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Merkl, O. ; Kondorosy, E.: Benibotarus taygetanus (Pic, 1905) in Hungary (Coleoptera: Lycidae)

The senior author has been collecting beetles in the area since 1994. In 1996, five specimens of Benibotarus taygetanus (PlC, 1905) were collected, followed by further specimens in 1998, 2000 and 2004 (see Lycidae and Omalisidae collected in Ipolytarnóc). Most of the specimens were captured by the use of sweep-net in shaded parts of a highly degraded oak forest mixed with non-indigenous trees (Betula pendula, Pinus sylvestris, Pinus nigra, Robinia pseudoacacia) and with rich undergrowth. One specimen was found on white-washed wall of a house in a clearing. In 2003, in beetle materials coming from the Keszthely Hills (Zala county, western Hungary) the junior author found two lycid specimens which also proved to be Benibotarus taygetanus (PlC). The first specimen has the following data: Zala m., Cserszegtomaj, Csóka-kő, 17. VII. 1993, leg. ELŐD KONDOROSY. It was collected in a xerothermic hill slope at the edge of woods of sessile oak (Quercus Fig. 1. Benibotarus taygetanus (Pic, 1905)