Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 99. (Budapest 2007)

Platia, G. ; Schimmel, R.: Click beetles of Taiwan collected by the expeditions of the Hungarian Natural History Museum in the years 1955 to 2003 (Coleoptera: Elateridae)

Material examined - 1 male. Taiwan: Nantou County, Kao-Leng Dyi, 18 km W of Wushe, 24°4.56l'N, 121°8.046'E, 1945 m, swept from vegetation, 18-19.1V.2002, D. A. ANSTINE, GY. FÁBIÁN & O. MERKL. Scutellathous spinosus sp. n. (Figs 5-7) Material examined - Holotype male: Taiwan: Ilan County, Fu Shan Botanical Garden, 700 m, at light, 25-27.IX.2000, L. PAPP, L. RONKAY & L. PEREGOVITS (HNHM). - 1 Paratype male: Ilan County, Fu Shan Botanical Garden, LTER site, 24°45'47"N, 12P35'75"E, 700 m, 4-7.VIII.1999, A. KUN (CPG). Description - Male. Entirely ferruginous with vague blackish shadings particularly on head and pronotum; covered with short, recumbent, yellow-fulvous vestiture (Fig. 5). Head with eyes as broad as anterior margin of pronotum; frons deeply impressed from middle or under the anterior margin, the latter strongly thickened and protruding well above clypeus; punctures very coarse, umbilicate, with shortest interspaces to contiguous. Antennae not reaching for about one antennomere the apices of hind angles of pronotum, feebly serrate from third antennomere; second antennomere subcylindrical, more than twice longer than wide; third subtriangular, 2.5 times longer than second, and longer than following; last antennomere ellipsoidal, abruptly and symmetrically constricted at apical third. Pronotum a little longer than broad, widest at posterior angles; very convex on the disk, abruptly sloping at base with a trace of short midlongitudinal furrow in the basal declivity; sides moderately arcuate, rather narrowing at apical third; subparallel to slightly sinuate before the posterior angles, the latter truncate, not divergent, with a short carina subparallel to lateral margin; punctation coarse and variable; on the disk with deep, vaguely umbilicate, more or less spaced punctures; at sides gradually denser, superficial, clearly umbilicate with shortest interstices to contiguous. Scutellum subrectangular, gently convex, sparsely punctured. Elytra as broad as base of pronotum and 2.5-2.6 times longer than the latter; base before humeral angles with a short and spiniform projection (Fig. 6); sides widest at middle, then gradually narrowing; striae deeper around the scutellum, then more superficial and distinctly punctured; interstriae subconvex, densely punctured. Male genitalia as in Fig. 7 (length 1.75 mm). Size. Length 13-16 mm (holotype); width 3.2-4 mm (holotype). Female unknown. Etymology - The name of this species refers to the spiniform projections at base of each elytra. Comparative remarks - The new species can be easily separated from Scutellathous yamashitai ARIMOTO, 1992 by the shorter antennae not reaching the apices of the posterior angles of the pronotum and by the anterior angles of the latter being regularly rounded.