identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
15746933C14E56EE95E7D9D66037FEA5.text	15746933C14E56EE95E7D9D66037FEA5.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Aphanisticus fencli Kalashian & Kubáň 2026	<div><p>Aphanisticus fencli sp. nov.</p><p>Figs 1, 9</p><p>Type material.</p><p>Holotype. Republic Of South Africa • ♂, [KwaZulu-] NATAL prov.; <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=29.733334&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-29.8" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 29.733334/lat -29.8)">BULWER</a>; 29°48'S, 29°44'E; 11. XI. 2001; Dr R. Fencl leg.; NMPC (Fig. 1) . Paratypes. • 10 ♂♂; 8 ♀♀; 5 ex. sex indef., same data as for holotype; NMPC; MKCY; ZIN .</p><p>Description.</p><p>Body (Fig. 1) flattened, elongate, 3.05–3.25 times as long as wide, black, with indistinct bluish lustre; elytra blue; surface microreticulated, very delicately on head, pronotum, and most of ventral surface; in elytra and propleurae rather distinct, surface with silky lustre. Length 3.95–5.95 mm (holotype 4.5 mm), width 1.7–1.95 mm (holotype 1.4 mm).</p><p>Head rather narrow, with sides somewhat irregularly, arcuately converging toward front. Eyes rather small, slightly convex, directed forward. Oculofrontal board rounded. Frons very slightly widening towards back (to above in frontal view), with deep, doubled postclypeal fovea. Frontovertex shallowly concave; concavity rounded posteriorly, not reaching as far as anterior margin of pronotum. Frons with a few, nearly indistinct traces of small punctures; vertex with irregular, moderately dense, rather large, flat punctures. Antennae serrate from antennomere 8; antennomeres 1 and 2 large, swollen; antennomeres 3–7 rather long and thin, very finely enlarged distally; antennomere 8 nearly equilateral, antennomere 9–11 transversal.</p><p>Pronotum 1.35–1.5 times as wide as long, somewhat shield-shaped, widest between anterior and posterior 1 / 3; sides in anterior 1 / 4 nearly regularly arcuate, middle 1 / 3 nearly straight, subparallel, posteriorly sinuate before nearly straight rounded posterior angles; anterior margin slightly bisinuate, posterior margin bisinuate with moderately wide, rounded medial lobe. Lateral margins with traces of very indistinct serration, fringed with continuous, thin groove. Pronotum with shallow elevations: wide, triangular elevation along anterior margin; large transversal elevations near anterior 1 / 3 and along basal margin, and a couple of longitudinal elevations laterally along basal 1 / 2. Surface with large, rather dense, flattened, irregular punctures, somewhat smoothed and becoming smaller on elevated portions of disc.</p><p>Scutellum very small, nearly equilaterally triangular.</p><p>Elytra 2.2–2.4 times as long as wide, slightly widening just behind humery, then sides sinuate approximately to posterior 2 / 5, where elytra become widest, then finely, convexly narrowed to slightly separately irregularly rounded, very finely serrate apices; sides fringed with thin, distinct groove posteriorly reaching approximately 1 / 6 of elytral length. Elytra flattened, with distinctly elevated suture and 5 th interval; surface between these elevations with thin, in places shortly interrupted, longitudinal striae not reaching elytral apex, laterally of 5 th interval with rather tangled, thin, longitudinal hyphens in places fused into short striae; apically elytra with few rather rough irregular punctures and transversal wrinkles.</p><p>Ventral surface. Prosternal process with a few flat, irregular punctures; proplevrae with single, nearly indistinct traces of small punctures; rest of ventral surface with dense, large, flat, round punctures slightly smoothed towards back.</p><p>Aedeagus as shown in Fig. 9.</p><p>Sexual dimorphism very slightly pronounced; anal ventrite in male shortly nearly straightly cut, in female nearly regularly rounded distally.</p><p>Differential diagnosis.</p><p>See key below.</p><p>Type locality.</p><p>The Republic of South Africa, Natal Province, Bulwer, 29°48'S, 29°44'E.</p><p>Distribution.</p><p>The Republic of South Africa; so far known from type locality only.</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The new species is named after the blessed memory of JUDr Rudolf Fencl, Czech judge and amateur entomologist, who collected the type series. He was founder and first head of the West Czechian branch of the Czech Entomological Society.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/15746933C14E56EE95E7D9D66037FEA5	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Kalashian, Mark Yu.;Kubáň, Vítězslav	Kalashian, Mark Yu., Kubáň, Vítězslav (2026): Three new species of buprestid genus Aphanisticus Latreille, 1810 from Southern African countries (Coleoptera, Buprestidae), with nomenclatural and taxonomic notes. ZooKeys 1287: 201-211, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1287.200030
78C410123FB55FEDBA75E1E11F129695.text	78C410123FB55FEDBA75E1E11F129695.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Aphanisticus franki Kalashian & Kubáň 2026	<div><p>Aphanisticus franki sp. nov.</p><p>Figs 5, 11</p><p>Type material.</p><p>Holotype. Botswana • ♂, West Okawango South Delta; 17. XI. 2000; Lgt. P. Macháček.; NMPC (Fig. 5) . Paratypes. • 8 ♂♂; 6 ♀♀; 5 ex. sex indef., same data as for holotype; NMPC; DFPC; MKCY .</p><p>Description.</p><p>Body (Fig. 5) convex, subcylindrical, elongate, 3.55–3.75 times as long as wide, olivaceous-green, in places with indistinct bronzy reflection; surface distinctly microreticulated, with silky lustre; length 4.7–5.5 mm (holotype 4.8 mm), width 1.3–1.5 mm (holotype 1.3 mm).</p><p>Head large, subequal in width to anterior margin of pronotum, with sides widely, arcuately, slightly converging towards front. Eyes large, convex, well visible from above. Oculofrontal board shortly rounded, forming obtuse keel. Frons very slightly, sinuately, distinctly narrowed towards back, with deep, doubled postclypeal fovea and triangular depression behind them reaching approximately level of anterior 1 / 3 of eyes. Frontovertex concave; concavity rounded posteriorly, not reaching as far as anterior margin of pronotum. Anterior surface of frons with a few, nearly indistinct traces of small punctures; posterior concavity and vertex with moderately dense, small, rather deep, irregular punctures. Antennae serrate from antennomere 8; antennomeres 1 and 2 large, swollen; antennomeres 3–7 short; antennomeres 3–5 very finely and 6–7 distinctly enlarged distally; antennomeres 8–11 strongly transversal.</p><p>Pronotum 1.15–1.20 times as wide as long, widest before middle, sides anteriorly slightly arcuately convergent toward anterior angles, posteriorly very slightly and nearly straight convergent toward approximately straight posterior angles; anterior margin very slightly bisinuate and posterior margin bisinuate with broad, rounded medial lobe. Lateral margins very indistinctly, irregularly serrate, fringed with indistinct, thin grove. Pronotum nearly regularly convex; disc with two slightly separated transversal elevations near anterior 1 / 3 and in front of basal margin. Punctuation of pronotum similar to that of vertex.</p><p>Scutellum small, transversely triangular.</p><p>Elytra 2.5–2.65 times as long as wide, slightly widening just behind humery, then sides feebly sinuate approximately to posterior 2 / 5, where elytra become widest, then finely convexly, slightly sinuately narrowed distally; each elytron apically prolonged to distinct lateral tooth. Elytra convex, slightly depressed along posterior half of suture. Surface with rows of small rounded punctures smoothed posteriorly, and with few thin irregular wrinkles in posterior 2 / 5–1 / 3.</p><p>Ventral surface. Prosternal process very feebly depressed medially, without punctuation, the rest of surface with rather dense, irregular punctures, large and rough anteriorly, on sternum, and base of abdomen; punctures smoothed and become smaller toward back and hardy visible in anal ventrite.</p><p>Aedeagus as shown in Fig. 11.</p><p>Sexual dimorphism slightly pronounced; anal ventrite widely cut distally in both sexes: in male with small medial incision, in female without incision.</p><p>Differential diagnosis.</p><p>This peculiar species shows somewhat superficial resemblance to A. mitratus (Chevrolat, 1838) (Fig. 7) from Madagascar, which can be easily distinguished by its bronzy-black body, more robust than in A. franki sp. nov.; A. mitratus is approximately 3.2 times as long as wide; the pronotum is 1.3 times as wide as long, and the elytra 2.35 is times as long as wide. Additionally, A. mitratus is characterised by having less distinct microreticulation than in the new species; the sides of the pronotum are widely arcuate in the anterior 2 / 3 and distinctly sinuate before sharp posterior angles, and elevations on the disc are more pronounced; the apical teeth of the elytra are much shorter than in the new species.</p><p>Type locality.</p><p>Botswana, south delta of the West Okawango River.</p><p>Distribution.</p><p>Botswana, so far known from the type locality only.</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The new species is dedicated, with our gratitude and respect, to well-known specialist on Buprestidae, David Frank, who provided us with the material on the new species.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/78C410123FB55FEDBA75E1E11F129695	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Kalashian, Mark Yu.;Kubáň, Vítězslav	Kalashian, Mark Yu., Kubáň, Vítězslav (2026): Three new species of buprestid genus Aphanisticus Latreille, 1810 from Southern African countries (Coleoptera, Buprestidae), with nomenclatural and taxonomic notes. ZooKeys 1287: 201-211, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1287.200030
06F299D348A3561B88F7E81D1035DD67.text	06F299D348A3561B88F7E81D1035DD67.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Aphanisticus gebhardti Obenberger 1924	<div><p>Aphanisticus gebhardti Obenberger, 1924</p><p>Fig. 3</p><p>Aphanisticus gebhardti Obenberger, 1924: 158 .</p><p>Type material.</p><p>Lectotype. Republic Of South Africa • ♀, Kapstadt (p); Nov. 1922 (h) / TYPUS (p, red paper) / auf Watsonia rosea; fressend (h) / auf Watsonia rosea (h) / Aphanisticus gebhardti m.; Type (h); Det. Dr. Obenberger (p); NMPC .</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Republic Of South Africa • 1 ex., Tafelberg; Capstadt (h) / 14. X. 23 (h); Dr. Brauns (p) / Aphanisticus gebhardti (h, pencil script) / Cum TYPO comparavit; dr. v. Gebhardt (p, yellow paper) / Typus (p, red paper) / question mark (p, red paper) / coll. THERY (p); MNHN • 1 ex.: Tafelberg; Capstadt (h) / auf Watsonia rosea (h) / 14. X. 23 (h); Dr. Brauns (p) / Aphanisticus (p); gebhardti Obb. (h); Thery det (p) / exemplaire dessine (p) / Collect. THERY (p) / red square / Compar. a paratype; par A. Thery (h); MNHN .</p><p>Type locality.</p><p>The Republic of South Africa, Cape town.</p><p>Distribution.</p><p>So far, known from the type locality only.</p><p>Biological notes.</p><p>According to the description and label data, this species was collected in November on Watsonia rosea KerGawl. (currently synonym of Watsonia borbonica (Pourr.) Goldblatt).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/06F299D348A3561B88F7E81D1035DD67	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Kalashian, Mark Yu.;Kubáň, Vítězslav	Kalashian, Mark Yu., Kubáň, Vítězslav (2026): Three new species of buprestid genus Aphanisticus Latreille, 1810 from Southern African countries (Coleoptera, Buprestidae), with nomenclatural and taxonomic notes. ZooKeys 1287: 201-211, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1287.200030
3ABA047B016F5B8E8A660B3CF2E25D6C.text	3ABA047B016F5B8E8A660B3CF2E25D6C.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Aphanisticus lineolatus Obenberger 1928	<div><p>Aphanisticus lineolatus Obenberger, 1928</p><p>Figs 2, 10</p><p>Aphanisticus lineolatus Obenberger, 1928: 78 .</p><p>Aphanisticus semicoeruleus Théry, 1930: 172, syn. nov.</p><p>Type material.</p><p>Aphanisticus lineolatus . Lectotype. Republic Of South Africa • ♂ P. B. Spei; Transvaal (h) / Fry Coll. 1905.100 (p) / TYPUS (p, red paper) / Aphanisticus; lineolatus m.; Type (h); Det Dr. Obenberger (p); NMPC (Fig. 4) . Paralectotype. • Sex indef. Cap B. Spei (h) / TYPUS (p, red paper) / TYPE (p, red paper) / Aphanisticus lineolatus m. Type (h); Det Dr. Obenberger (p); MNHN .</p><p>Aphanisticus semicoeruleus . Holotype. Republic Of South Africa • sex indef. P. B. Spei; Transvaal (h) / Fry Coll.; 1905.100 (p) / semicoeruleus Thery (h) TYPE (p, red) / exp. dessine (h) / Aphanisticus; lineolatus m.; Type (h); Det Dr. Obenberger (p) / TYPE (p, red paper) / APPARTIENT AU; BRITISH MUSEUM INALIENABLE (p, red); MNHN, should be transferred to BMNH .</p><p>Type locality.</p><p>The Republic of South Africa, Cape of Good Hope (according to the lectotype label).</p><p>Distribution.</p><p>According to the primary description, the species was found in a few localities of the Republic of South Africa: “ Haec species mihi e locis sequentibus nota est: Transvaal, Ludenburg District (Mus. Capetown), Cap Bonae spei; Ayres; (Coll. Fry in British Museum of Natural History) ” (Obenberger 1928).</p><p>Notes.</p><p>It can be assumed that Théry (1930) described, for unclear reasons, A. semicoeruleus from one of the specimens in the type series of Obenberger’s A. lineolatus . A comparison of the lectotype of A. lineolatus with the holotype of A. semicoeruleus showed their conspecifity. According to the primary description, one additional paralectotype is deposited in SAMC; this specimen was mentioned by Bellamy (2008), but its whereabouts is unknown to us.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3ABA047B016F5B8E8A660B3CF2E25D6C	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Kalashian, Mark Yu.;Kubáň, Vítězslav	Kalashian, Mark Yu., Kubáň, Vítězslav (2026): Three new species of buprestid genus Aphanisticus Latreille, 1810 from Southern African countries (Coleoptera, Buprestidae), with nomenclatural and taxonomic notes. ZooKeys 1287: 201-211, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1287.200030
BEC421C8AC365E1493C359BF26282A4D.text	BEC421C8AC365E1493C359BF26282A4D.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Aphanisticus planatus Thery 1930	<div><p>Aphanisticus planatus Théry, 1930</p><p>Fig. 4</p><p>Aphanisticus planatus Théry, 1930: 184 .</p><p>Type material.</p><p>Holotype. Republic Of South Africa • sex indef., Cap (h) / Cap. B. E. (h); Coll. Van de Pool (p) / Aphanisticus planatus Thery (h); Type (p, red) / Exp. dessine (h) / TYPE (p. red paper); MNHN.</p><p>Type locality.</p><p>The Republic of South Africa, Cape of Good Hope.</p><p>Distribution.</p><p>So far, known from the type locality only.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/BEC421C8AC365E1493C359BF26282A4D	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Kalashian, Mark Yu.;Kubáň, Vítězslav	Kalashian, Mark Yu., Kubáň, Vítězslav (2026): Three new species of buprestid genus Aphanisticus Latreille, 1810 from Southern African countries (Coleoptera, Buprestidae), with nomenclatural and taxonomic notes. ZooKeys 1287: 201-211, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1287.200030
6129D20A833F51C981DC36951361C9C0.text	6129D20A833F51C981DC36951361C9C0.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Aphanisticus snizeki Kalashian & Kubáň 2026	<div><p>Aphanisticus snizeki sp. nov.</p><p>Fig. 6</p><p>Type material.</p><p>Holotype. Zambia • ♀, Kapiri Mposhi; (100–140 km NE); ATB Lodge env.; 15. XII. 2004; M. Snižek, V. Tichý leg.; NMPC (Fig. 3).</p><p>Description.</p><p>Body (Fig. 6) convex, subcylindrical, elongated, 3.6 times as long as wide, dorsally bluish-green with indistinct violet reflection, ventrally black with indistinct bronzy lustre; surface microreticulated; dorsal surface and pronotum with silky lustre; reticulation ventrally smoothed towards back and hardly visible on abdominal ventrites. Length 5.05 mm, width 1.4 mm.</p><p>Head large, slightly narrower than anterior margin of pronotum, with sides irregularly, arcuately, strongly convergent frontwards. Eyes large, directed sideways, moderately convex, visible from above by small portion. Oculofrontal board sharp, keeled. Frons distinctly, somewhat sinuately widening towards back (to above in frontal view), with deep, doubled postclypeal fovea and triangular depression behind them reaching approximately level of anterior 1 / 3 of eyes. Frontovertex deeply concave; concavity posteriorly narrowed, nearly reaching anterior margin of pronotum. Anterior surface of frons nearly glabrous, posterior with concavity, and vertex with small, sparse, irregular punctures. Antennae serrate from antennomere 8. Antennomeres 1 and 2 large, swollen; antennomeres 3–7 moderately long, thin, very finely, distally enlarged; antennomere 8 nearly equilateral; antennomeres 9–11 strongly transversal.</p><p>Pronotum 1.35 times as wide as long, widely cordiform, widest at approximate middle; sides anteriorly nearly regularly arcuate, slightly sinuate before sharp posterior angles; anterior margin very slightly bisinuate; posterior margin bisinuate, with moderately wide, triangular medial lobe. Lateral margins nearly indistinctly, irregularly serrate, fringed with continuous thin groove. Pronotum narrowly flattened along sides, slightly depressed medially of posterior angles; anterior and posterior margins moderately elevated; disc with slightly separated elevations: pair of transversal elevations near anterior 1 / 3 and pair of smaller slightly transverse elevations in front of posterior margin. Surface with sparse, irregular, flat punctures of moderate size.</p><p>Scutellum very small, nearly equilaterally triangular.</p><p>Elytra 2.55 times as long as wide, slightly widening just behind humery, then sides sinuate to posterior approximate 2 / 5, where elytra become widest, then finely convexly; elytra distally slightly sinuately narrowed to irregularly separately arcuate; apex of each elytron with sharp, triangular medial tooth. Elytra convex, distinctly depressed along elevated suture in posterior 1 / 2. Surface with rows of small punctures, rather distinct in anterior 3 / 5, in places with indistinct, irregular, transversal wrinkles; towards back this structure smoothed, apically nearly indistinct.</p><p>Ventral surface. Prosternal process slightly convex, with few irregular, moderately large, deep punctures; proplevrae without punctuation; sternum with rather large, sparse, irregular, somewhat larger and deeper punctures than in prosternal process; abdomen with small, sparse punctures; abdomen towards back nearly completely smooth. Anal ventrite slightly irregularly arcuate apically.</p><p>Male unknown.</p><p>Differential diagnosis.</p><p>Aphanisticus snizeki sp. nov. is similar to A. coeruleipennis Théry, 1930 (Fig. 8), also from Southern Africa, which can be distinguished by smaller, less convex, and more robust body (in A. coeruleipennis body 3.15 mm in length, approximately 3.3 times as long as wide; elytra 2.4 times as long as wide). The dorsal surface in A. coeruleipennis is somewhat bicolourous with a dark-reddish-violet pronotum and blue-violet elytra with less distinct microreticulation.</p><p>Type locality.</p><p>Zambia, Central Province, Kapiri Mposhi town.</p><p>Distribution.</p><p>Zambia; so far known from the type locality only.</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The new species is dedicated to one of the collectors of the type series, Miroslav Snížek, with gratitude and respect.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6129D20A833F51C981DC36951361C9C0	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Kalashian, Mark Yu.;Kubáň, Vítězslav	Kalashian, Mark Yu., Kubáň, Vítězslav (2026): Three new species of buprestid genus Aphanisticus Latreille, 1810 from Southern African countries (Coleoptera, Buprestidae), with nomenclatural and taxonomic notes. ZooKeys 1287: 201-211, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1287.200030
