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)

Glyphonyx laszlorum sp. n. (Figs 35-37) Material examined - Holotype male: Taiwan: Taipei Hsien, Haeng-Lu Dyi, 450 m, hilltop, swept 13- IV. 2003, L. PAPP (HNHM). - 6 Paratypes (2 males, 4 females): (2) same data as holotype; (4) Taipei County, Guanyinshan, 500 m, swept, 14-21. IV.2002, GY. FÁBIÁN & O. MERKL (CPG, CSV). Description - Male. Moderately shiny; entirely black with antennae, legs and sometimes the angles of anterior margin of pronotum ferruginous; covered with dense, recumbent, yellowish vestiture (Fig. 35). Frons convex with anterior margin V-shaped touching the inferior part of clypeus; punctures umbilicate, with shortest and shiny interspaces. Antennae not reaching for about one antennomere the apices of posterior angles of pronotum, moderately serrate from fourth antennomeres; second and third antennomeres cylindrical, the second longer than broad, a little longer than third and of a larger diameter; second and third, taken together notably longer than fourth; fourth to tenth triangular, slightly longer than wide; last antennomere longer than penultimate, ellipsoidal. Pronotum 1.15 times broader than long, widest at hind angles; very convex at central part of disk, rather depressed along the sides, with a vestige of midlongitudinal furrow in the basal declivity; sides subparallel to slightly sinuate from base to anterior third where rather abruptly narrowing anteriorly; hind angles acuminate, not divergent; carina long, departing from apex and running straight to anterior third of pronotum, well apparent in a dorsal view; lateral margin complete, curved and reaching the inferior part of eyes; punctures on the disk deep, more or less umbilicate with shortest interspaces, gradually coarser and at lateral extremity nearly contiguous. Scutellum tongue-shaped, flat, finely punctured. Elytra as wide as pronotum at base, 2.6 times longer than the latter; widest at middle; striae well marked and punctured; interstriae with rough surface. Fourth tarsomere deeply furrowed, as long as broad. Propleura with narrow alutaceous area at lateral-posterior sides. Male genitalia as in Fig. 36 (0.67 mm). Female. Very similar to male with a little shorter antennae. Bursa copulatrix sclerified as in Fig. 37. Size. Length 4.2-4.3 mm; width 1.2-1.25 mm. Etymology - This species is dedicated to Mr. GYULA MANFRÉD LÁSZLÓ (Biocont Hungary, Budapest, Hungary), lepidopterist, studying taxonomy of Geometridae anci Thyatiridae, and his wife GABRIELLA LÁSZLÓ, graphic artist, collectors of a number of Taiwanese beetles. Comparative remarks - For the general outline, colour, very long carina of hind angles of pronotum and male genitalia, the new species is allied to Glyphonyx parallelaris KlSHII, 1991. It can be separated by the slightly shorter antennae, subparallel sides of pronotum behind the middle and not divergent posterior angles.