Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) mindanaoensis Fisher, 1922

Bílý, Svatopluk & Kubáň, Vítězslav, 2012, A revison of the genus Anthaxia from the Philippines (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Buprestinae: Anthaxiini), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52 (2), pp. 433-442 : 437

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5331367

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5874219

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) mindanaoensis Fisher, 1922
status

comb. nov.

Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) mindanaoensis Fisher, 1922 View in CoL , comb. nov.

( Figs. 3, 6 View Figs , 11 View Figs )

Anthaxia mindanaoensis Fisher, 1922:13 View in CoL . Type locality: Philippines, eastern Mindanao island, Davao, 7º04′N 125º36′E.

Anthaxia mindanaoensis: OBENBERGER (1930) View in CoL : 547 (catalogue).

Anthaxia (Anthaxia) mindanaoensis: BÍLÝ (1990) View in CoL :138 (taxonomy, key, A. weyersi View in CoL species-group); NOVAK & BÍLÝ (1991): 4 (taxonomy, key); BÍLÝ (1997): 29, 92 (catalogue); BELLAMY (2008): 1429 (catalogue).

Type specimen studied. HOLOTYPE (by monotypy): ♀ ( USNM, type no. USNM 24671 ), PHILIPPINES: EASTERN MINDANAO: “ Davao [7º04′N 125º36′E] / Mindanao / [C. F.] Baker [leg.] [p] // 8337 [h] // Type No. / 24671 / U.S.N.M. [p+h, red label] // Anthaxia / mindanaoensis / Fisher [h]”. GoogleMaps

Further specimens studied. PHILIPPINES: NORTHWESTERN MINDORO: Abra de Ilog [13º26′N 120º44′E], W. Schultze leg. (3 ♂♂ 2 ♀♀, NMPC; 1 ♂ 2 ♀♀, SMTD) ; Mt. Calavite [13º29′N 120º23′E], W. Schultze leg. (4 ♂♂ 3 ♀♀, SMTD). GoogleMaps

Diagnosis. Very small (3.0- 3.7 mm), suboval, black-bronze species ( Fig. 3 View Figs ); elytra suboval with small, blue-green postscutellar stripe, frons very slightly convex, lateroposterior pronotal depressions very often with golden green tinge; parameres strongly constricted at apical third, median lobe sharply pointed ( Fig. 11 View Figs ). Sexual dimorphism nearly absent: the female differs from the male only by somewhat stouter body and by nearly parallel anterior two thirds of elytra which nearly completely cover the abdomen (elytra of male more sphenoidal, not completely covering abdomen) – see Figs. 3, 6 View Figs .

Differential diagnosis. Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) mindanaoensis is similar to A. (Anthaxia) weyersi ( Indonesia: Sumatra, Java) which differs from A. (H.) mindanaoensis only weakly by the characters distinguishing both subgenera (well-expressed only in males), by the elytral epipleura reaching only the apical, rounded part of the elytra, by the lighter colouration, by the more sphenoidal body and by the form of the median lobe, which is slender and more pointed in A. (H.) mindanaoensis .

Remarks. In the female holotype (see Fig. 3 View Figs ) the elytra completely cover the abdomen, which was the main reason for attributing this species to the A. (A.) weyersi species-group ( BÍLÝ 1990). As a matter of fact, all members of this species-group are very close to the subgenus Haplanthaxia .

Distribution. Philippines (Mindanao, Mindoro). New for Mindoro.

NMPC

National Museum Prague

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Buprestidae

Genus

Anthaxia

Loc

Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) mindanaoensis Fisher, 1922

Bílý, Svatopluk & Kubáň, Vítězslav 2012
2012
Loc

Anthaxia (Anthaxia) mindanaoensis: BÍLÝ (1990)

BELLAMY C. L. 2008: 1429
BILY S. 1997: 29
NOVAK G. & BILY S. 1991: 4
BILY S. 1990: 138
1990
Loc

Anthaxia mindanaoensis:

OBENBERGER J. 1930: 547
1930
Loc

Anthaxia mindanaoensis

FISHER W. S. 1922: 13
1922
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