Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 80. (Budapest 1988)

Merkl, O.: Novelties of Sivacrypticus Kaszab, 1964 and Enneboeus Waterhouse, 1878 (Coleoptera, Archeocrypticidae)

ANNALES HISTORICO-NATURALES MUSEI NATIONALIS HUNGARICI Tomus 80. Budapest, 1988 p. 71-78. Novelties of Sivacrypíicus Kaszab, 1964 and Enneboeus Waterhouse, 1878 (Coleoptera, Archeocrypticidae) by O. MERKL, Budapest O. MERKL: Novelties of Sivacrypticus Kaszab, 1964 and Enneboeus Waterhouse, 1878 (Coleoptera: Archeocrypticidae). — Annls hisî. -nat. Mus. natn. hung. 1988 80: 71-78. Abstract — Sivacrypticus philippinus sp. n. is described from the Philippine Islands. Three new species of Enneboeus (E. barrocolorado sp. n., brasilianus sp. n., rotundus sp. n.) are described from the Neotropical Realm. New faunistical records of Enneboeus caseyi KASZAB, 1981, E. marmoratus CHAMPION, 1893 and E. uniformis CHAMPION, 1893 are given. With 22 figures and 1 table. Up to date 12 genera and 44 species have been described in the tenebrionoid family Archeocrypticidae (KASZAB 1981, KASZAB 1984). Small in size and leading a concealed way of life, archeocrypticids are infrequently taken by methods other than extraction in Berlese funnels — an increase in the number of taxa in the future is very probable. This study is based largely on the unnamed archeocrypticid material of the Museum of Comparative Zoology (Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., USA) (cf. Acknowledgements) and partly on that of Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest. The material consists of 9 species, including a new species of Sivacrypticus KASZAB, 1964 from the Philippine Islands — an area from which this family was hitherto unknown. Seven New World Enneboeus WATERHOUSE, 1878 were recognized, four of them proved to be new to science. Three are described in this paper, while the fourth (from Trinidad) is left undescribed. All the three known specimens of this species are females and have no definite external features that would distinguish them from the female of Enneboeus caseyi KASZAB, 1984 — description of this species must wait for male specimens to become available. The ninth species represented in the material by 8 Argentinian specimens is Archeocrypticus topali KASZAB, 1964, a species widely distributed in Chile and Argentina as well as in New Zealand. Six specimens are from Leleque (Chubut) and one specimen each from Temperley and Llavallol (Buenos Aires). The bulk of specimens, including three holotypes are deposited in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, USA (MCZC). One holotype and some paratypes are housed in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest (HNHM). Abbreviations of measurements — TL = total length of body; TW — total width of body; PL = pronotal length measured along midline; PW = pronotal width measured at broadest point; EL = elytral length measured along suture. Sivacrypticus philippinus sp. n. (Figs 1-8) Measurements of the holotype. TL = 1.97 mm; TW = 1.10 mm; TL/TW = 1.79; PL = 0.55 mm; PW = 1.02 mm; PW/PL = 1.85; EL = 1.22 mm; EL/PL = 2.22. Variability of body length in 97 specimens: 1.93-2.17 mm. Body elongate oval, nearly parallel-sided, weakly convex dorsally; dark reddish brown in colour, dull; with vestiture of yellowish, dense, fine, decumbent hairs; all hairs on elytra directing posteriorly, so elytra not "marmorate". — Habitus: Fig. 1.