Paracuris Obenberger, 1923

Bily, Svatopluk, 2013, A study on the Neotropical Anthaxiini (Coleoptera, Buprestidae, Buprestinae), ZooKeys 304, pp. 17-47 : 41-42

Paracuris Obenberger, 1923 Figs 17, 18

Type species.

Curis hemiptera Burmeister, 1872 by original designation.

This monotypic genus lacks taxonomic problems and has very often been treated as a subgenus of Anthaxia , e.g. Bellamy (1985, 2003), Bílý (1997), Cobos (1956, 1986). Bílý (2004) upgraded it to genus which was was accepted by Bellamy (2008).

The type species, Curis hemiptera , was synonymized with Anthaxia bimaculata Gory, 1841 by Berg (1884) and Cobos (1956) described the subspecies Anthaxia (Paracuris) bimaculata litigiosa Cobos, 1956 from Argentina (Rio Colorado, Rio Negro).

Note.

The nominotypical subspecies possesses rather strong sexual dichromatism ( Figs 17, 18 ). The female is rather similar to Paracuris bimaculata litigiosa and only the different form of the male genitalia (Figs 45-48 in Cobos, 1956) justifies treating the subspecies litigiosa as a valid taxon.

Figures

Figures 13 - 18. 13 Bilyaxia (Tomasia) maculicollis (Kerremans, 1887), female, 4.6 mm (Argentina, Entre Rios) 14 Bilyaxia (Tomasia) lata (Kerremans, 1903), male, 5.0 mm (Brasil, Rio Grande do Sul) 15 Bilyaxia (Tomasia) cinctipennis (Kerremans, 1913), male holotype, 7.0 mm 16 Brasilaxia costifera (Obenberger, 1913), male, 6.3 mm (Brasil, Curityba) 17 Paracuris bimaculata bimaculata (Gory, 1841), male, 7.1 mm (Argentina, Catamarca) 18 the same, female, 7.2 mm (Brasil, Bermejo).