identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
03AB87BC0F69FF8BB3F2019B2777FA21.text	03AB87BC0F69FF8BB3F2019B2777FA21.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Anthaxia (Merocratus) Bily 1989	<div><p>Subgenus  Merocratus Bílý, 1989</p><p>Type species of the subgenus:  Anthaxia (Merocratus) insulaecola Obenberger, 1944</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AB87BC0F69FF8BB3F2019B2777FA21	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Qi, Zhi-Hao;Zeng, Li-Qiong;Ding, Bi;Zhan, Fang-Fang;Su, Rong-Xiang;Ai, Hong-Mu;Cai, Shou-Ping;Song, Hai-Tian	Qi, Zhi-Hao, Zeng, Li-Qiong, Ding, Bi, Zhan, Fang-Fang, Su, Rong-Xiang, Ai, Hong-Mu, Cai, Shou-Ping, Song, Hai-Tian (2025): Taxonomic notes on Anthaxia subgenus Merocratus Bílý from China (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Buprestinae). Journal of Natural History 59 (5 - 8): 253-270, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2024.2438409, URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2024.2438409
03AB87BC0F69FF85B37F024623EDFEEC.text	03AB87BC0F69FF85B37F024623EDFEEC.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Anthaxia (Merocratus) zhengyucheni Qi & Song 2025	<div><p>Anthaxia (Merocratus) zhengyucheni Qi &amp; Song,  sp. n.</p><p>(Chinese common name: 郑氏花纹吉丁)</p><p>(Figures 1, 5 (a–d), 6(a–d), 7(a, b), 8(a, b), 9(a–c))</p><p>Type material</p><p>Holotype: ♂ (FAF), CHINA: Hainan Island, Qiongzhong County, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=109.76383&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=19.148445" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 109.76383/lat 19.148445)">Limushan Town</a> [黎母山 镇], <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=109.76383&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=19.148445" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 109.76383/lat 19.148445)">Limu Mountain</a> [黎母山], <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=109.76383&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=19.148445" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 109.76383/lat 19.148445)">Limu Temple</a> [黎母庙], 19°8 ʹ 54.4”N, 109°45 ʹ 49.8”E, alt. 600 m, 23.IV.2022, Yu-Chen Zheng leg.   Allotype: ♀ (FAF), CHINA: Hainan Island, Changjiang County, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=109.12653&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=19.084723" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 109.12653/lat 19.084723)">Bawangling</a> [霸王岭], <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=109.12653&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=19.084723" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 109.12653/lat 19.084723)">Yajia Waterfall</a> [雅加瀑布], 19°5 ʹ 5”N, 109° 7 ʹ 35.5”E, alt. 500 m, 3.V.2022, Yu-Chen Zheng leg.</p><p>Description</p><p>Holotype. ♂ specimen (Figure 1 (a, c)). Length 5.18 mm, width 1.89 mm, length/width ratio: 2.74; aedeagus length: 1.52 mm, width: 0.27 mm, length/width ratio: 5.63.</p><p>Habitus (Figure 1 (a,c)). slender, convex and lustrous, acuminate posteriorly; frons (Figure 5 (a)) metallic green, vertex (Figure 6 (a)) black; antennae (Figure 5 (c)) metallic green to metallic blue; pronotum (Figure 6 (a)) metallic green with two large, black, more or less triangular spots narrowed posteriorly; scutellum (Figure 6 (a)) metallic green; elytra (Figure 1 (a)) black to dark violet, the anterior margin of elytra and both sides of anterior third of elytral suture form an approximately triangular metallic green area, two large metallic green semicircular maculae along lateral margins, lateral margins with very narrow metallic green stripes extending to the apex, terminal quarter of elytra with two broad longitudinal metallic green stripes along the suture; front leg metallic green, middle and hind legs almost black with a hint of metallic green in dorsal view. Most of the ventral surface (Figure 1 (c)) metallic green, 2–5 ventrite nearly black with a small part of metallic green at the apex of anal ventrite (Figure 8 (a)).</p><p>Head (Figures 5 (a, c), 6(a)). relatively large, partly retracted into prothorax, narrower than anterior pronotal margin; frons (Figure 5 (a)) deeply depressed, vertex (Figure 6 (a)) depressed, about 0.4 times as wide as width of eye; eyes large, reniform, weakly projecting beyond outline of head, inner margins S-shaped, strongly converging towards vertex and slightly converging towards frons (Figure 5 (a)); sculpture of frons consisting of large, rounded and polygonal cells with small central punctures, vertex with smaller, polygonal ocellation; antennae (Figure 5 (c)) longer than the length of pronotum, reaching midlength of pronotum when laid alongside; scape long, claviform, 3.0 times as long as wide, pedicel suboval about 1.5 times as long as wide, third antennomere claviform, 2.4 times as long as wide, fourth antennomere suboval, 1.6 times as long as wide, antennomeres 5–10 trapezoidal, 1.1–1.2 times as long as wide, terminal antennomere rhomboid, 1.9 times as long as wide.</p><p>Pronotum (Figure 6 (a)). strongly convex, 1.5 times as wide as long, widest near midlength, with wide and shallow lateroposterior depressions; anterior margin widely and shallowly emarginate, front angles protruding to the front slightly; lateral margins angulately rounded; posterior margin bold almost straight, with very dense denticulation, posterior angles obtused. Anterior portion in the middle of pronotum consisting of rounded reticulate cells sculpture without central grains; anterior areas in the lateral sides of pronotum with fine, longitudinal and extruded condition rugae; prescutellar portion with larger, strongly transverse sculpture; lateroposterior portions with large, rounded reticulate cells sculpture without central grains.</p><p>Scutellum (Figure 6 (a)). small, flat, pentagonal and microsculptured, about 1.2 times as wide as long.</p><p>Elytra (Figure 1 (a)). convex, widest behind the base, tapering regularly from humeri to apex, 2.0 times as long as wide; basal, transverse depressions obviously not reaching scutellum; humeral callosities small, not projecting beyond elytral outline; elytral apices rounded, with very fine serrations; elytral sculpture almost homogeneous, consisting of fine, dense, simple punctures.</p><p>Legs (Figures 1 (a, c), 6(b)). relatively long and slender. Protibiae weakly bent inwards, inner margin with a row of setae; mesotibiae and metatibiae (Figure 6 (b)) straight, inner margins with several shallow, preapical, and very fine serrations; outer angles of metacoxae projecting and sharp; tarsomeres 1–4 with adhesive pads; tarsal claws thin, hook-shaped.</p><p>Ventral side (Figures 1 (c), 7(a), 8(a)). lustrous with widely ocellate sculpture and white setae; prosternal process (Figure 7 (a)) widely expanded behind procoxae and sharply pointed apically (apex angle), with two lateral angles at base of apex angle, the inside angle of two lateral angles greater than the apex angle. Anal ventrite (Figure 8 (a)) weakly truncate apically, with very fine serrations and a very small notch at the tip.</p><p>Aedeagus (Figure 9 (a, b)). long, slender, weakly spindle-shaped; apices of parameres sharp and translucent, apical portion of each paramere lateral expand with serrated lateral margin, base of the extension part with a longitudinal translucent stripe and the stripe completely surrounded by the black chitinous part; median lobe sharply pointed apically, without visible lateral serrations.</p><p>Allotype: Variation (Figure 1 (b, d)). length 5.98 mm, width 2.11 mm, length/width ratio: 2.83. Vertex (Figure 6 (c)), 0.4 times as wide as width of eye; antennae (Figure 5 (d)), shorter, equal to the length of pronotum, reaching mid-length of pronotum when laid alongside; scape long, claviform, 2.7 times as long as wide, pedicel suboval about 1.2 times as long as wide, antennomeres 3–10 trapezoidal, 0.7–1.3 times as long as wide, terminal antennomere rounded, as long as wide. Inner margins of eyes not S-shaped, strongly converging towards vertex, but straight along the frons. Pronotum (Figure 6 (c)), 1.6 times as wide as long; scutellum (Figure 6 (c)), about 1.3 times as wide as long; elytra (Figure 1 (b)), 2.0 times as long as wide. Elytra overall wider than male, the bright part of elytra metallic green to metallic yellow. Inner margin of mesotibiae with several shallow, preapical and very fine serrations; inner margin of metatibiae (Figure 6 (d)) without serrations. Anal ventrite (Figure 8 (b)) with a small rounded notch at the tip. For the character of ovipositor, see Figure 9 (c). Apart from the differences described above, the female adult is similar to the male in other external characters, without obvious sexual dimorphism.</p><p>Differential diagnosis</p><p>The new species is most similar to A.  (M.) tamdaoensis Bílý, 1998 (Figure 3), but by a combination of external and genital characters (vide key), it can be clearly distinguished from the related species: (1) pronotum with two large black spots, rather than with two smaller black ones in A. (M.) barbieri Descarpentries, 1958; (2) elytra black to dark violet with a pair of large metallic green semicircular maculae along lateral margins, rather than green-bronze without maculae along lateral margins in A. (M.) angustata Bílý, 2019; (3) anal ventrite weakly truncate apically, with a very small notch at the tip, rather than anal ventrite truncate apically, without a notch at the tip in A. (M.) barbieri; and (4) the portion near apical lateral expand part of paramere slightly narrowed, lateral expand portion with serrated outer margin, rather than the portion near apical lateral expand part of paramere distinctly narrowed in A. (M.) barbieri or the lateral expand portion without serrated outer margin in A. (M.) angustata.</p><p>Etymology</p><p>This species is named after Mr. Yu-Chen Zheng (China  Agricultural University, Beijing, China), who collected and provided the type specimens for our study.</p><p>Distribution</p><p>China (Hainan).</p><p>Biology</p><p>Adults were collected on the flowers of  Maclurodendron oligophlebium ( Rutaceae) (Figure 10) and a certain of  Fagaceae trees, during daytime from April to May.</p><p>Remarks</p><p>This species belongs to the A.  (M.) insulaecola species-group. Currently, the adult variation of this species is unclear due to the limited number of specimens.  Rutaceae is reported as host plant in family level of  Merocratus adult for the first time.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AB87BC0F69FF85B37F024623EDFEEC	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Qi, Zhi-Hao;Zeng, Li-Qiong;Ding, Bi;Zhan, Fang-Fang;Su, Rong-Xiang;Ai, Hong-Mu;Cai, Shou-Ping;Song, Hai-Tian	Qi, Zhi-Hao, Zeng, Li-Qiong, Ding, Bi, Zhan, Fang-Fang, Su, Rong-Xiang, Ai, Hong-Mu, Cai, Shou-Ping, Song, Hai-Tian (2025): Taxonomic notes on Anthaxia subgenus Merocratus Bílý from China (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Buprestinae). Journal of Natural History 59 (5 - 8): 253-270, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2024.2438409, URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2024.2438409
03AB87BC0F67FF85B37B051F2737FC6B.text	03AB87BC0F67FF85B37B051F2737FC6B.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Anthaxia (Merocratus) insulaecola , Obenberger 1944	<div><p>Anthaxia (Merocratus) insulaecola Obenberger, 1944</p><p>(Figures 2, 5 (i–l), 6(i–l), 7(e, f), 8(e, f), 9(g–i))</p><p>Anthaxia insulaecola Obenberger, 1944, p. 134 .</p><p>Anthaxia (Merocratus) insulaecola: Bílý 1989, p. 385.</p><p>Type locality</p><p>China, Taiwan.</p><p>Material examined</p><p>CHINA:  Taiwan Province: 1♀ (CHTS), Taitung County,  Yenping Forest Road [延平林道], alt. 1000 m, 30.V.2013, Wen-I Chou leg.;   2♂♂ (CHTS), Taitung County,  Tungho Township [东河 乡], Doulan Mountain [都兰山], alt. 600 m, 28.VII.2017, Wen-I Chou leg.</p><p>Distribution</p><p>China (Taiwan).</p><p>Biology</p><p>Adults feed on the flowers of various  Fagaceae trees (Ong and Hattori 2019).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AB87BC0F67FF85B37B051F2737FC6B	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Qi, Zhi-Hao;Zeng, Li-Qiong;Ding, Bi;Zhan, Fang-Fang;Su, Rong-Xiang;Ai, Hong-Mu;Cai, Shou-Ping;Song, Hai-Tian	Qi, Zhi-Hao, Zeng, Li-Qiong, Ding, Bi, Zhan, Fang-Fang, Su, Rong-Xiang, Ai, Hong-Mu, Cai, Shou-Ping, Song, Hai-Tian (2025): Taxonomic notes on Anthaxia subgenus Merocratus Bílý from China (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Buprestinae). Journal of Natural History 59 (5 - 8): 253-270, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2024.2438409, URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2024.2438409
03AB87BC0F67FF9AB35607C621BDFE44.text	03AB87BC0F67FF9AB35607C621BDFE44.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Anthaxia (Merocratus) tamdaoensis Bily 1998	<div><p>Anthaxia (Merocratus) tamdaoensis Bílý, 1998</p><p>(Figures 3, 4, 5 (e–h), 6(e–h), 7(c, d), 8(c, d), 9(d–f))</p><p>Anthaxia (Merocratus) tamdaoensis Bílý, 1998, p. 131 .</p><p>Type localiy</p><p>Vietnam, Vinh Phuc Province, Tam Dao.</p><p>Material examined</p><p>CHINA: Yunnan Province: 1♀ (KIZ), <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=101.099335&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=22.649666" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 101.099335/lat 22.649666)">Pu’er City</a>, Jiangcheng County, 28.IV.1982, Wan He leg.;   1♂, 1♀ (CHTS), Pu’er City, Simao District, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=101.099335&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=22.649666" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 101.099335/lat 22.649666)">Yixiang Township</a> [倚象镇], <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=101.099335&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=22.649666" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 101.099335/lat 22.649666)">Yingpanshan</a> [营盘 山], 22°38 ʹ 58.8”N, 101°5 ʹ 57.6”E, alt. 1600 m, 1–3.V.2012, Gui-Qiang Huang &amp; Li-Chao Tian leg. ;  1♂, 1♀ (CHTS), same data as for the preceding but 3.V.2013, Gui-Qiang Huang leg.;  1♀ (CHTS), same data as for the preceding but 30.IV.2014;  5♂♂ (CHTS), same data as for the preceding but 1.V.2014;   1♀ (CHTS), Xishuangbanna, Jinghong City, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=101.099335&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=22.649666" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 101.099335/lat 22.649666)">Dadugang Township</a> [大渡岗乡], <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=101.099335&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=22.649666" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 101.099335/lat 22.649666)">Jieji village</a> [结基村], 28.IV.2014, Gui-Qiang Huang leg. ;   1♂, 1♀ (CHTS), Pu’er City, Simao District, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=101.099335&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=22.649666" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 101.099335/lat 22.649666)">Laiyanghe</a> [莱阳河], alt. 1500 m, 11–13.V.2018, Jian-Yue Qiu &amp; Hao Xu leg.</p><p>Distribution</p><p>China (Yunnan); Vietnam; Laos.</p><p>Biology</p><p>Adults of A.  (M.) tamdaoensis were collected on the flowers of  Lithocarpus sp. ( Fagaceae) (Figure 10), during daytime from April to May.</p><p>Remarks</p><p>The specimens from Yunnan was confirmed as A.  (M.) tamdaoensis by Bílý in 2020 after Song provided pictures of the male genitalia. A male specimen has been donated to the National Museum (Prague, Czech Republic).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AB87BC0F67FF9AB35607C621BDFE44	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Qi, Zhi-Hao;Zeng, Li-Qiong;Ding, Bi;Zhan, Fang-Fang;Su, Rong-Xiang;Ai, Hong-Mu;Cai, Shou-Ping;Song, Hai-Tian	Qi, Zhi-Hao, Zeng, Li-Qiong, Ding, Bi, Zhan, Fang-Fang, Su, Rong-Xiang, Ai, Hong-Mu, Cai, Shou-Ping, Song, Hai-Tian (2025): Taxonomic notes on Anthaxia subgenus Merocratus Bílý from China (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Buprestinae). Journal of Natural History 59 (5 - 8): 253-270, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2024.2438409, URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2024.2438409
03AB87BC0F78FF9AB29B05CD27B5FADC.text	03AB87BC0F78FF9AB29B05CD27B5FADC.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Anthaxia Bily 1989	<div><p>Key to known species of subgenus  Merocratus from China</p><p>1. Pronotum metallic orange or metallic yellow with two smaller, black, more or less rounded spots not narrowed posteriorly, the range begins at the anterior margin and does not exceed 2/3 of the anterior of pronotum (Figure 6 (i, k)); elytra almost monochromatic, without two semicircular metallic green maculae along lateral margins (Figure 2 (a, b)) ........................... ........................... A.  (M.) insulaecola Obenberger 1944</p><p>− Pronotum metallic green with two larger, black, more or less triangular spots narrowed posteriorly, the range begins at the anterior margin and exceeds 2/3 of the anterior of pronotum (Figure 6 (a, c, e, g)); elytra almost bicolour, with two semicircular metallic green maculae along lateral margins (Figures 1 (a, b), 3(a, b)) .......................... 2</p><p>2. Lateral margins of pronotum widens and narrows irregularly, widest near sixth of the base or near midlength (Figure 6 (e, g)); terminal part of elytra without two broad longitudinal metallic green stripes (Figure 3 (a, b)); abdomen metallic green (Figure 3 (c, d)); aedeagus broader, apical portion of each paramere expand slightly (Figure 9 (d, e)) ................................................... ................................................... A.  (M.) tamdaoensis Bílý, 1998</p><p>− Lateral margins of pronotum widens and narrows regularly, widest near midlength (Figure 6 (a, c)); terminal part of elytra with two broad longitudinal metallic green stripes along the suture (Figure 1 (a, b)); abdomen nearly black (Figure 1 (c, d)); aedeagus slender, apical portion of each paramere expand strongly (Figure 9 (a, b)) .. ............................................................................................ A.  (M.) zhengyucheni Qi &amp; Song,  sp. n.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AB87BC0F78FF9AB29B05CD27B5FADC	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Qi, Zhi-Hao;Zeng, Li-Qiong;Ding, Bi;Zhan, Fang-Fang;Su, Rong-Xiang;Ai, Hong-Mu;Cai, Shou-Ping;Song, Hai-Tian	Qi, Zhi-Hao, Zeng, Li-Qiong, Ding, Bi, Zhan, Fang-Fang, Su, Rong-Xiang, Ai, Hong-Mu, Cai, Shou-Ping, Song, Hai-Tian (2025): Taxonomic notes on Anthaxia subgenus Merocratus Bílý from China (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Buprestinae). Journal of Natural History 59 (5 - 8): 253-270, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2024.2438409, URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2024.2438409
