A revision of the genera Anilaroides Théry, 1934, stat. nov. and Tetragonoschema Thomson, 1857 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Buprestinae: Anthaxiini)
Author
Bílý, Svatopluk
text
Zootaxa
2012
2012-10-18
3521
1
38
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3521.1.1
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1175-5326
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Tetragonoschema
(
Tetragonoschema
)
rubromarginatum
Théry, 1944
(
Figs. 25
,
51
,
75
)
Tetragonoschema rubromarginatum
Théry, 1944: 22
.
Type
locality:
Argentina
, Chaco de Santiago del Estero, Bords du Rio Salado, env. d´Icaño.
Tetragonoschema rubromarginatum
:
Bellamy, 2008: 1520
(catalogue).
Type
specimens studied.
Number of
syntypes
unknown;
lectotype
(
Fig. 25
), here designated (
male
,
MFCB
): “
Argentina
,
Rio Salado
[h] //
Tetragonoschema cupreomarginatum
[sic!] Théry [h] paratype [p]”
;
paralectotype
, here designated (female,
MNHN
): “Museum Paris, [
Argentina
] Chaco de Santiago del Estero, Bords du Rio Salado, env. d´Icaño, 1910, E. R. Wagner [p] //
rubromarginatum
Théry
[h]
Type
[p]”.
Further specimens studied.
ARGENTINA
. CHUBUT: Desembocadura Río Chubut,
20.i.–7.ii.2011
, D. Rojas Lanus leg. (
3 males
,
MDCS
)
;
FORMOSA
: La Rioja, Alparinche,
30.xii.2002
, L. A. Stange leg. (
1 male
,
FSCA
)
;
Mendoza, San Carlos Arroyo, El Yaucha,
1450 m
,
21.i.1979
, Sergio Roig leg., on
Grindelia
flowers (
1 female
,
MDCS
).
Diagnosis.
Rather large, length:
5.2–6.5 mm
, stout with bicolorous elytra: blue-black or blue-violet, completely margined with red or golden-red; frons with rather long, pronotum with very short, white pubescence; pronotum regularly convex without lateroposterior depressions, elytra flat with deep and wide discal depressions; elytral epipleura wide, reaching elytral suture, easily visible from above; aedeagus very short and stout, parameres with preapical spines (
Fig. 75
). In its colouration resembling
T
. (
T
.)
cupreocingulatum
,
T
. (
T
.)
humerale
and
T
. (
T
.)
trinidadanse
but it differs from them strongly in the form of the elytral epipleura, pronotal shape and in the form of male genitalia.(
Fig. 75
vs.
Figs. 78, 80, 81
).
As the number of
syntypes
is unknown I hereby designate the male from MFCB as the
lectotype
and the female from MNHN as the
paralectotype
of
T. rubromarginatum
.
Bionomy.
A female from Mendoza was collected on flower of
Grindelia
sp. (
Asteraceae
).
Sexual dimorphism.
The female differs from the male only in the larger and stouter body.
Distribution.
Argentina
Note.
One male from Chubut possesses completely red elytra with a golden margin.