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

INTRODUCTION GROUVELLE (1914) published the first survey on the nitidulid fauna of Taiwan with description of some new species. After this publication few additional facts for this fauna have been published in different works. The present paper is based mostly on specimens collected by staff members of the Hungarian Natural History Museum (Budapest) and other Hungarian entomologists. The author had a possibility to supplement these specimens with specimens deposited in other collections. In some cases he needed to test the type series and some unnamed specimens from other areas of the Indo-Malayan region in order to clarify taxonomical interpretation of specimens from Taiwan. All these specimens have been studied and identified. In cases, if some specimens were named by somebody before the present study, the author mentioned the personality, who identified these specimens. But if the studied specimens were identified with the names different from the taxonomical attribution, used in this paper, these names as well as the authors of different interpretations were mentioned. As a result of summarizing of all data, a list of 82 species was compiled. In the paper these data are supplied by a short discussion on distribution of each considered species. In connection with a necessity to give a clear interpretation and definition of the new species of Amphicrossus found on Taiwan, description of some new species from this genus are proposed. The subfamily Epuraeinae recorded from Taiwan was considered in the monograph devoted to the fauna of Himalayas and Northern Indochina (KlREJTSHUK 1998). However, the recent materials brought some new data which are included in the present publication. The paper is divided into two parts. In the first part, the species recorded from Taiwan are listed and data on the specimens studied by the author and information on distribution of these species are given. The second part is devoted to the description of the new species, other taxonomical notes and it is supplied by a key to the Amphicrossus species, whose males bear a pair of paramedial brushes at the elytral suture. In some cases the Indo-Malayan "species" of this genus form pairs according to the presence/absence of these paramedial brushes on male elytra. Moreover, these brushes show a more or less expressed variability. However, at present the author prefers to name every member of these pairs as a separate species expecting that a future study will be able to clarify the real situation with these "species". Depositories - BMNH = Natural History Museum in London (formerly British Museum of Natural History); DEI = Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, Müncheberg; FMNH = Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago; HNHM = Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest; IRSN = Institut Royal des Sciences naturalles, Bruxelles; MSNG = Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova;