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Anthaxia (Melanthaxia) prasina Horn 1882

  • 1. Czech University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Department of Forest Protection and Game Management, Kamýcká 1176, CZ- 165 21 Praha 6 - Suchdol, Czech Republic; e-mail: svatopluk _ bily @ nm. cz
  • 2. Department of Entomology, National Museum, Kunratice 1, CZ- 148 00 Praha 4, Czech Republic; e-mail: vkuban @ volny. cz

Description

Anthaxia (Melanthaxia) prasina Horn, 1882 species-group

(Figs. 3, 13, 17, 25)

Diagnosis. Medium-sized (3.6–6.1 mm), convex, stout, matt species with silky lustre; dorsal surface bronze, blue, blue-green, rarely dark bronze; frons convex, rarely flat, always with dark, erect pubescence; vertex about twice as wide as width of eye; pronotal sculpture nearly homogenous, consisting of polygonal cells without or with poorly developed central grains; elytra 1.6–1.8 times as long as wide; elytral sculpture consisting of sparse, simple punctures; elytral pubescence well-developed or elytra mostly asetose except for very short, indistinct pubescence at apical third; male meso- and metatrochanters unarmed or with very small spine (Fig. 13); male meso- and metatibiae with fine, inner preapical serration; posterior third of lateral elytral margins and lateral margins of anal ventrite very finely serrate; aedeagus moderately long, parameres usually weakly widened at basal half or nearly subparallel (Fig. 3).

Species included. Anthaxia (M.) aenescens Casey, 1884, A. (M.) prasina Horn, 1882, A. (M.) subprasina Cobos, 1958.

Notes

Published as part of Bílý, Svatopluk & Kubáň, Vítězslav, 2010, A study on the Nearctic species of the genus Anthaxia (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Buprestinae: Anthaxiini). Subgenus Melanthaxia. Part I, pp. 535-546 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 50 (2) on page 539, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5326225

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Horn
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Buprestidae
Genus
Anthaxia
Species
prasina
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Anthaxia (Melanthaxia) prasina Horn, 1882 sec. Bílý & Kubáň, 2010

References

  • HORN G. H. 1882: Revision of the species of some genera of Buprestidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 10: 101 - 112 + pl. iv.
  • CASEY T. L. 1884: Contributions to the descriptive and systematic Coleopterology of North America 2: 61 - 198.
  • COBOS A. 1958: Ensayo monografico sobre las Anthaxia Eschs. (Coleoptera, Buprestidae) de America. Segunda parte: Subgenero Haplanthaxia Reitter y Anthaxia s. str. Archivos de Instituto de Aclimatacion (Almeria) 7: 69 - 126.