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)

Reitterelater pappi sp. n. (Figs 16-17) Material examined - Holotype male: Taiwan: Ilan County, Fu Shan Botanical Garden, 700 m, at light, 25-27.IX.2000, L. PAPP, L. PEREGOVITS & L. RONKAY (HNHM). - 1 Paratype male: same data as holotype (CPG). Description - Male. Shiny; entirely blackish to dark brown, lighter, reddish on anterior margin of frons, base of pronotum and elytra; antennae and legs brown ferruginous; covered with fine, recumbent and partially semierect, fulvous, vestiture (Fig. 16). Frons convex, flat at anterior margin, the latter fine, arcuate, directed downwards to clypeal level; punctures deep, simple to vaguely umbilicate with interstices smaller than their own diameters. Antennae reaching the apices of hind angles of pronotum; second antennomere subcylindrical, a little longer than wide, third slender, subconical, twice longer than broad; second and third, taken together notably longer than fourth; fourth to tenth triangular, about twice longer than broad; last antennomere as long as penultimate, ellipsoidal. Pronotum 1.2 times broader than long, widest behind the middle and at hind angles; regularly convex, abruptly sloping at basal declivity and here with a trace of short midlongitudinal furrow; sides strongly arcuate; just behind the middle towards notably narrowing, posteriorly subsinuate before the hind angles, the latter elongate and rather acuminate, a little converging at apex, bicarinate; inner carina more prominent, directed inside; outer carina shorter, feeble and subparallel to lateral margin; punctation rather variable; on the disk punctures deep, slightly umbilicate with interspaces, on average, equal to puncture diameters; at base sparser, at sides gradually denser and at lateral extremity subovate, umbilicate and nearly contiguous. Scutellum subrectangular, flat, finely punctured. Elytra as broad as base of pronotum, and 2.8 times longer than the latter; sides gradually narrowing from base to apex to suboval, widest at middle; striae deeply punctured; interstriae flat with finer punctation. Propleura with subovate, deep and simple punctures with shortest, feebly shagreened interstices. Male genitalia as in Fig. 17 (length 1.18 mm). Size. Length 8.7 (holotype)-9.5 mm; width 2.62 (holotype)-3 mm. Female unknown. Etymology - This species is dedicated to one of the collectors, Dr. LÁSZLÓ PAPP (HNHM), dipterist, studying taxonomy, ecology and zoogeography of several dipteran families. Comparative remarks - The genus is recorded for the first time from Taiwan, but two species are known from the Ryukyu Islands. The new species is similar to Reitterelater kuribarai OHIRA, 2000 known from a female specimen, but the larger size of the males (the females are generally larger) of the new species seems to be sufficient to separate it from the Japanese species.