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)

Podeonius csorbái sp. n. (Figs 23-24) Material examined - Holotype female: Taiwan: Ilan County, Mingchyh Forest Recreation Area, 1200 m, at light, 5.IV.2002, GY. FÁBIÁN & O. MERKL (HNHM). - 1 Paratype female: Nantou County, Kao-Leng Dyi, 18 km W of Wushe, 24°4.605'N, 121°7.583'E, 2074 m, from tree trunks at night, 18-19.IV.2002, D. A. ANSTINE, GY. FÁBIÁN & O. MERKL (CPG). Description - Female. Moderately shiny; entirely black except for antennae and legs, basal margin of pronotum, elytra and central disk of scutellum reddish (holotype) or only antenna, legs and scutellum lighter (paratype); covered with long, dense, recumbent, fulvous vestiture (Fig. 23). Frons convex, flat only at anterior margin, the latter well defined (paratype) to obsolete (holotype), in the middle nearly touching the inferior part of clypeus; puncture very close and umbilicate on all the surface. Antennae (Fig. 24) exceeding by about one antennomere the apices of posterior angles of pronotum, feebly serrate from fourth antennomere; second antennomere as long as broad; third a little longer than second and nearly twice longer than broad; second and third, taken together as long as fourth; fourth to tenth triangular, fourth longer than following and twice longer than broad, the remaining antennomeres shorter; last antennomere a little longer than penultimate, subellipsoidal. Pronotum 1.1 times broader than long, widest at posterior angles, strongly convex, abruptly sloping at sides and base, here with a trace of short, midlongitudinal furrow in the declivity; sides regularly and rather strongly narrowing from base to apex; hind angles elongate, acute, not divergent at apex, bicarinate; inner carina more prominent and directed inside; outer carina shallow and subparallel to lateral margins; punctures coarse and dense on all the surface, on the disk punctures umbilicate with shortest and slightly shagreened interspaces; gradually coarser at sides, with shortest, more shagreened interspaces to contiguous and subrugose at lateral extremity. Scutellum tongue-shaped, moderately convex, roughly punctured. Elytra as broad as pronotum at base, 2.8-2.9 times longer than the latter; sides subparallel in the first half then gradually tapering towards apex; striae well marked and punctured; interstriae with rugose surface. Third tarsomere with long lamella beneath. Prosternai process briefly and nearly vertically bent in the basal part, then running horizontally and emarginate at apex. Size. Length 8.4 (holotype)-8,7 mm; width 2.3 (holotype)-2.5 mm. Male unknown. Etymology - This species is dedicated to Dr. GÁBOR CSORBA (HNHM), mammalogist, studying taxonomy and biogeography of Chiroptera, collector of valuable beetle materials from various Southeast Asian countries, including Taiwan. Comparative remarks - It is separated from the known species of Taiwan by the elongate general outline, the coarse and dense punctation of pronotum giving a dull appearance to the surface.