O. Merkl szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 66. (Budapest, 2005)

The species is unmistakable among the Hungarian malachiids (Figs 1-2). In KASZAB'

s (1955/?) key it would run to Apalochrus femoralis ERTCHSON, 1840 (Apalochrus ERICHSON, 1840 is a senior objective synonym of Paratinus ABEILLE DE PERRIN, 1891, see MAYOR 2003), which has black pronotum and unicoloured green or bluish elytra. Protapalochrus flavolimbatus has reddish pronotum and a distinctive yellow and green pattern of the elytra. Moreover, the second fore tarsomere of the male in the genus Protapalochrus EVERS, 1987 possesses a comb. Material - Hungary, Bács-Kiskun county: Akasztó, Égési-dűlő, swept, 27. V. 2001, leg. D. SZALÓKI (2 males, one female); same locality and collector, 2. V. 2002 (one male); Akasztó, Sütő, swept, 3. VII. 2002, leg. D. SZALÓKI (4 males, 5 females). UTM code: CS 67. Most of the specimens are deposited in the collection of D. SZALÓKI, and one pair from the last series is in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest. Figs 1-2. Protapalochrus flavolimbatus (MULSANT et REY, 1853), 1 = male, 2 = female