Anthaxia (Anthaxia) nitiduliformis Bílý, 1995

Bílý, Svatopluk, 2015, Two new species of the genus Anthaxia (Anthaxia Eschscholtz 1829) from China, and notes on the related species (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Anthaxiini), Zootaxa 3964 (4), pp. 482-488 : 484

Anthaxia (Anthaxia) nitiduliformis Bílý, 1995

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Anthaxia (Anthaxia) nitiduliformis Bílý, 1995: 46 . Type locality: China, Sichuan, Nanping, Abazhou, 2000 m, 33o15′N 104o15′E (holotype deposited in NMPC).

Anthaxia (Anthaxia) nitiduliformis: Bílý, 1997: 30 , 97 (catalogue); 2006: 372 (catalogue); Bellamy, 2008: 1439 (catalogue).

This species was described for a single female (Bílý, 1995) from Sichuan (Nanping); since this time I have studied further specimens from the following localities: SICHUAN: env. Nanping, 1700 m, 5.vii.2001, Gorodinski leg. (1 male, NMPC); Nanping, Juizhagou, 10.–17.vi.2014, E. Kučera leg. (3 males, 2 females, EKCS); the same but: 12.– 17.vi.2000, E. Kučera leg. (1 male, 1 female, NMPC); HEBEI: Xingtai, Taihang Mts., Neiquin, Xinjiayu, 1300 m, 18.v.2002, M. Knížek leg. (1 male, 1 female, NMPC); SHANXI: Lüliangshou, road Fangshan–Jiaocheng, 1000 m, Hengjian env., 9.vi.2000, Z. Jindra leg. (2 males, NMPC).

The male differs from the female by the smaller and more slender body, narrower vertex (2.0–2.1 times as wide as width of eye in female and 0.9 times in male), finely serrate inner margin of meso- and metatibiae and by the entirely green pronotal margins (with weak golden lustre in female); aedeagus ( Fig. 5 ) with slightly apically enlarged apical half of parameres, median lobe narrow, pointed apically with very fine, almost indistinct lateral serration.

Bionomy. One specimen from Nanping, Juizhagou was found in a pupal chamber under the bark of the dead branch of Pinus sp. ( Pinaceae ) near old emergence holes of the same species.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 5. 1 — Anthaxia (A.) kmoniceki sp. nov., holotype, 5.5 mm; 2 — the same, allotype, 6.1 mm; 3 — Anthaxia (A.) nitiduliformis Bílý, 1995, 4.8 mm (Sichuan, Nanping); 4 — A. (A.) kmoniceki sp. nov., aedeagus, paratype, 1.7 mm.; 5 — A. (A.) nitiduliformis, aedeagus, 1.5 mm (Sichuan, Nanping, Abazhou).