Kaszab Zoltán (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 76. (Budapest 1984)

Kirejtshuk, A. G.: New taxa of Nitidulidae (Coleoptera) from the Indo-Malayan fauna

Composition of Taenioncus gen. n. 1. Taenioncus cylindricus (MURRAY. 1864), comb. n. Carpophilus (Myothorax) cylindricus MURRAY. 1864. Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 24: 382 et 397; India, Indochina, New Guinea. 2. Taenioncus tenuis tenuis (MURRAY, 1864), comb. n. Carpophilus (Myothorax) tenuis MURRAY, 1864, loc. cit.: 382 et 397, East China, Japan. Taenioncus tenuis hana (Nakane, 1959), comb. n. Carpophilus (Myothorax) tenuis hana NAKANE, 1959, Sei. Rep. Kyoto prefect Univ. (Nat. Sei.) 3:54; Japan. 3. Taenioncus micros sp. n. Philippine Islands. 4. Taenioncus /wz^wr (GROUVELLE, 1912), comb. n. Carpophilus longior GROUVELLE. 1912, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg.. 56: 11 ; Zaire, Ethiopia*. Taenioncus cylindricus (MURRAY, 1864), comb. n. (Figs. 138-146) Material. 25 specimens: India, W. Bengal, Birsivpur, fruits of Ficus, 13 Jan. 1967, Gy. TOPÁL (TM and ZIN); 1 ex.: ibid., Calcutta, Ramakrishna Miss., Guest House, at light, 16-20 Dec. 1979. Gy. TOPÁL (TM); 4 specimens: Vietnam, Cucphonug, Ninhbinh, from blossoming Dracena, 11-17 May 1966, Gy. TOPÁL (TM and ZIN); 1. ex.: "Brit. New Guinea, leg. MAZALAN". "Epuraea longicollis Sjöberg, sp. n." (inédit.) (TM). Length 1.8-2.5, breadth 0.6-0.8, height 0.5-0.6 mm. Elongate, parallel-sided; straw yellow to light brownish; dull; with fairly well dense and long, contrasting golden pubescence. — Head surface with oval punctures somewhat larger than eye facets, separated by distance equal to less than 1/2 puncture diameter, intervals closely mesh-reticulated. Pronotal surface more sparsely punctured, with distance between punctures 1/2 to 1.0 puncture diameter, but elytral one much more sparsely punctured. — Genitalia: in both male and female slightly sclerotised. Taenioncus micros sp. n. (Figs. 147-150) Material. I rf. holotype: "Philippines, Balabac. Dalawan Bay, 8 Oct. 1961. Noona Dan exp.", "Caught by Mercury-light", "19.00-23.30" (ZM). Male, holotype. Length 2.1, breadth 0.6, height 0.4 mm. Elongate, subparallel-sided, moderately convex; light brownish; dull; with long and sparse, not strongly contrasting golden pubescence. —-Head with oval punctures about as large as eye facets separated by distance equal to half to third puncture diameter, intervals closely reticulated. Pronotal surface nearly same as on head, but punctures almost 1.5 times larger than eye facets. Elytral one with punctures subequal to those on pronotum separated approximately distance equal to a puncture diameter, intervals closely reticulated. Hind tibia shorter than antenna. — Genitalia: Aedeagus slightly sclerotised. Diagnosis. — T. micros sp. n. is similar to T. cylindricus comb. n. and T. tenuis comb. n. but distinct from them in its slender body shape, short and stouter tibiae as hind as fore and intermediate as well as in its male genital structures. Pronotal shape of new species seems to be clearly different from those of other congeners. Moreover, T. micros sp. n. differs from T. longior comb. n. in its unicolorous and smaller body, unbroadened inner edge of fore tibia, genital structures and so on. * Taenioncus longior comb. n. is known to the author from specimens on loan from the Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale: Zaire, Elisabeth ville,Sept. 1959,Ch; Seydel & Ethiopia, Illubabor pro v., Pokwo, Baro riv. 25 Aug. 1972, R.O.S. ClARKI'. 13 Természettudományi Múzeum Évkönyve 1984