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Knowltonia alleni Cazier, new combination

Description

Knowltonia alleni (Cazier), new combination

Chrysobothris alleni Cazier, 1938:15; Fisher, 1942:243.

Chrysobothris biramosa biramosa: Nelson, 1966:39 (part; misidentification).

This species is known only from Arizona and Colorado (Fisher, 1942). In color it ranges from green to copper to dark brown, and elytral markings, if present, are postmedian and subdued or in distinct. We have examined one exception, a green female with a broad apical violaceous apical elytral marking. Unlike the other species, nothing has been recorded of its habits, and relatively few specimens have been collected. However, we examined a good series from Arizona, Coconino Co., Moenave, 24-VI-67, taken on Atriplex canescens, ASUC. As Cazier (1938) stated, this species comes closest to K. atrifasciata. It may prove to be only subspecifically distinct.

Notes

Published as part of Westcott, Richard L. & Barr, William F., 2007, Resurrection and review of the genus Knowltonia Fisher, with description of a new subspecies of Chrysobothris Eschscholtz and new species of Acmaeodera Eschscholtz from North America (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), pp. 49-58 in Zootaxa 1481 on page 52, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.273778

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Cazier
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Buprestidae
Genus
Knowltonia
Species
alleni
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
comb. nov.

References

  • Cazier, M. A. (1938) New Acmaeodera and Chrysobothris from the Southwest (Coleoptera-Buprestidae). Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Science, 37, 12 - 17.
  • Fisher, W. S. (1942) A revision of the North American species of buprestid beetles belonging to the tribe Chrysobothrini. United States Department of Agriculture, Miscellaneous Publications, No. 470: 1 - 274.
  • Nelson, G. H. (1966) Notes on the Buprestidae: part IV, with a new synonym in Chrysobothris. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society, 59 & 60 (1964 - 1965), 37 - 41.