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)

Comparative remarks - The new species can be compared with Ampedus tattakensis OHIRA, 1966 for the colour and sparser punctures of pronotum; it can be separated by the more slender body with elytra very elongate compared to the pronotum and the very shallow carina on the hind angles of pronotum. Ampedus fabiani sp. n. (Figs 9-10) Material examined - Holotype female: Taiwan: Nantou County, Tatachia, 23. XI. 2002, WEN KUANG-TANG (HNHM). Description - Female. Shiny; entirely black piceous only with claws reddish; covered with blackish vestiture, recumbent on elytra, semierect to erect on pronotum and sides of body (Fig. 9). Frons moderately convex, with anterior margin obsolete in the middle, and touching the inferior part of clypeus; punctures deep, slightly umbilicate, variable in side and density, more or less spaced to nearly contiguous. Antennae not reaching for about two antennomeres the apices of posterior angles of pronotum, serrate from fourth antennomere; second antennomere globose; third subconical, longer than second, less than twice longer than broad and shorter than fourth; second and third antennomeres, taken together as long as fourth; fourth to tenth triangular, less than twice longer than wide; last antennomere as long as penultimate, ellipsoidal. Pronotum 1.1 times wider than long, widest at posterior angles, moderately convex, gradually sloping at base with a vestige of midlongitudinal depression in the declivity; sides rather strongly narrowing anteriorly from middle; from middle to hind angles nearly parallel, the latter pointed, slightly divergent, with a short but prominent carina directed inside. Punctation moderate; on the disk punctures deep, simple to vaguely umbilicate, well spaced, on average with interspace larger than their own diameters to more; at sides gradually coarser with short interstices, only at sides of posterior angles nearly contiguous. Scutellum tongue-shaped, just longer than wide, strongly declivous, flat, with a vestige of midlongitudinal carina at apex, densely punctured. Elytra as broad as pronotum at base, 2.9 times longer than the latter; sides subparallel for about two third of its length, then gradually tapering to apex; striae very shallow and impunctate at base then gradually more impressed and punctured; interstriae flat with finer and dense punctures. Prosternai process feebly emarginate at apex. Bursa copulatrix with the typical series of sclerified spines as in Fig. 10. Size. Length 12 mm; width 3.3 mm. Male unknown. Etymology - The species is dedicated to Mr. GYÖRGY FÁBIÁN (Budapest, Hungary), lepidopterist, explorer of the Asian Macrolepidoptera, studying mostly Noctuidae and Sphingidae, and collector of a number of Taiwanese beetles. Comparative remarks - Among the black Taiwanese species this new one is very similar to Ampedus masamichii KlSHII, 1990 for the very sloping scutellum, the elevated suturai ends of elytra behind the scutellum, but can