Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 93. (Budapest 2001)

Kirejtshuk, A. G.: Notes on the systematics of the African Nitidulidae (Coleoptera)

Meligethes (Chromogethes) profundopunctatus sp. n. (Figs 95-99) Specimens examined - Republic of South Africa: holotype (TMP) and 2 paratypes (TMP, ZISP) - "2 km W Iron Crown, Wolkberge, Haencrtsburg dist., 7 000 ft, 111.1970, O. & L. Prozesky"; other paratypes: 2 (TMP, ZISP) - "Ironcrown, Wolkberg, nr. Haencrtsburg, 17-26.XI.1970, L. Prozesky & A. Strydom"; 1 (HNHM) - "Transvaal, Bervliet Gorge, 15 km E from Sabie, netted, 5.XI.1980, S. Endrődi". Description of male (holotype) - Length 2.6, width 1.2, height 0.7 mm. Moderately convex dorsally and ventrally; dorsum dark blue, underside almost unicoloured black, appendages dark brown; dorsum and underside with a moderate shine; dorsum with rather dense, not long and moderately conspicuous yellowish grey hairs, more than twice as long as distance between their insertions; underside with somewhat thinner and longer pubescence. Head and pronotum with distinct (partly slightly elongate) punctures, with diameter almost 1.5-2.0 times as big as that of eye facets, interspaces between them 1/3-1/2 puncture diameter, with sparse smoothed microreticulation. Elytra with much denser and more elongate punctures than those on head and pronotum, but very narrower interspaces between them entirely smooth. Metasternum nearly as punctured as head and pronotum, but punctures somewhat denser and interspaces between them smooth. Middle of prosternum and prosternai process with distinct dense punctures, slightly larger than eye facets, with interspaces between them markedly narrower than a puncture diameter and smoothed. Pygidium, sides of prosternum and ventrites with very small, shallow and dense not quite distinct punctures, narrow interspaces between them with dense and contrasting cellular microrcticulation (almost microgranulose on sclcrites of last abdominal segment). Head 1 and 1/3 as long as distance between eyes, its anterior edge looking like wide smooth stripe, widely and very shallowly emarginate and with angular lateral corners. Antennae somewhat shorter than head width, with club about 1 and 1/2 as long as wide, comprising about 2/7 of total antennái length, antennomeres 3 and 2 subequal in length, and each of them about twice longer than antennomere 4. Pronotum widest at base, moderately convex, with convex anterior and subtruncate posterior edges, widely rounded anterior and posterior corners, widely arcuate sides, gently sloping to sides, which are more widely explanale than width of scape. Elytra 1 and 1/5 as long as combined width (about twice as long as pronotum), moderately steeply sloping at extremely narrowly explanate sides, slightly suboblique at apex, but at suture nearly truncate and forming a very small suturai corner, without traced suturai lines. Pygidium rounded at apex. Mentum subpentagonal and narrowed from base, about 3 times as wide as long. Last labial palpomere subcylindrical and more than twice as long as wide. Prosternai process somewhat convex along median part, arcuatcly widened before subangular posterior edge, widest part of it somewhat wider than antennái club, extremely narrowly bordered at sides and apex. Distance between mesocoxae about twice and that between metacoxae nearly 4 times as great as that between procoxae. Metasternum widely and weakly depressed in posterior half. Protibia subtriangular, about as wide as antennái club and moderately crenulate along outer edge; meso- and metatibiae subtriangular, more than 1.5 times as wide as antennái club; outer edge of meso- and metatibiae with dense row of moderately long and stout setae. Femora of usual shape, about twice as wide as corresponding tibiae. Protarsus about half as wide as antenna! club, but mesoand metatarsi about a fourth as wide as corresponding tibiae, claws simple. Aedeagus moderately sclerotized.