Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) bambisina Obenberger, 1928

Ỹ, Svatopluk Bíl, 2008, A revision of the Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) kheiliana Obenberger, 1931 species-group (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), Zootaxa 1816, pp. 44-56 : 47

Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) bambisina Obenberger, 1928

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Anthaxia bambisina Obenberger, 1928: 235 ; 1930: 538

Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) bambisina: Bílý, 1997: 15 , 50, 156.

Type locality: Zimbabwe [“S Rhodesia ”], Bambisi.

Type specimen examined. Syntype (Ψ, NMPC) labelled: “S Rhodesia, Bambisi [h] // TYPUS [p] [red label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae [p], 22784 [h] [orange label] // Anthaxia bambisina m. Type [h], Det. Dr. Obenberger [p]”.

This species was most probably described from a single female; no other specimen has been found in the collections and the male remains unknown.

Diagnosis. Medium-sized, convex, robust, dark bronze; dorsal surface asetose, frons with rather long, dense, white pubescence, ventral surface with indistinct, short, sparse, white pubescence. Head large, frons strongly convex (Fig. 5), eyes large, reniform, projecting beyond outline of head; antennae short, hardly reaching midlength of lateral pronotal margins. Pronotum distinctly wider than elytra, 2.2 times as wide as long bearing very fine ocellate sculpture; lateroposterior depressions small, shallow, rounded; lateral margins simply rounded, anterior margin strongly bisinuate; scutellum large, roundely pentagonal, slightly wider than long. Elytra slightly uneven, 1.7 times as long as wide, subparallel, strongly acumined at posterior 1/3. Ventral surface mat, densely punctato-ocellate, anal ventrite of female finely emarginate apically; male unknown. Length: 7.6 mm; width: 2.9 mm.

Bionomy. Unknown.

Distribution. Zimbabwe.

Comments. This species is characteristic by the strongly convex frons (Fig. 5), eyes projecting beyond outline of the head and by the stout, wedge-shaped body.