Andreas Herrmann

Two new species, Attagenus balearicus Holloway and Herrmann, and Attagenus vitalii Holloway and Herrmann (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Attageninae) are described from Ibiza (Spain) and France, re-spectively, and compared with A. trifasciatus (Fabricius, 1787). Diferentiation is based on male and female genital structure and associated characters as well as external features such as antennal structure and habitus coloration. Images of habitus, ventrites, antenna, and male and female genital structures are presented. Te new species described are more examples of edge of range species in Dermestidae. Attagenus balearicus was collected from the Balearics and might represent another island endemic along with other recently described species from the region.

A new species, Anthrenus (Florilinus) pintilioaiei Holloway and Herrmann (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Megatominae), is described from Romania and compared with all other species of European Florilinus Mulsant and Rey, 1868. Most European Florilinus species could be eliminated based solely on dorsal color pattern. Differentiation from A. caucasicus Reitter, A. museorum (Linnaeus), and A. olgae Kalik is established using genital structure, antennal structure, and color pattern. Images of habitus, ventrites, antenna, and genitalia are presented. Nine species of subgenus Florilinus are now recorded from Europe.

Two new species, Globicornis (Globicornis) busei Holloway and Herrmann and Globicornis (Globicornis< i>) lienemanni Holloway and Herrmann (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Megatominae) from eastern Mediterranean are described and compared with G. picta (Kuster, 1851), the most likely confounding species because of geographical overlap and external similarity. Images of the habitus, ventrites, antenna, aedeagus, and sternite IX are presented. Ten Globicornis (Globicornis) Latreille, 1829 species are now known from the eastern Mediterranean.

Two new species, Anthrenus (Anthrenodes) pica Holloway and Herrmann and Anthrenus translucens Holloway and Herrmann (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Megatominae) from Oman and Yemen are described and compared with A. malkini Mroczkowski, 1980, the most likely confounding species because of geographical overlap and internal similarity. Images of the habitus, ventrites, antenna, aedeagus, and sternite IX are presented. Nine species of the subgenus Anthrenodes Chobaut are now known from the southern Arabian Peninsula.

A new species, Anthrenus (Anthrenus) sexmaculatus Holloway and Herrmann (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Megatominae) from Turkmenistan is described and compared with A. indicus Kadej and Hava, 2007, A. latefasciatus Reitter, 1892, and A. delicatus Kiesenwetter, 1851, the three most likely confounding species because of geographical overlap and external similarity. Images of the habitus, ventrites, antenna, aedeagus, and sternite IX are presented. Anthrenus sexmaculatus is the twenty-ninth Palaearctic Anthrenus pimpinellae (Fabricius, 1775) group species to be described.

A new species, Anthrenus canadalunai is described and imaged. The new species is compared with two cofounding species: A. angustefasciatus Ganglbauer, 1904 and A. mroczkowskii Kalik, 1954. Images of the habiti, antennae, aedeagi, and sternite IX are presented. The new species is separated from A. angustefasciatus and A. mroczkowskii based on aedeagal and sternite IX structure. Following on from this, external features, such as colour pattern, are identified facilitating identification. The distributions of all three species are presented and discussed.

The Coleopterists Bulletin publishes a wide variety of articles, notes, and book reviews regarding the biology, taxonomy and ecology of beetles (Coleoptera).

During an examination of Spanish Anthrenus spp. held in Andreas Herrmann’s private collection, four specimens of a new species were noted: Anthrenus (Anthrenus) semipallens. Images of habitus features, including antenna, are presented and compared with other Anthrenus species thought to occur in Spain. A. semipallens is small so some comparison species could be eliminated courtesy of size. Although A. semipallens doesn’t resemble the colour pattern of any other species, the possibility that A. semipallens is an unknown colour variant of a comparison species was considered. The A. semipallens specimens were dissected and the aedeagus compared with aedeagi from all other possible species. There was no similarity. Anthrenus semipallens is a valid new species.