Anthaxia (Anthaxia) anadyomene, Bílý, Svatopluk & Kubá, Vít, 2004

Bílý, Svatopluk & Kubá, Vít, 2004, Two new species of Anthaxia Eschscholtz, 1829 from the A. salicis (Fabricius, 1776) species­group (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), Zootaxa 771, pp. 1-8 : 3-5

Anthaxia (Anthaxia) anadyomene n. sp.

( Figs 1 , 6, 7, 10 )

Type material. Holotype ɗ ( NMPC): ” CHYPRE PLATRES 7 VI [19]93 [p] \ HOLOTY­ PUS Anthaxia (s. str.) anadyomene n. sp. Bílý & Kubáň det., 2004 [p]”; allotype ( NMPC): [CW] Cyprus, [Troodos Mts.,] Perapedi Dam [34°51’N 32°52’E], 24.v.­11.vi.1994; paratypes (3 ɗɗ 1 Ψ): 1 ɗ ( TICB), same data as allotype; 1 ɗ ( NMPC): same data except Perapedi [34°51’N 32°52’E], 800­1000 m, 19.v.2000, R. Alexis leg.; 1 ɗ 1 Ψ ( MKCN): same data except Kykko [monastery, 35°00’N 32°44’E, ~ 1050 m], 5.­7.vi.1993, M. Kafka leg.

Type locality. CW Cyprus, Troodos Mts., Pano Platres, 34°52’N 32°52’E.

Diagnosis. Medium­sized, rather stout and covex species ( Fig. 1 ); frons golden green, vertex dark blue to black, pronotum and basal fourth of elytra blue­green, rest of elytra purple; pronotum with two large, black spots, scutellum black with green lustre; antennae and legs black, ventral side dark blue­green, abdominal ventrites nearly black with golden reflections laterally; head with rather long, errected, white pubescence, pronotum and elytra with short, semierrected white pubescence; ventral side with short and sparse white pubescence which is denser and longer on metacoxae and metafemora; generally this species resembles small, convex and mat specimens of Anthaxia salicis .

Description of the holotype. Head relatively small, frons slightly depressed medially, vertex flat; eyes large, reniform but not projecting beyond outline of head, vertex as wide as width of eye; sculpture of head consisting of large, polygonal cells with small, nearly indistinct central grains, cells on vertex slightly longitudinally prolonged; antennae relatively short, not reaching posterior pronotal angles; 1st antennomere clubbed, three times as long as wide, 2nd antennomere pear­shaped, twice as long as wide, 3rd antennomere slightly triangular, 2.50 times as long as wide; antennomeres 4–10 triangular, as wide as long, terminal antennomere ovoid.

Pronotum 2.01 times as wide as long, slightly and regularly convex, laterobasal pronotal depressions nearly indistinct; anterior margin strongly, posterior margin slightly bisinuous; lateral margins nearly regularly rounded, maximum pronotal width just anteriad of its midlength; pronotal sculpture consisting of bilateral, fountain­like sculpture ( Fig. 7 ) composed of rather rough, arched wrinkles on prescutellar part of pronotum; lateral parts of pronotum with large, polygonal cells with distinct central grains, cells laterally of fountain­like sculpture longitudinally prolonged and branched; anterior part of pronotum (just posteriad of medial lobe) consisting of slightly transversely enlarged cells with small central grains. Scutellum nearly triangular, as long as wide, microsculptured and slightly convex.

Elytra 1.62 times as long as wide, rather robust and regularly convex, slightly but distinctly enlarged at posterior 2/3; apical third of elytral margin finely but distinctly serrate, each elytron separately, obtusely rounded; humeral swellings small but well­developed, transverse basal depression complete, reaching scutellum; elytral epipleura well­developed but not reaching elytral apex; elytral sculpture dense and rough laterally, sparser and finer on elytral disc, consisting of rough punctures and short, transverse wrinkles; flat elytral depressions characteristic for the whole A. salicis species­group only weakly developed.

Ventral side lustrous, prosternum widely ocellate with tiny central grains, metasternum very finely ocellate with indistinct central grains, ventrites finely reticulate; anal ventrite regularly rounded apically with indistinct lateral, preapical serration. legs relatively short, meso­ and metatibiae with fine and regular, inner serration in distal half ( Fig. 6 ). Claws small, hook­shaped, slightly enlarged at base.

Aedeagus ( Fig. 10 ) only weakly sclerotised, basal part of parameres becoming slightly wider from base to 1/3, than strongly narrowed.

Female. Female differs from male by somewhat stouter body, completely dark blue head, somewhat wider vertex (1.20 times as wide as width of eye) and by simple meso­ and metatibiae.

Measurements. Length: 5.0– 6.5 mm (holotype 5.0 mm); width: 2.0– 2.7 mm (holotype 2.0 mm).

Variability. No variability was observed in colouration except for the different colouration of the frons in male and female (see above). Ratio of width to length of pronotum in all type specimens varies between 1.95 and 2.18, ratio of elytral length to width between 1.56 and 1.63.

Etymology. The Greek name ” Anadyomene ” (emerging) was an epithet of the godness Aphrodyte born on Cyprus.

Distribution. Central western Cyprus.

Differential diagnosis. They are only a few species of the Anthaxia salicis speciesgroup with completely blue­green elytral base: A. permisa Abeille de Perrin, 1904 (type Ψ in MNCN), A. shirasensis Obenberger, 1940 (type ɗ in NMPC) and A. herbertschmidi Novak, 1992 (we have studied only 1 Ψ from the type locality: Turkey, Termessos from MNCA). The blue­green basal part of elytra of the specimen of A. herbertschmidi is large, covering the basal third of elytra and the purple colouration of the posterior part of elytra is prolonged anteriad along the elytral suture. The basal, blue­green field of A. anadyomene n. sp. is limited only to the anterior elytral fourth covering the humeral swellings and being slightly prolonged behind the humeri along elytral margins. The purple colouration of the elytra is not prolonged anteriad along the suture, being truncate or slightly concave anteriorly. Besides its colouration, A. anadyomene n. sp. differs from these other species by the mat and rather stout body, pronotal sculpture and different male genitalia. It is rather similar to A. herbertschmidi from which it differs by the simply rounded anal sternite and elytral apex of the female and by the form of the male metatibiae and genitalia (see ” Note ”) below.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 3. 1 — Anthaxia (Anthaxia) anadyomene n. sp., holotype, male, 5.0 mm; 2 — A. (A.) syriaca n. sp., holotype, male, 4.9 mm; 3 — A. (A.) herbertschmidi Novak, female (type locality), 5.1 mm.

FIGURES 4 – 11. 4 — male metatibia of Anthaxia (Anthaxia) herbertschmidi Novak; 5 — the same, A. (A.) syriaca n. sp.; 6 — the same, A. (A.) anadyomene n. sp.; 7 — pronotal sculpture of A. (A.) anadyomene n. sp.; 8 — the same, A. (A.) syriaca n. sp.; 9 — the same, A. (A.) herbertschmidi; 10 — aedeagus of A. (A.) anacyomene n. sp. (holotype); 11 — the same, A. (A.) syriaca n. sp. (holotype).