A revision of the Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) dispar Kerremans species-group (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Anthaxiini)
Author
Bílý, Svatopluk
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Zootaxa
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Anthaxia
(
Haplanthaxia
)
keniae
Théry, 1941
(
Figs. 12
,
19
,
26
)
Anthaxia keniae
Théry, 1941: 122
.
Type
locality:
Kenya
,
Laikipia Distr.
,
Rumuruti
.
Anthaxia
(
Haplanthaxia
)
keniae
:
Bílý, 1997: 26
, 83 (catalogue);
Bellamy, 2008: 1412
.
Type specimen studied.
Holotype
(female,
MNHN
): “
Kenya
Colony
,
Rumuruti
,
MacArthur
,
June 1932
[p] // Type [red, p] //
Anthaxia keniae
nov.,
Théry
det. [h]”.
Further specimens studied.
KENYA
.
Kenya
mer.,
50 km
N of Namanga
,
Ilbisil
env.,
18.ix.1997
,
M. Snížek
leg. (
1 male
,
NMPC
)
;
Kenya Eastern
,
Katutu-Kithioko
,
27.xi.1999
,
M. Snížek
leg. (
1 female
,
NMPC
)
;
Kenya
,
Naivasha Lake
,
1800 m
,
9.vi.2003
,
V. Sakalian
leg. (male,
NMPC
)
;
Kenya
,
Ngong Hills
,
8 km
S of Kiserian
,
1
o
27’S
36
o
38’E
,
10.-17.iv.2006
,
E. Jendek
leg. (
1 male
,
NMPC
)
;
Kenya
,
Loitokitok
,
31.xii.1993
,
Hovorka
leg. (
1 male
,
NMPC
)
.
TANZANIA
.
Aru Meru Dist.
,
Arusha region
, slopes
Mt. Meru
,
Tengeru
,
xi.2003
,
Dan Moore
leg. (
1 male
,
NMPC
)
.
Diagnosis. Medium-sized (
5.5–6.9 mm
), strongly wedge-shaped, lustrous, elytra uneven posterior third of elytral margins strongly serrate; dorsal surface asetose, black to dark bronze with intensive green lustre; ventral surface lustrous, black with violet lustre, abdominal ventrites with extremely short, sparse, white pubescence; male metatibiae with very weak, inner emargination, with weak serrations (
Fig. 26
); aedeagus (
Fig. 19
) elongate, almost uniformly narrowly spindle-shaped.
Anthaxia
(
H.
)
keniae
differs greatly from other members of the group firstly by the entirely asetose body and by the transversely rugose pronotum. It is included in the
A.
(
H.
)
dispar
species-group due to the strongly wedge-shaped body, broad pronotum, uneven elytra, form of the prosternal process and slightly modified male metatibiae.
Distribution:
Tanzania
,
Kenya
.