New genus and species of the subtribe Anthaxomorphina Hołyński, 1993 from Eastern Indonesia, with taxonomic and bionomical notes on the genus Anthaxomorphus Deyrolle, 1864 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Aphanisticini)
Author
Bílý, Svatopluk
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Zootaxa
2007
2007-09-12
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https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.1583.1.5
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.1583.1.5
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Anthaxomorphus papuanus
Deyrolle, 1864
(
Figs. 3, 5
)
Anthaxomorphus papuanus
Deyrolle, 1864: 221
.
Type
locality:
New
Guinea
.
This species was described from
one specimen
(
holotype
in
MNHN
, sex unknown) labelled “N.
Guinée
”
.
During our trip to the eastern
Indonesia
(
xii.2006
–
i.2007
) we collected about
20 specimens
of
A. papuanus
on the leaves of
Ficus wassa
Thouras (Moraceae)
and we observed many specimens flying around this small tree. Specimens sitting on leaves partly flew and partly jumped off when they were disturbed. We also found old, empty mines in the same leaves (
Fig. 10
). This species was also collected and reared from the leaves of the same host plant and from related species
F.copiosa
Steud.
near
Madang
(
PNG
) by the staff of the
Madang
Ecology Project. In
1998 I
collected on the
Maluku Islands
(Seram, Elamata,
600m
,
23.x.1998
)
two specimens
of
A. oblongus
by shaking of sunexposed branches of
Ficus
sp.
These observations confirm Bellamy´s data (
Bellamy, 1987
); he supposed
Ficus
spp.
to be host plants of the genus
Anthaxomorphus
(he recorded the rearing of two African species from leaves of
Ficus
sp.
).
Specimens studied.
Holotype
(
MNHN
);
Indonesia
, Papua Prov.,
Biak
,
Adidakam
,
23.–26.xii.2006
, 00
o
57'71S 135
o
47'63
E, Sv. Bílý
leg. (
10 males
,
11 females
,
NMPC
);
New
Guinea N,
Sentani Lk
–
300m
,
March 1992
, leg.
Jiří Kolibáč
(
1 male
,
1 female
,
TICB
);
Papua New Guinea
,
Madang Province
,
Kibara
,
Ohu Village
, various data (
31.xii.2003
–
14.iv.2004
),
B. Isua
,
S. San
,
E. Brus
,
K. Molem
,
R. Lilip
leg., reared from
Ficus wassa
and
F.copiosa
(
20 males
,
22 females
,
USNM
,
NMPC
).