Anthaxia (Anthaxia) jenisi, Bílý, Svatopluk, 2006

Bílý, Svatopluk, 2006, Two new species in the Anthaxia (Anthaxia) candens (Panzer, 1793) species­group from Iran and Turkey, with taxonomic notes on the group (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), Zootaxa 1309, pp. 25-35 : 32-34

Anthaxia (Anthaxia) jenisi , new species

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Type specimens. Holotype (female): “SW Iran, prov. Fars, 1800–2800 m, Dast­e­Arzhan 7–15 km W, 20.–26.vi.2003, Ivo Jeniš leg.”; paratypes (3 females): the same data (2 ex.); “S Iran, prov Fars, 11 km W Dast­e­Arzhan, [W Shiraz], 22.iv.2002, ex larva, lgt. M. Johanides” (1 ex.). Holotype deposited in NMPC, paratypes in NMPC and in the collection of I. Jeniš (Náklo, Czech Republic).

Type locality: SW Iran, prov. Fars, 7–15 km W of Dast­e­Arzhan.

Diagnosis. Completely red­bronze or bright bronze, large, subparallel species ( Fig. 21 ); elytra sometimes with very indistinct and unclear saddle­shaped darker spot; legs, scutellum and three basal antennomeres bronze, distal antennal segments black; head with short, white pubescence, pronotum asetose, elytra and ventral surface with very short and sparse, white pubescence.

Description of holotype (female). Head relatively large, vertex as wide as width of eye, frons flat; eyes large, reniform, not projecting beyond outline of head; inner margins of eyes nearly regularly converging dorsally; sculpture of head homogeneous, consisting of small, rounded, dense cells with central grains; antennae moderately long but not reaching posterior pronotal angles; antennomere 2 twice as long as wide, antennomeres 3–10 more or less triangular, 2.0–1.0 times as long as wide, each becoming shorter, wider distally; terminal antennomere rhomboid, 1.5 times as long as wide.

Pronotum 1.6 times as wide as long, widest at anterior third; widely, shallowly grooved medially; anterior margin slightly bisinuous, posterior margin nearly straight; lateral margins moderately, nearly regularly rounded, straight just before posterior angles; pronotal sculpture consisting of small, rounded, dense cells with tiny central grains laterally and transverse wrinkles medially; laterally, these wrinkles are bent anteriorly towards pronotal angles. Scutellum subcordiform, flat, microsculptured, as wide as long.

Elytra 2.2 times as long as wide, flattened, uneven with several shallow depressions, distinctly caudiform apically; elytral margins nearly subparallel in anterior three fourths, steeply tapering in posterior fourth; apical third of lateral elytral margins finely, densely serrate; elytral sculpture consisting of fine, simple, sparse punctures which are rougher, more dense only along lateral and anterior margins. Scutellum subcordiform, slightly longer than wide, microsculptured.

Ventral surface with rough ocellate sculpture on prosternum and metasternum, finely tile­shaped on ventrites; anal ventrite simply rounded apically, finely serrate laterally. Legs relatively long, slender; tarsal claws slender, slightly hook­shaped, only indistinctly enlarged basally.

Male unknown.

Measurements. Length: 6.3–8.0 mm (holotype 7.9 mm); width: 2.5–2.9 mm (holotype 2.8 mm).

Bionomy. All type specimens were reared from the branch of Amygdalus sp. ( Rosaceae ).

Etymology. The species is named after the collector of the holotype and two paratypes, Mr. Ivo Jeniš (Náklo, Czech Republic).

Differential diagnosis. Anthaxia jenisi resembles A. superba from which it differs, except for its distribution, by brighter basal colouration of elytra and pronotum, less distinct or quite indistinct elytral pattern, wider and laterally rounded pronotum (parallelsided in A. superba ), by the pronotal sculpture which is composed in A. superba by fine, transverse wrinkles which are arcuate towards anterior pronotal angles and by the set of characters given in the key.

Figures

FIGURES 20 – 24. Habitus. 20, A. (Anthaxia) lucens urens Abeille de Perrin, female, 8.5 mm; 21, A. (A.) jenisi new species, holotype, female, 7.9 mm; 22, A. (A.) pyrosoma new species, holotype, male, 6.2 mm; 23, A. (A.) lucens lucens Küster, female, 7.5 mm; 24, A. (A.) candens (Panzer), male, 9.0 mm.