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Click beetles of Taiwan collected by the expeditions of HNHM (Coleoptera: Elateridae) 63complete exposed clypeal space, are sufficient to erect a new genus of the tribeAmpedini.Etymology – The new genus is dedicated to Dr. OTTÓ MERKL, curator of ColeopteraCollection of the HNHM, who kindly sent us all material on which this paper is based.Merklelater anstinei sp. n.(Figs 11–15)Material examined – Holotype male: Taiwan: Taipei County, Neitong Forest RecreationArea, 6 km S of Wulai, at light, 7.IV.2002, GY.FÁBIÁN &O.MERKL (HNHM). – 1 Paratype female:Nantou County, Kao-Leng Dyi, 18 km W of Wushe, 24°4.561’N, 121°8.046’E, 1945 m,swept from vegetation, 18–19.IV.2002, D. A. ANSTINE, GY. FÁBIÁN & O. MERKL (HNHM).Description – Male (Fig. 11). Moderately shiny; entirely yellow-ferruginous, except for antennaeblackish from third antennomere. Covered with dense, long, recumbent, fulvous vestiture.Frons convex with anterior margin slightly thickened, arcuate, in the middle touching upwardsof clypeus; punctures coarse, umbilicate, contiguos. Antennae (Fig. 14) exceeding by aboutthree antennomeres the apices of hind angles of pronotum; second antennomere globose; thirdconical, longer than second and shorter than fourth, sculptured as the latter; second and third,taken together a little longer than fourth; fourth to sixth triangular, a little longer than wide;seventh to tenth slender, about twice longer than wide; last antennomere a little longer thanpenultimate, subellipsoidal. Pronotum 1.35 times broader than long, widest at hind angles; convex,abruptly sloping at base, without midlongitudinal furrow; sides subparallel in the posteriorhalf, gradually narrowing anteriorly from middle; hind angles long, not divergent, with a veryshort and feeble carina directed inside; punctation coarse and dense, on the disk with subovate,umbilicate, very close punctures, giving the surface a feeble substriate appearance more evidentat sides with punctures strongly umbilicate and contiguous. Scutellum tongue-shaped, flat,densely punctured. Elytra a little narrower than base of pronotum, three times longer than thelatter; sides subparallel for about two third of its length; striae well marked and deeply punctured;interstriae flat with rough surface. First tarsomere of posterior tarsi very elongate, as long asthree following taken together (Fig. 13). Male genitalia as in Fig. 15 (length 0.775 mm). Female(Fig. 12). Very similar to male, but with shorter and less serrate antennae, exceeding only by twoantennomeres the apices of posterior angles of pronotum; the third antennomere is reddish asthe first two and only subconical. Size. Length 5.3 (male)–5.9; width 1.56 (male)–1.68 mm.Etymology – This species is dedicated to the entomologist Dr. DANIEL A. ANSTINE(Morrison Museum of Natural Science, Taichung, Taiwan), who was very helpful when theHungarian collectors worked in the mountains of Nantou County, Taiwan.Annls hist.-nat. Mus. natn. hung. 99, 2007