A study on the genus Anthaxia (Merocratus) Bílý 1989 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Anthaxiini) Author Bílý, Svatopluk Author Plachetka, Mikuláš text Zootaxa 2019 2019-11-26 4701 1 82 90 journal article 24792 10.11646/zootaxa.4701.1.6 f8c739e0-2226-47cc-b4ba-f94523fa7834 1175-5326 3557859 B1724FD4-6D4B-4213-9E3D-A0AED4EF9454 Anthaxia ( Merocratus ) tricolor Kerremans, 1912 species-group Body smaller (4.5–6.0 mm), stouter, dorsal surface not very brightly bicolorous usually almost unicolorous, frons weakly or moderately depressed, antennae of male shorter, not reaching posterior pronotal angles when laid alongside; aedeagus usually shortly spindle-shaped, parameres with preapical, lateral teeth or aedeagus long, strongly narrowed at posterior half and parameres with fine but long, lateral, preapical spines. Species included: Anthaxia ( Merocratus ) deyrollei Bílý, 1998 , A. ( M. ) longipilis Bílý, 1998 , A. ( M. ) occipitalis Deyrolle, 1864 , A. ( M. ) priska Bílý , sp. nov. , A. ( M. ) tricolor Kerremans, 1912 , A. ( M. ) violaceidorsis Bílý , sp. nov. and A. ( M. ) violaceiventris Deyrolle, 1864 .