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 kuni sp. n. (Figs 33-34) Material examined - Holotype female: Taiwan: Taipei County, Pi Hu, 24°54'02"N, 121°45'27"E, 410 m, 22.VI.1997, L. HERCZIG & L. RONKAY (HNHM). Description - Female. Moderately shiny; head, sides of scutellum and elytra blackish; pronotum lighter, dark brown with fuscous shadings except for basal sloping and hind angles reddish; antennae and legs ferruginous. Covered with dense, recumbent, yellow-fulvous vestiture (Fig. 33). Frons convex, flat only at the anterior extremity; anterior margin V-shaped, touching the inferior part of clypeus; punctures coarse, deep, umbilicate, with shortest shiny interspaces. Antennae not reaching for about one antennomere the apices of hind angles of pronotum, feebly serrate from fourth antennomere; second and third antennomeres cylindrical, subequal in length, taken together notably longer than fourth; fourth to tenth triangular, a little longer than broad; last antennomere slightly longer than penultimate, ellipsoidal. Pronotum quadrangular, just wider than long, widest at posterior angles, very convex, abruptly sloping at sides and base; from basal declivity to middle with a narrow, shallow, midlongitudinal, smooth line; sides subparallel, suddenly narrowing near apical extremity; hind angles long, acute, not diverging; carina straight departing from apex and reaching about the middle of pronotum; punctures on the disk deep, slightly umbilicate with shortest and shiny interspaces, gradually larger, denser, strongly umbilicate to the sides, contiguous at lateral extremity. Scutellum tongue-shaped, flat, finely punctured. Elytra as broad as pronotum at base, short, only 2.4 times longer than pronotum, convex; sides from base to apex gently and regularly tapering; striae deeply punctured; interstriae flat, with rough surface. Fourth tarsomere deeply furrowed, as long as wide. Propleura with narrow alutaceous area at lateral-posterior sides. Bursa copulatrix sclerified as in Fig. 34. Size. Length 7.8 mm; width 2.3 mm. Male unknown. Etymology - This species is dedicated to Dr. ANDRÁS KUN (HNHM), lepidopterist, studying taxonomy of Ethmiidae, and collector of a number of Taiwanese (and other East Asian) beetles. Comparative remarks - This species with its very short elytra compared to pronotum and the general outline is similar to Glyphonyx formosanus OHIRA, 1972, but its antennae are shorter and the basal colour of pronotum is reddish. Glyphonyx kintaroui KlSHII, 1991 (Figs 38-39) Glyphonyx kintaroui KlSHII, 1991b: 24; SUZUKI 1999: 214. Material examined - 2 females. Taiwan: Kaohsiung County, nr. Liukuei, Shanping LTER site, along a creek, 1-2.IV.2003, L. PAPP & M. FÖLDVÁRI.