae (Coleoptera: Bostrichoidea) currently contains about 1600 species and subspecies worldwide (Háva 2015, 2018). The genus Dermestes Linnaeus, 1758 has been divided into 4 subgenera, Dermalius Háva, 2001, Dermestinus Zhantiev, 1967, Dermestes (s. str.) and Montandonia Jacquet, 1886 and currently contains 92 species and subspecies worldwide (HÁVA 2015). Nineteen species are known from Kazakhstan (MROCZKOWSKI 1962, SOKOLOV, 1972, ZHANTIEV 1976, HÁVA & LEGALOV 2010, NAKLÁDAL & HÁVA 2015, HÁVA 2015). In the presented paper a new subspecies is described from Kazakhstan. 2. MATERIAL AND METHODS The size of the beetles or their body parts can be useful in species identification and thus, the following measurements were made: TL: Total length - linear distance from anterior pronotal margin to elytral apex. EW: Elytral width - maximum linear transverse distance of elytra. The material examined and type material included in the present study are deposited in the following collection: JHAC: Private Entomological Laboratory & Collection, Únětice u Prahy, Prague- West, Czech Republic. The nomenclature and zoogeography follow the catalogue by HÁVA (2015). doi: 10.29077/bol/113/ce04_hava ISSN: 2659-2703 -29- J. HÁVA 3. RESULTS Dermestes (Dermestinus) szekessyi szekessyi Kalík, 1950 (Figure 1) Material examined: Kazakhstan, Tarbagataj Mts., Urdzhar env., 1200-1500 m, 13-20.6.1996, Plutěnko lgt., 1 ♂, 1 ♀, (JHAC); „Kazakh SSR [Kazakhstan], Bilikol, 12.6.1982, Jelínek lgt.“, 1 ♂, (JHAC); Kazakhstan W., Janybek, 15.4.1996, V. Perepel lgt., 1 ♂, (JHAC). Distribution: A species known from Europe, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia (HÁVA, 2015). The species was recorded from west and central Kazakhstan by MROCZKOWSKI (1962), SOKOLOV (1972) and ZHANTIEV (1976). Dermestes (Dermestinus) szekessyi kazakh ssp. nov. (Figures 2-3) Type material; Holotype (♀):Vost. [East] Kazachstan, zap. otrogi Narymskogo chr. [Katon-Karagay Raion, Narymskiy Khrebet], dol. r. Kanidy, 10-15 km Slavjanka, stepe, 5-6.5.1999“, (JHAC). Description: Female. Body dark brown to black, oval, convex, covered by recumbent, yellowish-grey setation (Figure 2). Body measurements (in mm): TL 7.3, EW 3.2. Head finely punctured, antennae reddish-brown, with 11 antennomeres, antennal club distinct, with 3 antennomeres. Palpi brown. Forehead without ocellus. Pronotum black, finely punctured, covered by intermixed yellow and grey setation. Scutellum triangular with yellowish- Figs. 1-3. Dermestes (Dermestinus) szekessyi szekesyi Kalík, 1950: 1- ha- white setation. bitus, dorsal aspect (photo by A. Herrmann); Dermestes (Der- Elytra dark brown, finely punctured, mestinus) szekessyi kazakh ssp. nov.: 2- habitus, dorsal aspect, covered by intermixed yellowish-grey 3- habitus, latero-ventral aspect. (all without scale bar). setation; humeri with small bump. Meso-metaventrite black, finely punctured, covered by white setation. Abdominal visible ventrites black, covered by white setation, ventrite II-IV with small black spots laterally, abdominal ventrite V black, with two small, white, spots and yellow setation apically (Figure 3). Legs black, covered by yellowish setation and with dark brown spines laterally; femora with white, broad fasciae. Male: Unknown. Differential diagnosis: The new subspecies differs from the nominotypical one by the yellowish-grey elytral setation without spots (Figure 2) and intermixed yellow and white pronotal setation; the nominotypical specimens has a small yellowish spot on each elytron (Figure 1), and pronotum covered by yellow and brown setation. The similar species D. coronatus Steven in Schönherr, 1808 differs from the new subspecies by its large white pronotal area and femora without white fasciae. Distribution: East Kazakhstan: Narymskiy Khrebet. Etymology: Toponymy, kazakh -named according to the name of the country- Kazakhstan. -30- Comunicaciones especializadas DERMESTES (DERMESTINUS) SZEKESSYI KAZAKH SSP. NOV. 4. LIST OF DERMESTES SPECIES RECORDED FROM KAZAKHSTAN Genus Dermestes Linnaeus, 1758 Subgenus Dermestes (s. str.) Dermestes ater DeGeer, 1774 Dermestes bicolor bicolor Fabricius, 1781 Dermestes haemorrhoidalis Küster, 1852 Dermestes lardarius Linnaeus, 1758 Subgenus Dermestinus Zhantiev, 1967 Dermestes coronatus Steven in Schönherr, 1808 Dermestes dimidiatus Steven in Schönherr, 1808 Dermestes elegans Gebler in Ledebour, 1830 Dermestes erichsoni Ganglbauer, 1904 Dermestes fasciventris Reitter, 1881 Dermestes frischii Kugelann, 1792 Dermestes gyllenhalii gyllenhalii Laporte de Castelnau, 1840 Dermestes laniarius laniarius Illiger, 1802 Dermestes laniarius subfulvicollis Háva, 2003 Dermestes maculatus DeGeer, 1774 Dermestes murinus murinus Linnaeus, 1758 Dermestes sibiricus Erichson, 1846 Dermestes szekessyi szekesyi Kalík, 1950 Dermestes szekessyi kazakh ssp. nov. Dermestes undulatus Brahm, 1790 Subgenus Montandonia Jacquet, 1886 Dermestes roubali (Kalík, 1951) ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am indebted very much to Miloslav Rakovič (Czech Republic) for revision of the English manuscript. REFERENCES HÁVA, J. 2015. World Catalogue of Insects. Volume 13. Dermestidae (Coleoptera). Brill, Leiden/Boston: xxvi + 419 pp. HÁVA, J. & LEGALOV, A. 2010. Contribution to the knowledge to the Dermestidae (Coleoptera) from Siberia and adjacent territories. Amurian Zoological Journal, 2(4): 294-297. MROCZKOWSKI, M. 1962. Dermestidae (Coleoptera) from the Kazakh SSR. Annales Zoologici, 20: 229-259. NAKLÁDAL, O. & HÁVA, J. 2015. A contribution to knowledge of Dermestidae (Coleoptera) from Kazakhstan. Zootaxa, 3905(2): 283-292. SOKOLOV, E. A. 1972. Materialy k faune i ekologii kozheedov (Coleoptera, Dermestidae) Kazakhstana. [Materials for fauna and ekology kozheedov (Coleoptera, Dermestidae) Kazakhstana]. Trudy Kazakhskogo Nauchno-Issledovatelskogo Instituta, 11: 115-137 (in Russian). — 1980. Kozheedy (Coleoptera, Dermestidae) Aksu-dzhabaglinskovo Zapovednika. Trudy Instituta Zoologii Akademii Nauk Kazakhskoy SSR, 39: 61-63 (in Russian). ZHANTIEV R. D. 1976: Zhuki kozheedy fauny SSSR. 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