Anthocomus (Anthocomus) lineatipennis Wittmer, 1995

Tshernyshev, Sergei E., 2021, A review of the genus Anthocomus Erichson, 1840 (Coleoptera, Cleroidea Malachiidae) species of Inner Asia, Zootaxa 4969 (3), pp. 511-525 : 520

Anthocomus (Anthocomus) lineatipennis Wittmer, 1995

Anthocomus lineatipennis Wittmer, 1995: 372–374 , Figs. 257–259 ( China: Yunnan), 1999: 195;

Anthocomus (incertae sedis) lineatipennis: Mayor 2007: 440 .

Remarks. This species was described from a batch of beetles consisting of four males, the special male characters of which attributed it to Anthocomus Erichson. Furthermore , the dentate antenna, subquadrate pronotum, impressed and appendiculate apices of elytra and simple without indentation posterior tibiae showed it to be a species of the subgenus Anthocomus (Anthocomus) Erichson. The main differential characters of the species are: Head and pronotum black with blue metallic luster, elytra pale yellow with black spots and stripes or almost completely black with yellow stripes and yellow apices, palpi, antennae and legs black, impressions in elytral apices of male straight, orange-red, appendages and lower margin of the impression black with a row of hairs, underside of body black lacking metallic luster. This is a high altitude species, all specimens being collected in mountains at elevations c. 3000 m a.s.l.

Distribution. The species was described from Yulong Mountains in Yunnan Province of China (27°00’N; 100°12’E).