O. Merkl szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 67. (Budapest, 2006)

FOLIA ENTOMOLOGICA HUNGARICA ROVARTANI KÖZLEMÉNYEK Volume 67 2006 pp. 19-36. New beetle species in the Hungarian fauna (Coleoptera) O. MERKL Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum H-J

088 Budapest, Baross u. 13, Hungary. E-mail: merkl@zoo.zoo.nhmus.hu Abstracts - Eighty-nine species of Coleoptera belonging to 26 families are recorded from Hungary for the first time. With 8 figures. Key words - Anobiidae, Anthicidae, Bostrichidae, Buprestidae, Ciidae, Clambidae, Coccinellidae, Cryptophagidac, Dermestidae, Dytiscidae, Elateridae, Eucnemidae, Gcorissidae, Laemophloeidae, Leiodidae, Limnichidae, Melandryidae, Monotomidae, Mycetophagidae, Phlocostichidae, Ptiliidae, Silvanidac, Staphylinidae, Tenebrionidae, Thanerocleridae, Trixagidae, Hungary, new records. INTRODUCTION Updated national checklists of various insect groups have been recently published in Hungary, e.g. Diptera (PAPP 2001), Microlepidoptera (SZABÓKY et al. 2002) and Macrolepidoptera (VARGA el al. 2004). A similar checklist of Coleoptera, the first after KUTHY's (1897) volume in the Fauna Regni Hungáriáé, is under preparation by the author of this paper. Any good checklist should be based upon species with published records, and the most reliable records are those that imply whereabouts of specimens in order that determination can be checked in the future. The present paper lists first Hungarian records of 89 beetle species, which will be incorporated in the checklist of Coleoptera. The families and the species are arranged in alphabetical order. The localities - also listed in alphabetical order - are grouped according to the Hungarian counties (county = megye, is abbreviated by m.), including the metropolitan area of Budapest. Translation of Hungarian words written on the specimen labels and com-