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(
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) 
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Abeille
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de Perrin, 1900
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(
<figureCitation id="A3800FCEFF8DFFA594BDFE6BFEDD95EC" box="[159,335,474,498]" captionStart="FIGURES 10 – 12" captionStartId="6.[151,264,1980,2003]" captionTargetBox="[311,1269,202,1958]" captionTargetId="figure@6.[300,1289,193,1961]" captionTargetPageId="6" captionText="FIGURES 10 – 12. Fig. 10, Anthaxia (Anthaxia) mancatula Abeille, 1900 3 (Iran, Ziaran, DBCR), dorsal aspect, 6.6 mm; Fig. 11, the same ventral aspect; Fig. 12, the same, dorsal aspect of anterior portion of body." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/247252/files/figure.png" pageId="18" pageNumber="473">Figs. 10, 11, 12</figureCitation>
, 
<figureCitation id="A3800FCEFF8DFFA59579FE6BFEEB95EC" box="[347,377,474,498]" captionStart="FIGURES 13 – 16" captionStartId="8.[151,264,1932,1955]" captionTargetBox="[195,1387,185,1908]" captionTargetId="figure@8.[175,1419,175,1911]" captionTargetPageId="8" captionText="FIGURES 13 – 16. Fig. 13, Anthaxia (Anthaxia) mancatula Abeille, 1900 3 (Iran, Ziaran, DBCR), dorsal aspect of specimen without pronotal bands, 7.0 mm; Fig. 14, A. (A.) senicula (Schrank, 1789) 3 (Armenia, Vedi, Khosrov Forest Reserve, DBCR), dorsal aspect, 8.2 mm; Fig. 15, the same, dorsal aspect of anterior portion of body; Fig. 16, the same, ventral aspect." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/247253/files/figure.png" pageId="18" pageNumber="473">13</figureCitation>
, 
<figureCitation id="A3800FCEFF8DFFA595A7FE6BFE5F95EC" box="[389,461,474,498]" captionStart="FIGURES 17 – 20" captionStartId="9.[151,264,1760,1783]" captionTargetBox="[244,1338,208,1734]" captionTargetId="figure@9.[239,1347,193,1739]" captionTargetPageId="9" captionText="FIGURES 17 – 20. Fig. 17, Anthaxia (Anthaxia) magnifica Bílý, 1983, holotype Ƥ (NMPC), dorsal aspect, 9.8 mm; Fig. 18, the same, data labels; Fig. 19, A. (A.) mancatula Abeille, 1900, lectotype 3 (MNHN), dorsal aspect, 5.5 mm; Fig. 20, the same, data labels." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/247254/files/figure.png" pageId="18" pageNumber="473">19, 20</figureCitation>
, 
<figureCitation id="A3800FCEFF8DFFA595FBFE6BFE6595EC" box="[473,503,474,498]" captionStart="FIGURES 23 – 24" captionStartId="13.[151,264,1976,1999]" captionTargetBox="[225,1358,179,1962]" captionTargetId="figure@13.[217,1370,177,1967]" captionTargetPageId="13" captionText="FIGURES 23 – 24. Fig. 23, Anthaxia (Anthaxia) mancatula Abeille, 1900 3 (Iran, Ziaran, DBCR), frontal aspect of head; Fig. 24, A. (A.) senicula (Schrank, 1789) 3 (Armenia, Vedi, Khosrov Forest Reserve, DBCR), frontal aspect of head." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/247256/files/figure.png" pageId="18" pageNumber="473">23</figureCitation>
, 
<figureCitation id="A3800FCEFF8DFFA59621FE6BFDB095EC" box="[515,546,474,498]" captionStart="FIGURES 30 – 33" captionStartId="17.[151,264,1904,1927]" captionTargetBox="[183,1404,183,1873]" captionTargetId="figure@17.[174,1418,179,1879]" captionTargetPageId="17" captionText="FIGURES 30 – 33. Fig. 30, Anthaxia (Anthaxia) simandli sp. nov., holotype Ƥ (DBCR), ventral side, sternal portion of body; Fig. 31, A. (A.) magnifica Bílý, 1983, Ƥ (Iran, Ziaran, DGCC), ventral side, sternal portion of body; Fig. 32, A. (A.) mancatula Abeille, 1900 3 (Iran, Ziaran, DBCR), ventral side, sternal portion of body; Fig. 33, A. (A.) senicula (Schrank, 1789) 3 (Armenia, Vedi, Khosrov Forest Reserve, DBCR), ventral side, sternal portion of body." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/247259/files/figure.png" pageId="18" pageNumber="473">32</figureCitation>
, 
<figureCitation id="A3800FCEFF8DFFA5960FFE6BFDE795EC" box="[557,629,474,498]" captionStart="FIGURES 34 – 39" captionStartId="19.[151,264,1854,1877]" captionTargetBox="[212,1367,196,1817]" captionTargetId="figure@19.[205,1381,193,1833]" captionTargetPageId="19" captionText="FIGURES 34 – 39. Fig. 34, Anthaxia (Anthaxia) simandli sp. nov., holotype Ƥ (DBCR), anal ventrite; Fig. 35, A. (A.) magnifica Bílý, 1983, Ƥ (Iran, Ziaran, DGCC), anal ventrite; Fig. 36, A. (A.) mancatula Abeille, 1900 3 (Iran, Ziaran, DBCR), anal ventrite; Fig. 37, the same, Ƥ (Iran, Ziaran, DBCR), anal ventrite; Fig. 38, A. (A.) senicula (Schrank, 1789) 3 (Armenia, Vedi, Khosrov Forest Reserve, DBCR), anal ventrite; Fig. 39, the same, Ƥ (Armenia, Vedi, Khosrov Forest Reserve, DBCR), anal ventrite." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/247260/files/figure.png" pageId="18" pageNumber="473">36, 37</figureCitation>
, 
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, 
<figureCitation id="A3800FCEFF8DFFA596DDFE6BFCD595EC" box="[767,839,474,498]" captionStart="FIGURES 47 – 56" captionStartId="21.[151,264,1813,1836]" captionTargetBox="[160,1424,195,1788]" captionTargetId="figure@21.[151,1436,193,1792]" captionTargetPageId="21" captionText="FIGURES 47 – 56. Fig. 47, Anthaxia (Anthaxia) simandli sp. nov., holotype Ƥ (DBCR), dorsal aspect of terminal tract of ovipositor, width 1.1 mm; Fig. 48, A. (A.) magnifica Bílý, 1983 Ƥ (Iran, Ziaran, DGCC), dorsal aspect of terminal tract of ovipositor, width 1.1 mm; Fig. 49, the same, 3 (Iran, Ziaran, DGCC), left protibia; Fig. 50, the same, right metatibia; Fig. 51, the same, Ƥ (Iran, Ziaran, DGCC), left protibia; Fig. 52, A. (A.) simandli sp. nov., holotype Ƥ (DBCR), left protibia, 1.8 mm; Fig. 53, A. (A.) mancatula Abeille, 1900, Lectotype 3 (MNHN), left protibia; Fig. 54, the same, right metatibia; Fig. 55, A. (A.) senicula (Schrank, 1789) 3 (Armenia, Vedi, Khosrov Forest Reserve, DBCR), left protibia; Fig. 56, the same, right metatibia." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/247262/files/figure.png" pageId="18" pageNumber="473">53, 54</figureCitation>
, 
<figureCitation id="A3800FCEFF8DFFA59771FE6BFCE295EC" box="[851,880,474,498]" captionStart="FIGURES 57 – 58" captionStartId="23.[151,264,1270,1293]" captionTargetBox="[536,1050,340,1241]" captionTargetId="figure@23.[531,1056,337,1248]" captionTargetPageId="23" captionText="FIGURES 57 – 58. Fig. 57, map of distribution in Iran of Anthaxia (Anthaxia) simandli sp. nov. (․) and A. (A.) magnifica Bílý, 1983 (□); Fig. 58, map of distribution in Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkmenistan of A. (A.) mancatula Abeille, 1900 (□) and nearest localities to Iran (Armenia) of A. (A.) senicula (Schrank, 1789) (․)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/247263/files/figure.png" pageId="18" pageNumber="473">58</figureCitation>
)
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<taxonomicName id="FCBB68C8FF8DFFA594B5FD93FD829626" authority="Abeille, 1900: 5" authorityName="Abeille" authorityPageNumber="5" authorityYear="1900" box="[151,528,546,568]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Anthaxia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="18" pageNumber="473" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mancatula">
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Abeille, 1900: 5
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; LT [here designated]: MNHN; TL: Vallée de l’Araxe [Arax river valley]. –Théry 1926: 162; synonym of 
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.
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–Bílý 2006: 59, 372; (in Löbl &amp; Smetana: Catalogue of Palaearctic 
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. Volume 3); resurrected name. 
<taxonomicName id="FCBB68C8FF8DFFA594B5FDCEFEC9968B" box="[151,347,639,661]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Anthaxia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="18" pageNumber="473" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="aurulenta">
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8DFFA594B5FDCEFEC9968B" box="[151,347,639,661]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="473">Anthaxia aurulenta</emphasis>
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f. 
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Obenberger, 1913: 64
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;
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ST: NMPC; TL: 
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: Astrabad [= 
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: Gorgan]. 
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<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8DFFA594B5FD2CFEC996AD" box="[151,347,669,691]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="473">Anthaxia aurulenta</emphasis>
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subsp. 
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Obenberger, 1935: 111; (sic!, subsequent incorrect spelling). 
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<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8DFFA594B5FD0DFEF296CC" box="[151,352,700,722]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="473">Anthaxia aurulenta</emphasis>
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ab. 
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Obenberger, 1935: 111; unavailable name (Bílý 1997); ST: NMPC; TL: Caucasus:
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<paragraph id="3B04134BFF8DFFA594E5FD6BFC8E96EE" blockId="18.[151,1437,546,752]" box="[199,796,730,752]" pageId="18" pageNumber="473">Jelizavetpol (Babadjanides), Daghestan: Temir-Chan-Šura.</paragraph>
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I have examined the 
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of this species (
<figureCitation id="A3800FCEFF8DFFA59647FCACFD7F972B" box="[613,749,797,821]" captionStart="FIGURES 17 – 20" captionStartId="9.[151,264,1760,1783]" captionTargetBox="[244,1338,208,1734]" captionTargetId="figure@9.[239,1347,193,1739]" captionTargetPageId="9" captionText="FIGURES 17 – 20. Fig. 17, Anthaxia (Anthaxia) magnifica Bílý, 1983, holotype Ƥ (NMPC), dorsal aspect, 9.8 mm; Fig. 18, the same, data labels; Fig. 19, A. (A.) mancatula Abeille, 1900, lectotype 3 (MNHN), dorsal aspect, 5.5 mm; Fig. 20, the same, data labels." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/247254/files/figure.png" pageId="18" pageNumber="473">Figs. 19, 20</figureCitation>
, 
<figureCitation id="A3800FCEFF8DFFA596D5FCACFC85972B" box="[759,791,797,821]" captionStart="FIGURES 40 – 46" captionStartId="20.[151,264,1855,1878]" captionTargetBox="[170,1420,180,1811]" captionTargetId="figure@20.[165,1429,179,1832]" captionTargetPageId="20" captionText="FIGURES 40 – 46. Fig. 40, Anthaxia (Anthaxia) mancatula Abeille, 1900, lectotype 3 (MNHN), ventral aspect of aedeagus, 2.2 mm; Fig. 41, A. (A.) mancatula Abeille, 1900 3 (Iran, Ziaran, DBCR), dorsal aspect of parameres, 2.4 mm; Fig. 42, the same, dorsal aspect of median lobe, 2.2 mm; Fig. 43, A. (A.) magnifica Bílý, 1983 3 (Iran, Ziaran, DBCR), dorsal aspect of parameres, 3.1 mm; Fig. 44, the same, dorsal aspect of median lobe, 2.8 mm; Fig. 45, A. (A.) senicula (Schrank, 1789) 3 (Armenia, Vedi, Khosrov Forest Reserve, DBCR), dorsal aspect of parameres, 3.4 mm; Fig. 46, the same dorsal aspect of median lobe, 3.2 mm." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/247261/files/figure.png" pageId="18" pageNumber="473">40</figureCitation>
). The specimen had already been examined and dissected by the late P. Svoboda before his premature death, and was designated as the 
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by him. Thus, since the number of 
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is actually unknown, following Svoboda’s unpublished designation I hereby designate this specimen as the 
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. The specimen, the smallest among all those I have studied, is in a rather good state of preservation, though largely missing the long pubescence typical of most species of this group. 
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usually happened at that time, and though focused on the most salient morphological features, Abeille’s description was given in a rather short paragraph, as did Obenberger (1913) in describing his 
<taxonomicName id="FCBB68C8FF8DFFA597D7FC44FB1F9013" box="[1013,1165,1013,1037]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Anthaxia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="18" pageNumber="473" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="intermedia">
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8DFFA597D7FC44FB1F9013" box="[1013,1165,1013,1037]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="473">A. intermedia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. I therefore give a more detailed description of the species:
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="73A140C0FF8DFFA194E5FB8CFD8A9319" lastPageId="22" lastPageNumber="477" pageId="18" pageNumber="473" type="description">
<paragraph id="3B04134BFF8DFFA594E5FB8CFB739117" blockId="18.[151,1437,797,2009]" pageId="18" pageNumber="473">
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8DFFA594E5FB8CFDF69048" bold="true" box="[199,612,1085,1110]" pageId="18" pageNumber="473">
Description of the male 
<typeStatus id="E400ADE9FF8DFFA595CAFB8CFDC6904B" box="[488,596,1085,1109]" pageId="18" pageNumber="473" type="lectotype">lectotype</typeStatus>
(
</emphasis>
<figureCitation id="A3800FCEFF8DFFA59646FB8CFD2A904B" box="[612,696,1085,1109]" captionStart="FIGURES 17 – 20" captionStartId="9.[151,264,1760,1783]" captionTargetBox="[244,1338,208,1734]" captionTargetId="figure@9.[239,1347,193,1739]" captionTargetPageId="9" captionText="FIGURES 17 – 20. Fig. 17, Anthaxia (Anthaxia) magnifica Bílý, 1983, holotype Ƥ (NMPC), dorsal aspect, 9.8 mm; Fig. 18, the same, data labels; Fig. 19, A. (A.) mancatula Abeille, 1900, lectotype 3 (MNHN), dorsal aspect, 5.5 mm; Fig. 20, the same, data labels." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/247254/files/figure.png" pageId="18" pageNumber="473">Fig. 19</figureCitation>
). Body subparallel, rather flat; colouration of head and pronotum reddish brown; frons bright green; pronotum reddish brown with two broad, longitudinal, slightly diverging purplish-brown bands; scutellum golden-reddish; elytra dark purplish-brown, widely reddish along lateral margins and apex; elytral base, circumscutellar area and short basal border of suture golden-reddish with green shine; legs reddish brown with strong greenish tinge; antennae black with golden-green tinge on basal antennomeres; ventral colouration golden-reddish with rather strong greenish tinge; remnants of pubescence long, white.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="3B04134BFF8DFFA594E5FAA4FDBD921B" blockId="18.[151,1437,797,2009]" pageId="18" pageNumber="473">Head slightly narrower than anterior pronotal margin; vertex flat, narrow, 0.33 times as wide as width of head, frons moderately wide, feebly depressed; eyes large, drop-shaped; inner ocular margins distinctly S-shaped, slightly divergent on lower 1/3, strongly convergent on upper 1/3; sculpture of head areolate, consisting of deep, irregular, subpolygonal cells with unsculptured bottoms and sharp, central setigerous pores on the frons, and irregularly elongated cells converging to the middle on the vertex; clypeus rather short, about 0.3 times as wide as total width of head, lateral margins subparallel, anterior margin bisinuate, deeply emarginate in middle; remnant of frontal pubescence very long, white.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="3B04134BFF8DFFA594E5F9A3FD0292A7" blockId="18.[151,1437,797,2009]" pageId="18" pageNumber="473">Antennae long, slender, 1.4 times longer than pronotum in midline; scape and pedicel bearing long pubescence; antennomeres 4–11 moderately flattened; scape club-shaped, 2.8 times longer than wide, slightly bent, strongly convex on inner margin; pedicel subconical, 1.6 times longer than wide; antennomere 3 slightly conical, 1.3 times longer than pedicel; antennomeres 4–10 subtrapezoidal, slightly longer than wide; antennomere 11 elongated, nearly 2.0 times longer than wide.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="3B04134BFF8DFFA594E5F977FAAA93AB" blockId="18.[151,1437,797,2009]" pageId="18" pageNumber="473">Pronotum transverse, 1.6 times wider than long, widest in posterior 1/2, slightly depressed in mid anterior part; anterior margin distinctly bisinuate, central lobe rather narrow, moderately pronounced; lateral margins weakly arched, slightly narrowed before the right angled lateroposterior angles; posterior margin weakly arched backwards in middle; lateroposterior depressions wide, shallow; sculpture of central 1/3 transversely areolate-rugose, somewhat convergent to the middle posteriorly; sculpture of lateral portions irregularly areolate, consisting of rather deep cells with thick borders; cell bottom unsculptured, very shiny, with well pronounced central setigerous grain; lateral pronotal carina reaching 3/4 of pronotal length; remnant of pronotal pubescence long, white.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="3B04134BFF8DFFA594E5F870FDDA93C7" blockId="18.[151,1437,797,2009]" box="[199,584,1985,2009]" pageId="18" pageNumber="473">Scutellum subpentagonal, convex.</paragraph>
<caption id="6FC443C3FF8CFFA494B5F88FFF7993D1" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/247260/files/figure.png" pageId="19" pageNumber="474" targetBox="[212,1367,196,1817]" targetPageId="19">
<paragraph id="3B04134BFF8CFFA494B5F88FFF7993D1" blockId="19.[151,1436,1854,1999]" pageId="19" pageNumber="474">
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8CFFA494B5F88FFEC1934D" bold="true" box="[151,339,1854,1877]" pageId="19" pageNumber="474">FIGURES 34–39.</emphasis>
Fig. 34, 
<taxonomicName id="FCBB68C8FF8CFFA4958EF88FFD44934A" box="[428,726,1854,1876]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Anthaxia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="19" pageNumber="474" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="simandli" status="sp. nov." subGenus="Anthaxia">
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8CFFA4958EF88FFD9A934A" box="[428,520,1854,1876]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="474">Anthaxia</emphasis>
(
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8CFFA49637F88FFDE3934A" box="[533,625,1854,1876]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="474">Anthaxia</emphasis>
) 
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8CFFA4965DF88FFD44934A" box="[639,726,1854,1876]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="474">simandli</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8CFFA496FEF88EFCBE934A" bold="true" box="[732,812,1855,1876]" pageId="19" pageNumber="474">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="12FC7222FF8CFFA496FEF88EFCBE934A" box="[732,812,1855,1876]" pageId="19" pageNumber="474" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
, holotype Ƥ (DBCR), anal ventrite; Fig. 35, 
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8CFFA490CDF88EFA97934A" box="[1263,1285,1855,1876]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="474">A.</emphasis>
(
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8CFFA49131F88EFAB0934A" box="[1299,1314,1855,1876]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="474">A</emphasis>
.) 
<taxonomicName id="FCBB68C8FF8CFFA49115F88FFE95936C" authority="Bily, 1983" authorityName="Bily" authorityYear="1983" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Anthaxia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="19" pageNumber="474" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="magnifica">
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8CFFA49115F88FFA0E934A" box="[1335,1436,1854,1876]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="474">magnifica</emphasis>
Bílý, 1983
</taxonomicName>
, Ƥ (Iran, Ziaran, DGCC), anal ventrite; Fig. 36, 
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8CFFA4972FF8EFFCB1936D" box="[781,803,1886,1907]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="474">A.</emphasis>
(
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8CFFA49716F8EFFCD1936D" box="[820,835,1886,1907]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="474">A</emphasis>
.) 
<taxonomicName id="FCBB68C8FF8CFFA4977EF8ECFBCF936C" authority="Abeille, 1900" authorityName="Abeille" authorityYear="1900" box="[860,1117,1885,1907]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Anthaxia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="19" pageNumber="474" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mancatula">
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8CFFA4977EF8ECFC55936D" box="[860,967,1885,1907]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="474">mancatula</emphasis>
Abeille, 1900
</taxonomicName>
3 (Iran, Ziaran, DBCR), anal ventrite; Fig. 37, the same, Ƥ (Iran, Ziaran, DBCR), anal ventrite; Fig. 38, 
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8CFFA497B2F8CDFC35938F" box="[912,935,1916,1937]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="474">A.</emphasis>
(
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8CFFA49797F8CDFC56938F" box="[949,964,1916,1937]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="474">A</emphasis>
.) 
<taxonomicName id="FCBB68C8FF8CFFA497F8F8CAFB4A938C" authority="Schrank, 1789" authorityName="Schrank" authorityYear="1789" box="[986,1240,1915,1938]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Anthaxia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="19" pageNumber="474" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="senicula">
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8CFFA497F8F8CAFBBC938F" box="[986,1070,1915,1937]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="474">senicula</emphasis>
(Schrank, 1789)
</taxonomicName>
3 (Armenia, Vedi, Khosrov Forest Reserve, DBCR), anal ventrite; Fig. 39, the same, Ƥ (Armenia, Vedi, Khosrov Forest Reserve, DBCR), anal ventrite.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<caption id="6FC443C3FF8BFFA394B5F88EFEE693F0" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/247261/files/figure.png" pageId="20" pageNumber="475" targetBox="[170,1420,180,1811]" targetPageId="20">
<paragraph id="3B04134BFF8BFFA394B5F88EFEE693F0" blockId="20.[151,1436,1855,2030]" pageId="20" pageNumber="475">
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8BFFA394B5F88EFEC7934A" bold="true" box="[151,341,1855,1878]" pageId="20" pageNumber="475">FIGURES 40–46.</emphasis>
Fig. 40, 
<taxonomicName id="FCBB68C8FF8BFFA39597F88EFC1C934B" authority="Abeille, 1900" authorityName="Abeille" authorityYear="1900" box="[437,910,1855,1877]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Anthaxia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="475" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mancatula" subGenus="Anthaxia">
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8BFFA39597F88EFD82934B" box="[437,528,1855,1877]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="475">Anthaxia</emphasis>
(
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8BFFA39603F88EFDEE934B" box="[545,636,1855,1877]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="475">Anthaxia</emphasis>
) 
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8BFFA396AEF88EFD65934B" box="[652,759,1855,1877]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="475">mancatula</emphasis>
Abeille, 1900
</taxonomicName>
, lectotype 3 (MNHN), ventral aspect of aedeagus, 2.2 mm; Fig. 41, 
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8BFFA3956FF8EEFEF1936A" box="[333,355,1887,1908]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="475">A.</emphasis>
(
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8BFFA39551F8EEFE10936A" box="[371,386,1887,1908]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="475">A</emphasis>
.) 
<taxonomicName id="FCBB68C8FF8BFFA395BBF8EFFD0A936D" authority="Abeille, 1900" authorityName="Abeille" authorityYear="1900" box="[409,664,1886,1908]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Anthaxia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="475" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mancatula">
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8BFFA395BBF8EFFD96936A" box="[409,516,1886,1908]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="475">mancatula</emphasis>
Abeille, 1900
</taxonomicName>
3 (Iran, Ziaran, DBCR), dorsal aspect of parameres, 2.4 mm; Fig. 42, the same, dorsal aspect of median lobe, 2.2 mm; Fig. 43, 
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8BFFA396E7F8CCFD4E938C" box="[709,732,1917,1938]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="475">A.</emphasis>
(
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8BFFA396CEF8CCFD69938C" box="[748,763,1917,1938]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="475">A</emphasis>
.) 
<taxonomicName id="FCBB68C8FF8BFFA39730F8CDFC7E938C" authority="Bily, 1983" authorityName="Bily" authorityYear="1983" box="[786,1004,1916,1938]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Anthaxia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="475" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="magnifica">
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8BFFA39730F8CDFCE5938C" box="[786,887,1916,1938]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="475">magnifica</emphasis>
Bílý, 1983
</taxonomicName>
3 (Iran, Ziaran, DBCR), dorsal aspect of parameres, 3.1 mm; Fig. 44, the same, dorsal aspect of median lobe, 2.8 mm; Fig. 45, 
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8BFFA3900FF82DFBD193AF" box="[1069,1091,1948,1969]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="475">A.</emphasis>
(
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8BFFA39076F82DFBF193AF" box="[1108,1123,1948,1969]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="475">A</emphasis>
.) 
<taxonomicName id="FCBB68C8FF8BFFA3905EF82AFA1293AC" authority="Schrank, 1789" authorityName="Schrank" authorityYear="1789" box="[1148,1408,1947,1970]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Anthaxia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="475" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="senicula">
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8BFFA3905EF82AFB4293AF" box="[1148,1232,1947,1969]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="475">senicula</emphasis>
(Schrank, 1789)
</taxonomicName>
3 (Armenia, Vedi, Khosrov Forest Reserve, DBCR), dorsal aspect of parameres, 3.4 mm; Fig. 46, the same dorsal aspect of median lobe, 3.2 mm.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<caption id="6FC443C3FF8AFFA294B5F8A4FA0093DB" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/247262/files/figure.png" pageId="21" pageNumber="476" targetBox="[160,1424,195,1788]" targetPageId="21">
<paragraph id="3B04134BFF8AFFA294B5F8A4FA0093DB" blockId="21.[151,1436,1813,1990]" pageId="21" pageNumber="476">
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8AFFA294B5F8A4FEC59335" bold="true" box="[151,343,1813,1836]" pageId="21" pageNumber="476">FIGURES 47–56.</emphasis>
Fig. 47, 
<taxonomicName id="FCBB68C8FF8AFFA2959EF8A7FD7C9332" box="[444,750,1814,1836]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Anthaxia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="476" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="simandli" status="sp. nov." subGenus="Anthaxia">
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8AFFA2959EF8A7FD859332" box="[444,535,1814,1836]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="476">Anthaxia</emphasis>
(
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8AFFA29608F8A7FD179332" box="[554,645,1814,1836]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="476">Anthaxia</emphasis>
) 
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8AFFA296B5F8A7FD7C9332" box="[663,750,1814,1836]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="476">simandli</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8AFFA296DAF8A7FCDE9335" bold="true" box="[760,844,1814,1835]" pageId="21" pageNumber="476">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="12FC7222FF8AFFA296DAF8A7FCDE9335" box="[760,844,1814,1835]" pageId="21" pageNumber="476" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
, holotype Ƥ (DBCR), dorsal aspect of terminal tract of ovipositor, width 1.1 mm; Fig. 48, 
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8AFFA2962AF884FD8C9354" box="[520,542,1845,1866]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="476">A.</emphasis>
(
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8AFFA2960DF884FDAC9354" box="[559,574,1845,1866]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="476">A</emphasis>
.) 
<taxonomicName id="FCBB68C8FF8AFFA29674F884FCA09354" authority="Bily, 1983" authorityName="Bily" authorityYear="1983" box="[598,818,1844,1867]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Anthaxia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="476" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="magnifica">
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8AFFA29674F884FD299355" box="[598,699,1845,1867]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="476">magnifica</emphasis>
Bílý, 1983
</taxonomicName>
Ƥ (Iran, Ziaran, DGCC), dorsal aspect of terminal tract of ovipositor, width 1.1 mm; Fig. 49, the same, 3 (Iran, Ziaran, DGCC), left protibia; Fig. 50, the same, right metatibia; Fig. 51, the same, Ƥ (Iran, Ziaran, DGCC), left protibia; Fig. 52, 
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8AFFA296FFF8C3FD669399" box="[733,756,1906,1927]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="476">A.</emphasis>
(
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8AFFA29721F8C3FC809399" box="[771,786,1906,1927]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="476">A</emphasis>
.) 
<taxonomicName id="FCBB68C8FF8AFFA2970AF8C3FCED9396" box="[808,895,1906,1928]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Anthaxia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="476" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="simandli" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8AFFA2970AF8C3FCED9396" box="[808,895,1906,1928]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="476">simandli</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8AFFA297A4F8C3FC459399" bold="true" box="[902,983,1906,1927]" pageId="21" pageNumber="476">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="12FC7222FF8AFFA297A4F8C3FC459399" box="[902,983,1906,1927]" pageId="21" pageNumber="476" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
, holotype Ƥ (DBCR), left protibia, 1.8 mm; Fig. 53, 
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8AFFA294C9F820FE9393B8" box="[235,257,1937,1958]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="476">A.</emphasis>
(
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8AFFA2952DF820FE8C93B8" box="[271,286,1937,1958]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="476">A</emphasis>
.) 
<taxonomicName id="FCBB68C8FF8AFFA29511F821FDA293B8" authority="Abeille, 1900" authorityName="Abeille" authorityYear="1900" box="[307,560,1936,1958]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Anthaxia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="476" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mancatula">
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8AFFA29511F821FE0C93B8" box="[307,414,1936,1958]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="476">mancatula</emphasis>
Abeille, 1900
</taxonomicName>
, Lectotype 3 (MNHN), left protibia; Fig. 54, the same, right metatibia; Fig. 55, 
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8AFFA2917BF820FAE293B8" box="[1369,1392,1937,1958]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="476">A.</emphasis>
(
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8AFFA2915CF820FA1F93B8" box="[1406,1421,1937,1958]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="476">A</emphasis>
.) 
<taxonomicName id="FCBB68C8FF8AFFA294B5F81EFE0693D8" authority="Schrank, 1789" authorityName="Schrank" authorityYear="1789" box="[151,404,1967,1990]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Anthaxia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="476" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="senicula">
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF8AFFA294B5F81EFF7993DB" box="[151,235,1967,1989]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="476">senicula</emphasis>
(Schrank, 1789)
</taxonomicName>
3 (Armenia, Vedi, Khosrov Forest Reserve, DBCR), left protibia; Fig. 56, the same, right metatibia.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<paragraph id="3B04134BFF89FFA194E5FF26FE179599" blockId="22.[151,1437,151,2015]" pageId="22" pageNumber="477">Elytra moderately vaulted, 1.9 times longer than wide, abruptly narrowed at base, subparallel on basal 2/3, rather rectilinearly tapering till the separately, widely rounded apices; elytral base slightly bisinuate, as wide as posterior pronotal margin; basal transverse depression coarsely wrinkled, moderately deep, not reaching scutellum; humeral swellings poorly developed; lateral elytral groove narrow, deeper at base, disappearing at midlength; elytral epipleura narrow, disappearing before apex; lateral margins progressively more strongly serrate on distal 1/ 3; elytral sculpture coarsely imbricate at base, along lateral margins and on apical area, more sparsely imbricatepunctulate in middle.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="3B04134BFF89FFA194E5FE25FEB296F1" blockId="22.[151,1437,151,2015]" pageId="22" pageNumber="477">Ventral surface glossy, very shiny; anterior margin of prosternum slightly arched; prosternal process wide, lateral margins strongly curved, posterior angles and apex well developed, acute; sculpture of prosternum and mesosternum imbricate, deep, coarser on central part of prosternum and on prosternal process, transversally stretched along anterior margin, largely areolate on lateral prosternal margins, proepisternum and metepisternum; mesepisternum glossy, largely smooth; pro- and mesocoxae shallowly imbricate; sculpture of metasternum more imbricate-foveolate in middle, widely, shallowly imbricate on lateral parts and on metacoxal plates; posterior margin of central metasternal suture slightly divergent for a short distance; all trochanters unarmed; sculpture of legs shallowly imbricate, with fine basal microsculpture; abdominal surface glossy, with shallow, widely imbricate sculpture and very fine basal microsculpture; whole ventral surface, including legs, covered with very long, white pubescence.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="3B04134BFF89FFA194E5FD4DFD3C9729" blockId="22.[151,1437,151,2015]" pageId="22" pageNumber="477">Anal ventrite 1.7 times wider than long, poorly depressed along lateral margins; lateral margins moderately serrate on distal 1/2; apex wide, clearly tuncate.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="3B04134BFF89FFA194E5FCF4FEDE9011" blockId="22.[151,1437,151,2015]" pageId="22" pageNumber="477">Legs long, rather thick; tarsomeres moderately elongated, wide; protibiae subcylindrical, slightly bent at base, strongly serrate on inner-posterior margin; protarsi 1–5 subequal; mesotibiae subcylindrical, straight, strongly serrate on inner margin, mesotarsomere 1 longer than each of 2–4, tarsomere 5 as long as 1; metatibiae flattened distally, deeply, acutely serrate on inner margin, metatarsomere 1 much longer than each of 2–4, tarsomere 5 shorter than 1 and longer than each of 2–4; tarsal claws brown, thick, moderately long, distinctly enlarged at base, sharply pointed.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="3B04134BFF89FFA194E5FBADFB18914A" blockId="22.[151,1437,151,2015]" pageId="22" pageNumber="477">
Aedeagus (
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) slightly fusiform, subcylindrical at base, 5.3 times longer than wide, widest at 2/3 of its length; phallobase large, representing nearly 1/4 of total length; parameres strongly chitinised, sinuately, strongly narrowed on apical 1/3, setigerous area located laterally, on the narrowest preapical portion of parameres, with margins finely serrate; apical part of parameres slightly enlarged before the obtuse apex; apex of lower lamina sharp, feebly protruding; median lobe subparallel, 7.2 times longer than wide, strongly vaulted at base, and more thin apically; basal apodemes extending for nearly 1/3 of total length; dorsal surface unsculptured at base, with a strong V-shaped gibbosity at mid-length, and a median, narrow, slightly elevated area on apical 1/2; lateral parts of apical 1/2 strongly rugulose, irregularly covered with a number of scattered, backward directed teeth; apical part smooth, subtriangularly narrowed; apex slightly subrounded, slightly depressed in middle.
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<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF89FFA194E5FAEEFEA79166" bold="true" box="[199,309,1375,1400]" pageId="22" pageNumber="477">Variation</emphasis>
. Medium to large size species, length: 5.5 
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9.0 mm; body subparallel to slightly wedge-shaped; the size of males ranges from 
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x 
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(
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) to 
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x 
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, while the females vary from 
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x 
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to 9.0 mm x 
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. Sexual dichromatism absent. The 
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, in addition to the unusually small size, differs from most of the material I have studied, having a slightly different shape of head, with eyes not projecting beyond outline of head as seen in most males (
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). Possibly this is due to the methods used to kill and preserve specimens which were not optimal, and may have partly affected the freshness of the material itself, during the extended collecting trips at the end of the 19th century. With regard to intraspecific variability, the most important character in this species is the presence of pronotal bands, which in most specimens are completely absent (
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), independent of sex. In specimens missing the pronotal bands there is an increase in the golden and green pronotal tinge (
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). The slightly different aspect of the genitalia of the 
<typeStatus id="E400ADE9FF89FFA19023F916FBFA92A1" box="[1025,1128,1703,1727]" pageId="22" pageNumber="477" type="lectotype">lectotype</typeStatus>
(
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), in particular the apex of median lobe, is due to the position in which the aedeagus was preserved, showing the ventral side instead of the more diagnostic dorsal part.
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<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF89FFA194E5F8A2FE479335" bold="true" box="[199,469,1810,1835]" pageId="22" pageNumber="477">
<typeStatus id="E400ADE9FF89FFA194E5F8A2FE909335" box="[199,258,1811,1835]" pageId="22" pageNumber="477">Type</typeStatus>
specimen studied
</emphasis>
. 
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3 here designated: (MNHN): data labels illustrated (
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).
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<paragraph id="3B04134BFF89FFA194E5F886FA0F93C1" blockId="22.[151,1437,151,2015]" pageId="22" pageNumber="477">
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF89FFA194E5F886FD9A9351" bold="true" box="[199,520,1846,1871]" pageId="22" pageNumber="477">Further specimens studied</emphasis>
. 
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: Kasp. Meer-Geb., Lenkoran, 1897 Korb (DBCR). 
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: 
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[
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], Džvari, Tbilisi (GMCC, MKCN). 
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: Eşfahān prov.: 13 Km S Eşfahān, 
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. (DBCR, DGCC, GMCC). Gilan prov.: Masule, M. Tales, 
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. (GMCC); Siahrud, 
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S Rasht, 
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.
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(DBCR). Golestān prov.: Astrabad [= Gorgan, 
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] (2 ST and several specimens of 
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<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF89FFA1902AF812FB3793A5" box="[1032,1189,1955,1979]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="477">A. intermedia</emphasis>
Obenberger, 
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in NMPC); road Āzād Šar–Shāhrūd, SW Til Abad, 
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. (DBCR); 40/ 
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E Minudast, 700/ 
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.
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(GMCC).
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Markazī prov.: Ala Dagh (IRSNB: coll. Herman). Mazandaran prov.: Chahsavar [= Tonekabon] (PPDRI). Tehrān prov.: 10 Km N Ziaran, 
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. (DBCR, DGCC, GMCC). 
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: Ahal prov.: Firjuza (DBCR); Firjuza-Vanovaki [= Vanovskiy] (DGCC); Firjuza, Moral, Kopet-dag (DGCC); Ashabad (DGCC). Additional examined material in NMPC (Obenberger coll.), MNHN (Théry coll.), MKCN, SBCP, HMCM, MNCA.
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<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF88FFA094B5FB47FEC19112" bold="true" box="[151,339,1270,1293]" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">FIGURES 57–58.</emphasis>
Fig. 57, map of distribution in Iran of 
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(
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) 
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</emphasis>
(․) and 
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(
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF88FFA090F8FB46FB7B9112" box="[1242,1257,1271,1292]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">A</emphasis>
.) 
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<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF88FFA090DCFB46FAF19113" box="[1278,1379,1271,1293]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">magnifica</emphasis>
Bílý, 1983
</taxonomicName>
(□); Fig. 58, map of distribution in Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkmenistan of 
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(
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF88FFA097FEFAA7FC799135" box="[988,1003,1302,1323]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">A</emphasis>
.) 
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<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF88FFA09023FAA4FBFE9135" box="[1025,1132,1301,1323]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">mancatula</emphasis>
Abeille, 1900
</taxonomicName>
(□) and nearest localities to Iran (Armenia) of 
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(
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF88FFA095D3FA85FD929157" box="[497,512,1332,1353]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">A</emphasis>
.) 
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<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF88FFA09634FA85FDF89154" box="[534,618,1332,1354]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">senicula</emphasis>
(Schrank, 1789)
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(․).
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<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF88FFA094E5FAC0FD969194" bold="true" box="[199,516,1393,1418]" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">Bionomy and distribution.</emphasis>
I have reared this species only from 
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<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF88FFA0978BFAC0FB909197" box="[937,1026,1393,1417]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">Zelkova</emphasis>
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sp. and 
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<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF88FFA09040FAC0FB399197" box="[1122,1195,1393,1417]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">Ulmus</emphasis>
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sp., but its larva was reported by other authors to feed also on 
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<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF88FFA09658FA24FD2991B3" box="[634,699,1429,1453]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">Celtis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, 
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<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF88FFA096EEFA27FC9F91B3" box="[716,781,1430,1453]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">Pyrus</emphasis>
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and 
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<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF88FFA09768FA24FC0291B3" box="[842,912,1429,1453]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">Malus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Volkovitsh &amp; Alexeev 1994, as 
<taxonomicName id="FCBB68C8FF88FFA09134FA27FE8991CF" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Cratomerus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="23" pageNumber="478" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="intermedius">
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF88FFA09134FA27FE8991CF" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">Cratomerus intermedius</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
; Davatchi 
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF88FFA095BBFA0BFE5991CF" box="[409,459,1465,1489]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">et al</emphasis>
. 1959, as 
<taxonomicName id="FCBB68C8FF88FFA09660FA0BFD7A91CF" box="[578,744,1465,1489]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Cratomerus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="23" pageNumber="478" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="intermedius">
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF88FFA09660FA0BFD7A91CF" box="[578,744,1465,1489]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">C. intermedius</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) and I suspect that it may also attack 
<taxonomicName id="FCBB68C8FF88FFA090BEFA08FB4691CF" box="[1180,1236,1465,1489]" class="Ascidiacea" family="Polycitoridae" genus="Salix" kingdom="Animalia" order="Enterogona" pageId="23" pageNumber="478" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF88FFA090BEFA08FB4691CF" box="[1180,1236,1465,1489]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">Salix</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Specimens were mostly obtained from small and medium sized branches of 
<taxonomicName id="FCBB68C8FF88FFA09708FA6CFC1091EB" box="[810,898,1501,1525]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Ulmaceae" genus="Zelkova" kingdom="Plantae" order="Rosales" pageId="23" pageNumber="478" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF88FFA09708FA6CFC1091EB" box="[810,898,1501,1525]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">Zelkova</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, though I also found an adult in its pupal cell, at the base of a trunk of 
<taxonomicName id="FCBB68C8FF88FFA095A5F9B0FE429207" box="[391,464,1537,1561]" class="Insecta" family="Tingidae" genus="Ulmus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="23" pageNumber="478" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF88FFA095A5F9B0FE429207" box="[391,464,1537,1561]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">Ulmus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. The larval development usually lasts two years. Adults of this species are not attracted to flowers, and usually settle on sun-exposed leaves, however on one occasion a specimen was surprisingly found on a yellow flower of 
<taxonomicName id="FCBB68C8FF88FFA0958FF9FBFDB9927C" box="[429,555,1610,1634]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Asteraceae" kingdom="Plantae" order="Asterales" pageId="23" pageNumber="478" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="family">Asteraceae</taxonomicName>
, at Tilabad, in northern 
<collectingCountry id="43AC53DBFF88FFA09776F9FBFC17927F" box="[852,901,1610,1633]" name="Iran" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">Iran</collectingCountry>
. Such flower-visiting behaviour, unusual and occasional for species of this group, was also reported by other authors (Théry 1942; Schaefer 1949; Bílý 1982). 
<taxonomicName id="FCBB68C8FF88FFA094B5F920FEBD92B7" box="[151,303,1681,1705]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Anthaxia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="23" pageNumber="478" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mancatula">
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF88FFA094B5F920FEBD92B7" box="[151,303,1681,1705]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">A. mancatula</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is a rather widespread species in 
<collectingCountry id="43AC53DBFF88FFA0969CF923FD7C92B7" box="[702,750,1682,1705]" name="Iran" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">Iran</collectingCountry>
, more commonly found in the northern part of the country (Barimani 
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF88FFA0952DF907FED592D3" box="[271,327,1717,1741]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">et al.</emphasis>
2009; Borumand 2002, sub 
<taxonomicName id="FCBB68C8FF88FFA096A1F904FC8892D3" box="[643,794,1717,1741]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Anthaxia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="23" pageNumber="478" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="intermedia">
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF88FFA096A1F904FC8892D3" box="[643,794,1717,1741]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">A. intermedia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
), and its normal period of activity usually lasts from mid April to mid June. The species is currently reported from 
<collectingCountry id="43AC53DBFF88FFA09745F968FC5692EF" box="[871,964,1753,1777]" name="Georgia" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">Georgia</collectingCountry>
, 
<collectingCountry id="43AC53DBFF88FFA097F4F968FBA992EF" box="[982,1083,1753,1777]" name="Armenia" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">Armenia</collectingCountry>
, 
<collectingCountry id="43AC53DBFF88FFA0906CF968FB5E92EF" box="[1102,1228,1753,1777]" name="Azerbaijan" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">Azerbaijan</collectingCountry>
, 
<collectingCountry id="43AC53DBFF88FFA090FCF96BFA9C92EF" box="[1246,1294,1754,1777]" name="Iran" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">Iran</collectingCountry>
, 
<collectingCountry id="43AC53DBFF88FFA09103F968FA0A92EF" box="[1313,1432,1753,1777]" name="Kyrgyzstan" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">Kirgizstan</collectingCountry>
, 
<collectingCountry id="43AC53DBFF88FFA094B5F94CFE84930B" box="[151,278,1789,1813]" name="Tajikistan" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">Tadjikistan</collectingCountry>
, 
<collectingCountry id="43AC53DBFF88FFA0950AF94CFE50930B" box="[296,450,1789,1813]" name="Turkmenistan" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">Turkmenistan</collectingCountry>
and 
<collectingCountry id="43AC53DBFF88FFA0962AF94CFD1B930B" box="[520,649,1789,1813]" name="Uzbekistan" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">Uzbekistan</collectingCountry>
, and is likely to be found also in southern 
<collectingCountry id="43AC53DBFF88FFA0908EF94CFB68930B" box="[1196,1274,1789,1813]" name="Russia" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">Russia</collectingCountry>
, 
<collectingCountry id="43AC53DBFF88FFA0912EF94CFA0A930B" box="[1292,1432,1789,1813]" name="Afghanistan" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">Afghanistan</collectingCountry>
, 
<collectingCountry id="43AC53DBFF88FFA094B5F890FE889327" box="[151,282,1825,1849]" name="Kazakhstan" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">Kazakhstan</collectingCountry>
and western 
<collectingCountry id="43AC53DBFF88FFA09598F890FD939327" box="[442,513,1825,1849]" name="China" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">China</collectingCountry>
. In consideration of this wide distribution, this species can be classified in the Turano-Centralasiatic chorotype (Vigna Taglianti 
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF88FFA096E7F8F7FD6F9343" box="[709,765,1861,1885]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">et al.</emphasis>
1999).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="3B04134BFF88FFA094E5F8D8FCE193F3" blockId="23.[151,1436,1393,2029]" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">
Other species of 
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<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF88FFA095A6F8D8FE7B939F" box="[388,489,1897,1921]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">Anthaxia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
that were reared from the same samples of 
<taxonomicName id="FCBB68C8FF88FFA097F7F8D8FBBC939F" box="[981,1070,1897,1921]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Ulmaceae" genus="Zelkova" kingdom="Plantae" order="Rosales" pageId="23" pageNumber="478" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF88FFA097F7F8D8FBBC939F" box="[981,1070,1897,1921]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">Zelkova</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp., together with 
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<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF88FFA090DDF8D8FA07939F" box="[1279,1429,1897,1921]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">A. mancatula</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, are 
<taxonomicName id="FCBB68C8FF88FFA094E0F83CFDA193BB" box="[194,563,1933,1957]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Anthaxia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="23" pageNumber="478" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="diadema" subGenus="Cratomerus">
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF88FFA094E0F83CFEB593BB" box="[194,295,1933,1957]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">Anthaxia</emphasis>
(
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF88FFA09518F83FFE5293BB" box="[314,448,1934,1957]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">Cratomerus</emphasis>
) 
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF88FFA095F0F83CFDA193BB" box="[466,563,1933,1957]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">diadema</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
ssp. 
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF88FFA0964DF83CFC9A93BB" box="[623,776,1933,1957]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">shelkovnikovi</emphasis>
Obenberger, 1940 (first record on 
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<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF88FFA090B8F83CFB6093BB" box="[1178,1266,1933,1957]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">Zelkova</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) and 
<taxonomicName id="FCBB68C8FF88FFA09115F83CFDF193D7" authority="Bily, 1983" authorityName="Bily" authorityYear="1983" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Anthaxia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="23" pageNumber="478" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="beludjistana" subGenus="Haplanthaxia">
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF88FFA09115F83CFA0E93BB" box="[1335,1436,1933,1957]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">Anthaxia</emphasis>
(
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF88FFA09482F800FEA893D7" box="[160,314,1969,1993]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">Haplanthaxia</emphasis>
) 
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF88FFA09572F800FE4993D7" box="[336,475,1969,1993]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">beludjistana</emphasis>
Bílý, 1983
</taxonomicName>
(first record on 
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<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF88FFA0970DF800FC1A93D7" box="[815,904,1969,1993]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">Zelkova</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
), while from 
<taxonomicName id="FCBB68C8FF88FFA09010F800FBE993D7" box="[1074,1147,1969,1993]" class="Insecta" family="Tingidae" genus="Ulmus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="23" pageNumber="478" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF88FFA09010F800FBE993D7" box="[1074,1147,1969,1993]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">Ulmus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp. I obtained 
<taxonomicName id="FCBB68C8FF88FFA09115F800FDF693F3" authority="Ganglbauer, 1885" authorityName="Ganglbauer" authorityYear="1885" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Anthaxia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="23" pageNumber="478" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="krueperi" subGenus="Cratomerus">
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF88FFA09115F800FA0E93D7" box="[1335,1436,1969,1993]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">Anthaxia</emphasis>
(
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF88FFA09482F867FEB493F3" box="[160,294,2006,2029]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">Cratomerus</emphasis>
) 
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF88FFA09514F864FE0793F3" box="[310,405,2005,2029]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">krueperi</emphasis>
Ganglbauer, 1885
</taxonomicName>
(first record on 
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<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF88FFA0973BF864FCF093F3" box="[793,866,2005,2029]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="478">Ulmus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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<paragraph id="3B04134BFF87FFAF94B5FB1FFABE911C" blockId="24.[151,1436,1198,1282]" pageId="24" pageNumber="479">
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF87FFAF94B5FB1FFEC190DA" bold="true" box="[151,339,1198,1221]" pageId="24" pageNumber="479">FIGURES 59–60.</emphasis>
Fig. 59, North Iran (Tehrān prov.), 10 km N Ziaran, 2100 m, locality of 
<taxonomicName id="FCBB68C8FF87FFAF9009FB1EFF5890FD" authority="Bily, 1983" authorityName="Bily" authorityYear="1983" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Anthaxia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="24" pageNumber="479" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="magnifica" subGenus="Anthaxia">
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF87FFAF9009FB1EFB1490DB" box="[1067,1158,1199,1221]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="479">Anthaxia</emphasis>
(
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF87FFAF90B7FB1EFB6290DB" box="[1173,1264,1199,1221]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="479">Anthaxia</emphasis>
) 
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF87FFAF90DDFB1EFAF690DB" box="[1279,1380,1199,1221]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="479">magnifica</emphasis>
Bílý, 1983
</taxonomicName>
(on the foreground the small tree of 
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<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF87FFAF9618FB7FFDFF90FA" box="[570,621,1230,1252]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="479">Salix</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp. from which were collected the wood samples with larvae); Fig. 60, West Iran (Lorestan prov.), 25 km SE of Dorud, 5 km SE of Darband, 2400 m, topotypical locality of 
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF87FFAF9017FB5CFBD9911C" box="[1077,1099,1261,1282]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="479">A.</emphasis>
(
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF87FFAF9078FB5CFBFB911C" box="[1114,1129,1261,1282]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="479">A</emphasis>
.) 
<taxonomicName id="FCBB68C8FF87FFAF905CFB5DFB47911C" box="[1150,1237,1260,1282]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Anthaxia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="24" pageNumber="479" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="simandli" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF87FFAF905CFB5DFB47911C" box="[1150,1237,1260,1282]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="479">simandli</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="12FC7222FF87FFAF90FEFB5CFABE911C" box="[1244,1324,1261,1282]" pageId="24" pageNumber="479" rank="species">
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF87FFAF90FEFB5CFAB4911C" bold="true" box="[1244,1318,1261,1282]" pageId="24" pageNumber="479">sp. nov</emphasis>
.
</taxonomicNameLabel>
</paragraph>
</caption>
<subSubSection id="73A140C0FF87FFAF94E5FA9FFC649305" pageId="24" pageNumber="479" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="3B04134BFF87FFAF94E5FA9FFC649305" blockId="24.[151,1436,1326,1819]" pageId="24" pageNumber="479">
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF87FFAF94E5FA9FFEDD9159" bold="true" box="[199,335,1326,1351]" pageId="24" pageNumber="479">Comments.</emphasis>
The study of the 
<typeStatus id="E400ADE9FF87FFAF960FFA81FDCF9156" box="[557,605,1328,1352]" pageId="24" pageNumber="479">type</typeStatus>
confirmed that, as Obenberger (1935) stated, the most diagnostic and reliable morphological character that separates 
<taxonomicName id="FCBB68C8FF87FFAF968DFAE2FCD79175" box="[687,837,1363,1387]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Anthaxia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="24" pageNumber="479" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mancatula">
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF87FFAF968DFAE2FCD79175" box="[687,837,1363,1387]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="479">A. mancatula</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from 
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF87FFAF97AEFAE2FB839175" box="[908,1041,1363,1387]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="479">
<taxonomicName id="FCBB68C8FF87FFAF97AEFAE2FB9F9175" box="[908,1037,1363,1387]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Anthaxia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="24" pageNumber="479" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="senicula">A. senicula</taxonomicName>
,
</emphasis>
is the shape of the median lobe of male genitalia, which in 
<taxonomicName id="FCBB68C8FF87FFAF959FFAC6FDAD9191" box="[445,575,1399,1423]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Anthaxia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="24" pageNumber="479" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="senicula">
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF87FFAF959FFAC6FDAD9191" box="[445,575,1399,1423]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="479">A. senicula</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
shows a rather widely, transversally truncate apex (
<figureCitation id="A3800FCEFF87FFAF9085FAC6FB6D9191" box="[1191,1279,1399,1423]" captionStart="FIGURES 40 – 46" captionStartId="20.[151,264,1855,1878]" captionTargetBox="[170,1420,180,1811]" captionTargetId="figure@20.[165,1429,179,1832]" captionTargetPageId="20" captionText="FIGURES 40 – 46. Fig. 40, Anthaxia (Anthaxia) mancatula Abeille, 1900, lectotype 3 (MNHN), ventral aspect of aedeagus, 2.2 mm; Fig. 41, A. (A.) mancatula Abeille, 1900 3 (Iran, Ziaran, DBCR), dorsal aspect of parameres, 2.4 mm; Fig. 42, the same, dorsal aspect of median lobe, 2.2 mm; Fig. 43, A. (A.) magnifica Bílý, 1983 3 (Iran, Ziaran, DBCR), dorsal aspect of parameres, 3.1 mm; Fig. 44, the same, dorsal aspect of median lobe, 2.8 mm; Fig. 45, A. (A.) senicula (Schrank, 1789) 3 (Armenia, Vedi, Khosrov Forest Reserve, DBCR), dorsal aspect of parameres, 3.4 mm; Fig. 46, the same dorsal aspect of median lobe, 3.2 mm." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/247261/files/figure.png" pageId="24" pageNumber="479">Fig. 46</figureCitation>
), while in 
<taxonomicName id="FCBB68C8FF87FFAF91A6FAC6FE9F91AD" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Anthaxia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="24" pageNumber="479" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mancatula">
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF87FFAF91A6FAC6FE9F91AD" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="479">A. mancatula</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
it is more narrowly, subroundly pointed (
<figureCitation id="A3800FCEFF87FFAF96FEFA2AFCC891AD" box="[732,858,1435,1459]" captionStart="FIGURES 40 – 46" captionStartId="20.[151,264,1855,1878]" captionTargetBox="[170,1420,180,1811]" captionTargetId="figure@20.[165,1429,179,1832]" captionTargetPageId="20" captionText="FIGURES 40 – 46. Fig. 40, Anthaxia (Anthaxia) mancatula Abeille, 1900, lectotype 3 (MNHN), ventral aspect of aedeagus, 2.2 mm; Fig. 41, A. (A.) mancatula Abeille, 1900 3 (Iran, Ziaran, DBCR), dorsal aspect of parameres, 2.4 mm; Fig. 42, the same, dorsal aspect of median lobe, 2.2 mm; Fig. 43, A. (A.) magnifica Bílý, 1983 3 (Iran, Ziaran, DBCR), dorsal aspect of parameres, 3.1 mm; Fig. 44, the same, dorsal aspect of median lobe, 2.8 mm; Fig. 45, A. (A.) senicula (Schrank, 1789) 3 (Armenia, Vedi, Khosrov Forest Reserve, DBCR), dorsal aspect of parameres, 3.4 mm; Fig. 46, the same dorsal aspect of median lobe, 3.2 mm." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/247261/files/figure.png" pageId="24" pageNumber="479">Fig. 40, 42</figureCitation>
). The same difference was described and illustrated by Richter (1949:185). Females, especially those missing well developed pronotal bands, are more difficult to identify, and the most obvious character, though showing intraspecific variability, is the shape of the anal ventrite, which in 
<taxonomicName id="FCBB68C8FF87FFAF9521F9B6FE139201" box="[259,385,1543,1567]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Anthaxia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="24" pageNumber="479" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="senicula">
<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF87FFAF9521F9B6FE139201" box="[259,385,1543,1567]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="479">A. senicula</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
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) is slightly more transverse, rather deeply depressed along the lateral margins, and widely emarginate at apex. By contrast in 
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<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF87FFAF96A6F99AFC8E925D" box="[644,796,1579,1603]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="479">A. mancatula</emphasis>
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, the anal ventrite is weakly depressed along the lateral margins, and has a more widely rounded apex (
<figureCitation id="A3800FCEFF87FFAF968AF9FEFD6E9279" box="[680,764,1615,1639]" captionStart="FIGURES 34 – 39" captionStartId="19.[151,264,1854,1877]" captionTargetBox="[212,1367,196,1817]" captionTargetId="figure@19.[205,1381,193,1833]" captionTargetPageId="19" captionText="FIGURES 34 – 39. Fig. 34, Anthaxia (Anthaxia) simandli sp. nov., holotype Ƥ (DBCR), anal ventrite; Fig. 35, A. (A.) magnifica Bílý, 1983, Ƥ (Iran, Ziaran, DGCC), anal ventrite; Fig. 36, A. (A.) mancatula Abeille, 1900 3 (Iran, Ziaran, DBCR), anal ventrite; Fig. 37, the same, Ƥ (Iran, Ziaran, DBCR), anal ventrite; Fig. 38, A. (A.) senicula (Schrank, 1789) 3 (Armenia, Vedi, Khosrov Forest Reserve, DBCR), anal ventrite; Fig. 39, the same, Ƥ (Armenia, Vedi, Khosrov Forest Reserve, DBCR), anal ventrite." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/247260/files/figure.png" pageId="24" pageNumber="479">Fig. 37</figureCitation>
), with a narrower deep notch. In addition, in 
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<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF87FFAF90D4F9FEFAE09279" box="[1270,1394,1615,1639]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="479">A. senicula</emphasis>
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the pronotal sculpture is usually deeper, with better defined cell borders, the elytra are usually slightly more narrowly tapered and more coarsely sculptured, and the prosternal process (
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) is proportionally wider than in 
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<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF87FFAF91A6F926FE9F92CD" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="479">A. mancatula</emphasis>
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(
<figureCitation id="A3800FCEFF87FFAF9500F90AFEEF92CD" box="[290,381,1723,1747]" captionStart="FIGURES 30 – 33" captionStartId="17.[151,264,1904,1927]" captionTargetBox="[183,1404,183,1873]" captionTargetId="figure@17.[174,1418,179,1879]" captionTargetPageId="17" captionText="FIGURES 30 – 33. Fig. 30, Anthaxia (Anthaxia) simandli sp. nov., holotype Ƥ (DBCR), ventral side, sternal portion of body; Fig. 31, A. (A.) magnifica Bílý, 1983, Ƥ (Iran, Ziaran, DGCC), ventral side, sternal portion of body; Fig. 32, A. (A.) mancatula Abeille, 1900 3 (Iran, Ziaran, DBCR), ventral side, sternal portion of body; Fig. 33, A. (A.) senicula (Schrank, 1789) 3 (Armenia, Vedi, Khosrov Forest Reserve, DBCR), ventral side, sternal portion of body." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/247259/files/figure.png" pageId="24" pageNumber="479">Fig. 32</figureCitation>
). In males, the pubescence of frons is much denser in 
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<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF87FFAF903CF90AFB3092CD" box="[1054,1186,1723,1747]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="479">A. senicula</emphasis>
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(
<figureCitation id="A3800FCEFF87FFAF9094F90AFA9C92CD" box="[1206,1294,1723,1747]" captionStart="FIGURES 23 – 24" captionStartId="13.[151,264,1976,1999]" captionTargetBox="[225,1358,179,1962]" captionTargetId="figure@13.[217,1370,177,1967]" captionTargetPageId="13" captionText="FIGURES 23 – 24. Fig. 23, Anthaxia (Anthaxia) mancatula Abeille, 1900 3 (Iran, Ziaran, DBCR), frontal aspect of head; Fig. 24, A. (A.) senicula (Schrank, 1789) 3 (Armenia, Vedi, Khosrov Forest Reserve, DBCR), frontal aspect of head." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/247256/files/figure.png" pageId="24" pageNumber="479">Fig. 24</figureCitation>
) than in 
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<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF87FFAF91A6F90AFE9F92E9" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="479">A. mancatula</emphasis>
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, in which it is usually more concentrated along the ocular margins (
<figureCitation id="A3800FCEFF87FFAF9075F96EFB2092E9" box="[1111,1202,1759,1783]" captionStart="FIGURES 23 – 24" captionStartId="13.[151,264,1976,1999]" captionTargetBox="[225,1358,179,1962]" captionTargetId="figure@13.[217,1370,177,1967]" captionTargetPageId="13" captionText="FIGURES 23 – 24. Fig. 23, Anthaxia (Anthaxia) mancatula Abeille, 1900 3 (Iran, Ziaran, DBCR), frontal aspect of head; Fig. 24, A. (A.) senicula (Schrank, 1789) 3 (Armenia, Vedi, Khosrov Forest Reserve, DBCR), frontal aspect of head." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/247256/files/figure.png" pageId="24" pageNumber="479">Fig. 23</figureCitation>
). Populations of 
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<emphasis id="09CFCF59FF87FFAF91A6F96EFE9F9305" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="479">A. mancatula</emphasis>
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from Central Asia, usually show a slightly finer surface sculpture.
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