A study on the Neotropical Anthaxiini (Coleoptera, Buprestidae, Buprestinae) Author Bily, Svatopluk Czech University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Department of Forest Protection and Entomology, Kamycka 1176, Praha 6 - Suchdol, CZ- 165 21, Czech Republic text ZooKeys 2013 2013-05-22 304 17 47 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.304.5313 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.304.5313 1313-2970-304-17 CDE13AA6B46B4FCBA47AEFD7150DE111 FFBAE63B1849394CFFF3FFCEFF91541C 577608 Paracuris Obenberger, 1923 Figs 17, 18 Type species. Curis hemiptera Burmeister, 1872 by original designation. This monotypic genus lacks taxonomic problems and has very often been treated as a subgenus of Anthaxia , e.g. Bellamy (1985 , 2003 ), Bily (1997) , Cobos (1956 , 1986 ). Bily (2004) upgraded it to genus which was was accepted by Bellamy (2008) . The type species, Curis hemiptera , was synonymized with Anthaxia bimaculata Gory, 1841 by Berg (1884) and Cobos (1956) described the subspecies Anthaxia (Paracuris) bimaculata litigiosa Cobos, 1956 from Argentina (Rio Colorado, Rio Negro). Note. The nominotypical subspecies possesses rather strong sexual dichromatism ( Figs 17, 18 ). The female is rather similar to Paracuris bimaculata litigiosa and only the different form of the male genitalia (Figs 45-48 in Cobos, 1956 ) justifies treating the subspecies litigiosa as a valid taxon.