On some Palaearctic click beetles deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, 2 (Coleoptera: Elateridae) * Author Németh, T. Author Platia, G. text Zootaxa 2014 3841 4 451 490 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.3841.4.1 90099cdf-7676-4f05-b341-abf78046626b 1175-5326 229391 A0742D14-7A39-485E-B665-5C3A7F194D5E Cardiophorus pseudofebriens Buysson, 1912 Cardiophorus varius Cate, Platia et Schimmel, 2002 : 50 ( syn. n .). Material examined. 1 specimen , female. Iran : “( Pers .): Ziarat, coll. M. von Pfaundler (det. von Hayek, 1963)“. ( HNHM ). Remarks. The systematic status of this enigmatic species was discussed by Chassain (1979) in his introduction to the first part of the Elateridae fauna of Saudi Arabia . The species was eventually assigned to the genus Cardiophorus on the basis of a paralectotype still with the claws (designated by von Hayek) and preserved in the Museum of Paris. The presence of a specimen identified by C. M. F. von Hayek in the HNHM gives an opportunity to establish the synonymy with C. varius Cate, Platia et Schimmel, 2002 . C. pseudofebriens was described from “Arabian Pétrée”, a locality not easy to define and that probably refers to the north of Sinai Peninsula ( Egypt ). Based on this new synonymy the distribution of the species seems to be more extensive: Egypt (Sinai), Israel , Jordan , Turkey , Iran . Note. Akhter et al. 2011 under Cardiophorus varius Cate, Platia & Schimmel, 2002 recorded this species also from Pakistan . We have some doubts on the true identity of this material.