Anthaxia (Melanthaxia) lencinai, Arnáiz-Ruiz, Lucía & Bercedo-Páramo, Pablo, 2003

Arnáiz-Ruiz, Lucía & Bercedo-Páramo, Pablo, 2003, Two new species of Anthaxia Eschscholtz, 1829 from Spain (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), Zootaxa 267, pp. 1-7 : 4-6

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.157110

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6276857

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F1452D-AE1D-7453-FEA1-4F927619F9A6

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Anthaxia (Melanthaxia) lencinai
status

sp. nov.

Anthaxia (Melanthaxia) lencinai View in CoL sp. n.

Description of the holotype

Length 3,8 mm.; moderately convex, elongate, parallel­sided; entire body with shining black coloration. Head: frons, in dorsal view, slightly convex, somewhat depressed in the middle; clypeus slender, medially emarginate; clypeus­frontal suture concave; vertex wide, approximately 2,0 times as wide as width of one eye; internal margins of eyes slightly converging dorsally; head sculpture consisting of irregular polygonal cells with very fine central grains; frons with very short, sparse white pubescence, clypeus and clypeus­frontal suture with semierect, sparse white setae of variable length; antenna expanded from antennomere 4. Pronotum: convex, transverse, 1,6 times as wide as long; maximum width at anterior third; anterior margin feebly bisinuate, arcuately projecting, posterior margin slightly bisinuate; lateral carina only defined at basal third; two irregular, shallow, central depressions; posterior half with distinct longitudinal median groove; lateral margins almost regularly rounded in the anterior third then regularly narrowed to obtuse posterior angles; pronotal sculpture consisting of irregular, well­defined polygonal cells with poorly developed central grains; entire pronotum with very short, barely visible, white pubescence. Scutellum: subtriangular, slightly wider than longer, fine and densely microsculptured. Elytra: convex; 1,6 times as long as wide at humeri, there as wide as maximum width of pronotum; humeral swellings and basal depressions well­marked; elytra surface irregular, microsculptured with homogenous grainy sculpture and very short white, barely visible pubescence; elytral apices feebly serrate and separately rounded; epipleuron extending to sutural apex. Whole ventral surface of body microsculptured, with short whitish, regularly distributed recumbent pubescence; sculpture of prosternal process distinctly more rugose than that on abdomen; meso­ and metatrochanters rounded; metasternum with two grooves, one longitudinal, median groove and the other transverse, semicircular groove; apical portion of ventrite 5 concave with incurved and feeble serrate margins, apex regularly rounded, depressed. Apex of metatibia unarmed. Aedeagus as in Figure 4 View FIGURES 3 - 4 .

Variation

This is a variable species as are most of its allies. Length: 3,7-4,2 mm.; some specimens with irregular pronotal sides, subquadrangular, slightly marginated before posterior angles; posterior half of pronotum with deep groove, very well marked (usually in females); median pronotal depressions irregularly marked, varies from shallow to deep.

Type specimens

Type locality: Spain, Cuenca province, Puerto de Cabrejas, altitude 1150 m., N 40º 0 6’ W 2º30’, UTM 10x10 Km. 30TWK43.

The male holotype of A. lencinai ( MNCN, catalogue number 9194) bears the following labels and data: [white label]: Aedeagus mounted / [white label]: Pto. de Cabrejas (CU), 13-VII-1996, Lucía Arnáiz leg. / [printed red label]: HOLOTYPUS / Anthaxia (Melanthaxia) lencinai L. Arnáiz & P. Bercedo des. 2003.

Paratypes: 1 male, La Sagra, Granada, 1500 m., VII-1949, Anthaxia (Melanthaxia) cum godeti, S. Bílý det. 0 3, Cobos coll. ( MNCN); 8 ex. (males and females), Moratalla, Sierra de Villafuerte, Murcia, 1650 m., 18-VII-2002, J. L. Lencina leg.; 1 male, Moratalla, Sierra de Taibilla, Murcia, 1800 m., 25-VII-2002, Lencina & Muñoz leg.; 1 male, Moratalla, Puerto Alto Revolcadores, Murcia, 1500 m., 24-VI-2002, J. L. Lencina leg.; 1 ex., Paterna del Madera, Río de los Endrinales, Albacete, 1100 m., 7­VII­2002, Lencina & Ortuño leg.; 3 males, Huéscar, Barranco de los Pastores, Sierra Guillimona, Granada, 1400 m., 4­VIII­1986, J. L. Lencina leg.; 5 ex., Puerto de Cabrejas, Cuenca, 1150 m., 8­VII­ 1995 & 13­VII­1996, Lucía Arnáiz leg.

All of these specimens (most of them a little deteriorated, tarsomeres and antennae lost) are provided with a printed red label bearing following data: PARATYPUS / Anthaxia (Melanthaxia) lencinai L. Arnáiz & P. Bercedo des. 2003. The paratypes are deposited in the following collections: 4 specimens in collection of MNCN (type’s catalogue number 9194), 2 specimens in collection of S. Bílý ( NMPC), 4 specimens in collection of J. L. Lencina (Jumilla, Murcia, Spain), 2 specimens in collection of C. L. Bellamy ( CLBC, Sacramento, California, USA) and the remainder of the specimens in collection of P. Bercedo­ L. Arnáiz (Vegas del Condado, León, Spain).

Differential diagnosis

Anthaxia (Melanthaxia) lencinai sp. n. ( Fig. 3 View FIGURES 3 - 4 [Habitus], Fig. 4 View FIGURES 3 - 4 [Aedeagus]) is very closely related to A. godeti from which it can be distinguished by characters given in the table.

Character A. (M.) godeti Gory & Laporte A. (M.) lencinai sp. n.

Antennae Widely expanded from antennomere 4 Less expanded Etymology

This species is named after our friend and enthusiastic entomologist José Luis Lencina Gutiérrez who collected most of the type material.

MNCN

Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales

NMPC

National Museum Prague

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Buprestidae

Genus

Anthaxia

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