Anthaxia (Melanthaxia) neofunerula Obenberger 1942

(Figs. 1, 15, 23)

Diagnosis. Medium-sized (4.3 mm), black, matt, convex species (Fig. 15); frons with very short, poorly visible, recumbent pubescence; elytra asetose; elytral sculpture consisting of fine, longitudinal rugae on very finely microsculptured background; frons flat; vertex about twice as wide as width of eye; pronotal sculpture homogenous, consisting of fine, regular polygonal cells without distinct central grains; pronotum at midlength usually with four more or less distinct, rounded foveae; apical third of elytral margins and anal ventrite without lateral serration; male meso- and metatrochanters without spines; male meso- and metatibiae with nearly indistinct, inner, preapical serration; aedeagus short, spindle-shaped (Fig. 1).

Representatives of this species-group resemble some species of the A. (M.) quadripunctata (Linnaeus, 1758) species-group from the Palaearctic region differing from them by the finer, more homogenous pronotal sculpture and by the shorter aedeagus with apically narrowed median lobe (Fig. 1).

Species included. Anthaxia (M.) neofunerula Obenberger, 1942.