A taxonomic revision of Neobuprestis Kerremans (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) with the description of a new genus and two new species
Author
Levey, B.
Author
Bellamy, C. L.
text
Zootaxa
2013
3681
3
225
240
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3681.3.2
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Key to the species of
Burnsiellus
1 Metacoxal plate strongly widening to the femoral insertion, about twice as wide at the medial edge as at the lateral edge (
Fig. 31
).................................................................................................. 3
- Metacoxal plate less strongly widening to the femoral insertion, about one and a half times as wide at the medial edge as at the lateral edge (
Fig. 30
)................................................................................... 2
2 Elytra purple-brown with black costae and small pulverulent white spots (
Fig. 9
); underside entirely 'metallic' reddish purple and blue-green; Queensland...........................................................
B. albosparsa
(Carter)
- Elytra straw coloured with brown patches and black costae (
Fig. 7
); underside largely 'metallic' purple-brown but anterior margin and lateral margin of prosternum yellow; W.
Australia
, S.
Australia
, Victoria..............
B. marmorata
(Blackburn)
3 Elytral apices subtruncate, without well defined teeth (
Fig. 28
); elytra very densely almost contiguously punctured between the costae; pronotum strongly narrowing to the anterior and posterior angles (
Figs. 10
,
26
); fronto-clypeus strongly depressed between the antennal insertions; mid tibia much broader than hind tibia, strongly swollen in male, with long tibial spurs which curve at the apex; posterior margin of 2nd visible ventrite simple (
Fig. 12
); apex of last visible ventrite truncate, without lateral teeth (
Fig. 12
), W.
Australia
, S.
Australia
, New South
Wales
................................
B. trisulcata
(Carter)
- Elytral apices obliquely truncate, with well defined teeth (
Figs. 8
,
29
); elytra less densely punctured between costae; pronotum almost parallel sided (
Fig. 8
); fronto-clypeus only slightly depressed between the antennal insertions; mid tibia about as broad as hind tibia, not swollen in male, with shorter, straight tibial spurs; posterior margin of 2nd visible ventrite with a large semitransparent lobe at the middle, covering part of the 3rd ventrite (
Fig. 11
); apex of last visible ventrite slightly concave, with lateral teeth (
Fig. 11
); Victoria..............................................................
B. lobatum
sp. n.