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)

Sericus (Shirozulus) formosanus (OHIRA, 1966) Shirozulus formosanus OHIRA, 1966b: 271. Sericus (Shirozulus) formosanus (OHIRA, 1966): SUZUKI 1999: 195. Material examimed - 1 female. Taiwan: Nantou County, Kao-Leng Dyi, 18 km W of Wushe, 24°4.561'N, 121°8.046'E, 1945 m, swept from vegetation, 18-19.IV.2002, D. A. ANSTINE, GY. FÁBIÁN & O. MERKL. Mulsanteus peregovitsi sp. n. (Figs 25-27) Material examined - Holotype male: Taiwan: Ilan County, Fu Shan Botanical Garden, 700 m, swept from vegetation, 8-11.IV.2002, O. MERKL (HNHM). - 1 Paratype male: Nantou County, 6 km E of Wushe, 24°01'82"N, 121°10'65"E, 1300 m, 21.IV.1997, L. PEREGOVITS & A. KUN (CPG). Description - Male. Moderately shiny; dark brown with antennae, palps and legs lighter, ferruginous; covered with fulvous vestiture, semierect on the body, erect on antennomeres (Fig. 25). Head with eyes as wide as the anterior margin of pronotum; frons convex to flat at anterior margin, the latter complete and straight; punctures coarse, umbilicate and contiguous. Antennae (Fig. 26) exceeding hind angles of pronotum by three antennomeres; second and third antennomeres globous, broader than long, the third obliquely truncate; second and third, taken together, much shorter than fourth; fourth to tenth antennomeres strongly serrate, sublamellate, at apex emarginate; fourth to sixth just longer than wide; seventh to tenth slender and more elongate; eleventh longer than penultimate, subellipsoidal. Pronotum as long as broad, widest at posterior angles; strongly convex, at base vertically, at sides abruptly sloping; sides from base to anterior margin regularly narrowing; posterior angles elongate, acuminate, a little convergent at apex with a carina well distinct and directed inside; punctation uniform on whole surface; punctures suboval, vaguely umbilicate, nearly contigous. Scutellum tongue-shaped, flat, densely punctate. Elytra slightly narrower than pronotum across hind angles, 2.6-2.7 times longer than the latter; sides regularly and notably narrowing from base to apex, the latter truncate; striae well marked and punctured; interstriae flat, roughly punctured. Prosternai process scarcely emarginate at apex. Male genitalia as in Fig. 27 (length mm 1.5). Size. Length 11.7-13 (holotype) mm; width: 3-3.1 (holotype) mm. Female unknown. Etymology - This species id dedicated to one of its collectors, the lepidopterist Mr. LÁSZLÓ PEREGOVITS (HNHM), studying biogeography of Eastern Asia, insect conservation and population biology of insects. Comparative remarks - The new species is similar to Mulsanteus junior (CANDÈZE, 1873) from Japan because of the general shape and size, but can be separated by the sublamellate antennomeres and truncate apex of elytra.