Anthocomus (Anthocomus) similicornis Wittmer, 1999

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 : 521

Anthocomus (Anthocomus) similicornis Wittmer, 1999

Anthocomus similicornis Wittmer, 1999: 195 , 197, Figs. 95–97 ( China: Yunnan);

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

Remarks. This species was described from a unique male and such characters as dentate antennae, subquadrate and shagreen pronotum, and elytral apices provided with impressions and appendages within, show this to be true Anthocomus Erichson , and the straight posterior tibiae allows one to attribute this species to nominative subgenus. The species differs from the congeners by its black head and pronotum having weak pale blue metallic luster, elytra black with yellow apices; antennae and legs black. This is probably a high altitude species, the holotype being collected in mountains at an elevation of c. 3300 m a.s.l.

Distribution. The species is only known from the type locality, Hengduan Meili Mountains in Yunnan Province of China (28°06’N; 98°53’E).