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)

complete exposed clypeal space, are sufficient to erect a new genus of the tribe Ampedini. Etymology - The new genus is dedicated to Dr. OTTÓ MERKL, curator of Coleoptera Collection of the HNHM, who kindly sent us all material on which this paper is based. Merklelater anstinei sp. n. (Figs 11-15) Material examined - Holotype male: Taiwan: Taipei County, Neitong Forest Recreation Area, 6 km S of Wulai, at light, 7.IV.2002, GY. FÁBIÁN & O. MERKL (HNHM). - 1 Paratype female: 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.IV.2002, D. A. ANSTINE, GY. FÁBIÁN & O. MERKL (HNHM). Description - Male (Fig. 11). Moderately shiny; entirely yellow-ferruginous, except for antennae blackish from third antennomere. Covered with dense, long, recumbent, fulvous vestiture. Frons convex with anterior margin slightly thickened, arcuate, in the middle touching upwards of clypeus; punctures coarse, umbilicate, contiguos. Antennae (Fig. 14) exceeding by about three antennomeres the apices of hind angles of pronotum; second antennomere globose; third conical, longer than second and shorter than fourth, sculptured as the latter; second and third, taken together a little longer than fourth; fourth to sixth triangular, a little longer than wide; seventh to tenth slender, about twice longer than wide; last antennomere a little longer than penultimate, subellipsoidal. Pronotum 1.35 times broader than long, widest at hind angles; convex, abruptly sloping at base, without midlongitudinal furrow; sides subparallel in the posterior half, gradually narrowing anteriorly from middle; hind angles long, not divergent, with a very short and feeble carina directed inside; punctation coarse and dense, on the disk with subovate, umbilicate, very close punctures, giving the surface a feeble substriate appearance more evident at sides with punctures strongly umbilicate and contiguous. Scutellum tongue-shaped, flat, densely punctured. Elytra a little narrower than base of pronotum, three times longer than the latter; sides subparallel for about two third of its length; striae well marked and deeply punctured; interstriae fiat with rough surface. First tarsomere of posterior tarsi very elongate, as long as three following taken together (Fig. 13). Male genitalia as in Fig. 15 (length 0.775 mm). Female (Fig. 12). Very similar to male, but with shorter and less serrate antennae, exceeding only by two antennomeres the apices of posterior angles of pronotum; the third antennomere is reddish as the first two and only subconical. Size. Length 5.3 (male)-5.9; width 1.56 (male)-1.68 mm. Etymology - This species is dedicated to the entomologist Dr. DANIEL A. ANSTINE (Morrison Museum of Natural Science, Taichung, Taiwan), who was very helpful when the Hungarian collectors worked in the mountains of Nantou County, Taiwan.