Ábrahám Levente (szerk.): Válogatott tanulmányok VI. - Natura Somogyiensis 19. (Kaposvár, 2010)
MERKL O., SÁR J. & RINGLER M.: Metaclisa azurea (Tenebrionidae) and Lacon punctatus (Elateridae): updated records from Hungary (Coleoptera)
98 NATURA SOMOGYIENSIS Romania, Russia (the Caucasus in the South European Territories), Slovenia, Syria and Turkey. KASZAB (1957) mentioned it from Croatia, based on specimens from Ludbreg and Vukovar, deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, and Sicily; the latter must be erroneous (Aliquö & Soldati 2010). As for Hungary, more than a half century passed until the species was found again at a few localities in Southern Transdanubia. The species was recorded as new to Romania from the "Dumbrava grazed oak forest" at Tismana in Gorj county by BUSSLER et al. (2005). In the 2000s Hungarian collectors brought back a number of Metaclisa azurea specimens from the Ansariya Mts in Latakia province, Syria, where the species was collected at night from trunks of Quercus coccifera heavily damaged by larvae of longicom beetles. However, the species is much rarer in the European continent, and it seems to be associated with dead wood of large tree trunks standing in the open landscape. Such situations have become very rare in the inner parts of the European continent, and mainly restricted to habitats with ancient trees (e.g. wood pastures). The localities in Southern Transdanubia apparently represent the westernmost and northernmost limits of the range of Metaclisa azurea. Records from Hungary Baranya county: Abaliget [centre of the village: N 46°8'33.90", E 18°6'56.52", 207 m asl], [= collecting date is not stated, but must be in the first half of the 20th century], leg. Victor Stiller (11 specimens, HNHM); Almamellék, Sas-rét, N 46°12T5.30", E 17°53'49.80', 167 m asl, bükk kérge alól [= from beneath bark of beech], 16.IX.2010, leg. József Sár & Miklós Ringler (3 elytra, HNHM); Mozsgó, Bögör-erdő, N 46°6'16.44", E 17°53'47.22", 229 m asl, Fagus trunks, under the bark, 24.V.2009, leg. Miklós Ringler (1 specimen, CMR); Patapoklosi, fáslegelő [= wood pasture], N 46°4'34.78", E 17°42'51.21", 134 asl, Quercus robur kérge alól [= from beneath bark of pedunculate oak], 18.111.2001, leg. Ottó Merkl (2 elytra, HNHM). Somogy county: Gamás, Vadépuszta [centre of the village: N 46°36T0.16", E 17°47'59.27", 181m asl], 1888, leg. János Pável (5 specimens, HNHM); Zselicszentpál, N 46°17'43.56", E 17°49'3.72", 170 m asl, elhalt bükkből, egyelés [=from dead beech, hand-captured], 22.IV.201 1, leg. József Sár & Miklós Ringler (1, specimen, CMR, 1 specimen, HNHM). Lacon punctatus (Herbst, 1779) Remarks The speciose click beetle genus Lacon Laporte, 1838 includes 51 species in the Palaearctic region ( CATE 2007). In Hungary three species are known to occur, even the relatively most frequent Lacon querceus (Herbst, 1784) is very sporadic in the country (MERKL & NÉMETH 2009). Their larvae are carnivorous, preying on insects associated with dead, fungus-grown wood. Lacon punctatus (Herbst, 1779) is widely distributed in the Mediterranean, from Morocco to the Caucasus, with isolated records as north as Germany (CATE 2007). Localities from Czech Republic and Slovakia are mentioned by LAIBNER (2000) and mapped by DUSÁNEK & MERTLIK (2004). In Hungary it is rarely collected; the three localities known up to 2009 were listed by MERKL & NÉMETH (2009). Still unpublished records in Hungary Baranya county: Abaliget [centre of the village: N 46°8'33.90", E 18°6'56.52", 207 m asl], V. 1913, leg. Victor Stiller (3 specimens, HNHM); Baranya county: Mecsek Mts, no closer locality [centre of the mountains is about N 46° 7'59", E 18°11'20"], 24.V1.1936, József Erdős (1 specimen, HNHM).
