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)
Author
Westcott, Richard L.
Author
Barr, William F.
text
Zootaxa
2007
1481
49
58
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.273778
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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.