The Madagascan Coraebini (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilinae): Part 4, New genera and species
Author
Bellamy, C. L.
text
Zootaxa
2003
174
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.157035
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157035
Neefia montana
,
sp. nov.
(Figs. 4, 12, 14, 16, 20)
Description of
Holotype
. Small, 5.1 x
2.1 mm
; body bluegreen above including frontovertex of head and genal angle, upper surface of pronotum and elytral disc and on perimeter of abdominal ventrites, with a faint purple reflection present on humeri and on either side of scutellum; ventral portion of head below supraantennal groove, thoracic ventrites and disc of abdominal ventrites black; legs black with faint bluegreen reflection on distal end of femora; small narrow elongate area on lateral pronotal explanate area with short recurved white setae; one large elytral fascia extends from humeri to before middle, densely covered with orange setae; metacoxal plate with dense short recumbent offwhite squamae on widened lateral third; surface imbrications elevated most strongly on pronotum; large, round deep punctures on head and pronotum, following imbrications; punctures on elytral more shallow, more elongate; punctures on underside small, shallow. Pronotum slightly more than 1.7 times wider than long, widest at about anterior 1/3; anterior margin biarcuate on either side of angulate median lobe; posterior margin bisinuate, median lobe truncate, rounded laterally; lateral margin slightly diverging from posterior margin to subparallel margin before narrowing to anterior angles. Genitalia as in
Fig. 20
.
Variation. The two female
paratypes
are 5.2 x
2.3 mm
and 5.8 x
2.5 mm
respectively. The smaller of these has the vertex, the elytral disc, the humeral and scutellar regions with purplish reflections, while the larger
paratype
is colored nearly identical to the
holotype
.
FIGSURES 1 9
, dorsal habitus: Fig. 1,
Dejongiella cavifrons
(
Fairmaire, 1904
)
; Fig. 2,
Neefia semivestita
,
n. sp.
; Fig. 3,
Neefia magna
,
n. sp.
; Fig. 4,
Neefia montana
,
n. sp.
; Fig. 5,
Neefia gracilis
,
n. sp.
; Fig. 6,
Neefia humeralis
,
n. sp.
; Fig. 7,
Neefia rufofascia
,
n. sp.
; Fig. 8,
Neefia rufovestita
,
n. sp.
; Fig. 9,
Neefioides rufobasalis
(
Fairmaire, 1897
)
.
11
Specimens
examined.
Holotype
(MNHN);
Madagascar
Nord, Mont[agne]. d’Ambre,
xii.1967
, Vadon et Peyrieras; 2
paratypes
, same data as
holotype
.
Paratypes
deposited in TNSC and CLBC.
FIGURES 10 17
, Head, pronotum and humeri: Fig. 10,
Neefia semivestita
,
n. sp.
, frontal aspect of holotype; Fig. 11,
Neefioides rufobasalis
(Fairmaire, 1897)
, frontal aspect; Fig. 12,
Neefia montana
,
n. sp.
, dorsal aspect of pronotum of holotype; Fig. 13,
Neefioides rufobasalis
(Fairmaire, 1897)
, dorsal aspect of pronotum; Fig. 14,
Neefia montana
,
n. sp.
, lateral aspect of pronotum of holotype; Fig. 15,
Neefioides rufobasalis
(Fairmaire, 1897)
, lateral aspect of pronotum; Fig. 16,
Neefia montana
,
n. sp.
, lateral aspect of humerus of holotype; Fig. 17,
Neefia humeralis
,
n. sp.
, lateral aspect of humerus of holotype; scale bars = 1.0 mm.
Etymology. This species is named for its montane habitat.
Remarks. At the time the original color habitus figures were drawn, this species was not yet recognized and no such figure is available, but a photograph of the
holotype
is included. It comes nearest to
N. semivittata
and can be distinguished from that species as indicated in the species key below, from the difference between the male genitalia and by the restricted northern locality of this species.