Tetragonoschema (Patagoschema) Bily , 2012

Bily, Svatopluk, 2013, A study on the Neotropical Anthaxiini (Coleoptera, Buprestidae, Buprestinae), ZooKeys 304, pp. 17-47 : 43

Tetragonoschema (Patagoschema) Bily, 2012 Fig. 28

Type species.

Tetragonoschema patagonicum Obenberger, 1922 by original designation.

The subgenus contains 3 dark bronze, subcylindrical species; elytra completely or partly red-bronze, convex, without lateral and preapical depressions only with flat, medial, triangular depression at anterior elytral third; elytral epipleura narrow, not reaching elytral apex; frons convex with weak postclypeal depression; pronotum regularly, rather strongly convex, sometimes with two small, weakly developed, rounded depressions; antennae and tarsi reddish-brown; aedeagus short, spindle-shaped. The subgenus is distributed in southern Argentina (Patagonia).

Note.

Tetragonoschema (Patagoschema) patagonicum ( Fig. 28 ) is the southernmost distributed species of the genus Tetragonoschema (Patagonia, Santa Cruz). The province of Santa Cruz is situated south of latitude 46 where the climatic conditions are rather extreme and Tetragonoschema (Patagoschema) patagonicum is most probably one of the southernmost distributed species of the Neotropical Buprestids.

Figures

Figures 25 - 30. 25 Agrilaxia (Agrilaxia) claudei (Cobos, 1972), female, 7.4 mm (French Guayane, Kaw) 26 Anilaroides brasiliensis (Kerremans, 1897), male lectotype (Brasil, Bahia) 27 Tetragonoschema (Tetragonoschema) undatum (Steinheil, 1874), female, 4.0 mm (Paraguay, Loma Plata) 28 Tetragonoschema (Patagoschema) patagonicum (Obenberger, 1922), female lectotype, 4.6 mm 29 Agrilaxia (Agrilaxia) decolorata (Kerremans, 1899), male, prosternum 30 Cobosina willineri (Cobos, 1972), aedeagus.