Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 94. (Budapest 2002)
Kirejtsuk, A. G. ; Viklund, B.: Contributions to the knowledge on the subgenus Meligethes (Clypeogethes Scholtz, 1932) from Kenya (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae)
Most African species of the subgenus Clypeogethes have quite characteristic and stable structures of genitalia in both sexes. In all cases the authors provide the description of each new species with drawings of these organs. Specific features included in the illustrations are not mentioned in the text, except in those cases when some comments are necessary to draw more attention for future comparison. Abbreviations of depositories - HNHM - (Hungarian Natural History Museum) Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum, Budapest; NRS - Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm; ZISP Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Sankt-Petersburg; DESCRIPTIONS Meligethes (Clypeogethes) attactus sp. n. (Figs 1-6) Specimen examined. - Kenya: holotype, male (NRS) - "Voi: Mtito Andei, light-trap on the roof of Tsavo Inn, 24/11-25/11/1990, Peeter Päts & Bert Viklund". Description of male (holotype) - Length 2.3, width 1.3, height 0.6 mm (Fig. 1). Rather convex dorsally and ventrally; black, with dark brown legs and reddish palpi and antennae; dorsum rather shining, with dense, conspicuous, but moderately short and fine reddish grey hairs, markedly longer than distance between their insertions; underside slightly shining, with more conspicuous and longer pubescence. Head and pronotum with distinct punctures, somewhat smaller than eye facets in diameter, interspaces between them about a puncture diameter (or broader at anterior edge of head) and completely smooth. Elytra with distinct and not quite oval (slightly elongate) punctures markedly larger than eye facets (in diameter up to twice larger), forming scarcely traced oblique rows, interspaces between punctures about half a puncture diameter and quite smooth. Pygidium finely granulöse with indistinct punctation (similar to that of the head). Surface of prosternai process similar to that of head and pronotum, but punctures as those on anterior part of head and interspaces between them about 2 puncture diameters. The surface of metasternum and ventrite 1 as punctured and sculptured as elytra, but interspaces somewhat narrower; punctures and microreticulation of other ventrites similar to those of pygidium. Head slightly and gently convex dorsally, nearly as long as distance between eyes, with arcuate striae along anterior part of inner edge of eyes, its anterior edge distinctly bordered, arcuately excised and with pointed lateral angles (Fig. 2). Antennae about 3/5 as long as head width, their club subovoid, about 1 and 1/4 as long as wide and rounded at apex (with greatest length about twice more than length of antennomere 2), constituting about 2/7 of total antennái length. Pronotum with steeply sloping and not explanate sides (narrowly bordered), posterior angles broadly rounded. Scutellum with broadly rounded apex. Elytra with steeply sloping sides and with marked trace of humeral stria; lateral edges visible from above. Pygidium with subangular apex. Antennái grooves distinctly divergent. Mentum subquadrangular and slightly bisinuate at anterior edge of its basal part, about 2.5 times as wide as long, surface without distinct fossa. Prosternai process rather wide (about twice wider than antenna! club) and far projecting posteriorly, with a
