Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 97. (Budapest 2005)

Kirejsthuk, A. G.: On the fauna of Nitidulidae (Insecta, Coleoptera) from Taiwan with some taxonomical notes

longitudinal patches on elytra somewhat infuscate. 3.9 mm. Figs 109-118. Philippines (Mindanao) A. nebulosus sp. n. Antennái club more or less oblong, at least 1.25 as long as wide; prosternai process moderately narrow between coxae and rather widened before rounded posterior edge; elytral apices subtruncate; usually much darker 14 Pygidium gently rounded at apex; paramedial brushes of hairs on elytra frequently longer than antennái club; hypopygidium comparatively deeply excised; lobes of tegmen strongly widened before apex. 4.3-6.8 mm. Japan, China (Fujian, Taiwan) (A. nigrinus BOLLOW, 1941 is the evident junior synonym of it, but A. korschefskyi BOLLOW, 1941 could be synonymised with A. piceus MOTSCHULSKY, 1863) A. japonicus REITTER, 1873 Pygidium subtruncate or emarginate at apex; paramedial brushes of hairs on elytra shorter than antennái club; hypopygidium comparatively shallowly excised; lobes of tegmen gradually narrowed apically. 4.1-7.4 mm. Figs 55-71 A. lobanovi sp. n. See also couplet 11. Subfamily Meligethinae Meligethes (Meligethes) zakharenkoi sp. n. (Figs 130-135) Description of male (holotype) - Length 2.6, width 1.7, height 0.8 mm (Fig. 130). Unicolorous reddish with tarsi and antennae slightly lighter; moderately shining; dorsum with fine and rather conspicuous yellowish golden hairs, more than 3 times as long as the distance between their insertions. Head with punctures about as large as eye facets in diameter, interspaces between them more or less narrower than a puncture diameter and smoothly microreticulated. Pronotum about as punctured and sculptured as head, but interspaces on disk almost smooth. Elytra with finer sparser punctures, interspaces between them markedly broader than a puncture diameter and smooth, puncturation with a slight tendency to form irregular transversely oblique rows of 4-7 punctures and becoming finer apically. Prosternai process with very dense punctures, about as large as eye facets in diameter. Metasternum and ventrite 1 with more or less distinct punctures, markedly smaller than half of eye facets in diameter, broad interspaces between them completely smooth to smoothly microreticulated. Head nearly as long as distance between eyes, anterior edge of frons straight. Antennái club composing about 2/7 of total antennái length, subovoid (with ultimate antennomere very slightly narrower than previous), about 1 and 1/3 as long as wide (about 4/5 as wide as protibia). Pronotum with anterior edge rather arcuately than trapezoidally excised; its posterior edge clearly sinuate at each posterior angle; moderately steeply sloping to slightly subexplanate sides. Elytra slightly shorter than combined width, subvertical at sides, subtruncate at apices and with suturai lines expressed in distal 3/4. Pygidium widely rounded at apex. Antennái grooves subparallel. Last labial palpomere about twice as long as wide, clearly narrowed apically. Mentum about 2.5 times as wide as long and about twice as wide as antenna! club, with arcuate sides. Prosternai process (Fig. 132) with slightly widened