Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) mashuna Obenberger, 1931

Bílý, Svatopluk & Sakalian, Vladimir P., 2014, A revision of the Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) mashuna species-group (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Buprestinae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 54 (2), pp. 605-621 : 615-616

Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) mashuna Obenberger, 1931

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Anthaxia mashuna Obenberger, 1931: 108 . Type locality: ދ Mashonaland: Mazoë [ Zimbabwe, Mashonaland Central Prov., Mazowe, approx. 17°31ƍS 30°58ƍE]ތ.

Anthaxia (Anthaxia) mashuna: BÍLÝ (1996) : 22 (synonymy).

Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) mashuna: BÍLÝ (1997) : 28, 91 (catalogue); BELLAMY (2008): 1424 (catalogue).

Anthaxia chalcogenioides Burgeon, 1941: 190 . Type localities: ދ Welgelegen [nowadays Lumata, 12°04ƍ60ƎS, 27°31ƍ08ƎE]; Lubombo [11°10ƍ60ƎS, 27°55ƍ00ƎE]ތ. Both localites are situated in the Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Anthaxia (Anthaxia) chalcogenioides: BÍLÝ (1996) : 22 (synonym of A. mashuna ).

Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) chalcogenioides: BÍLÝ (1997) : 28, 91 (catalogue, as synonym of A. mashuna ); BELLAMY (2008): 1424 (catalogue, as synonym of A. mashuna ).

Type material examined. Anthaxia mashuna : LECTOTYPE (here designated): J, ދ Mashonaland [h] // TYPUS [red,

p] // Mus. Nat. Pragae, Inv. 22763 [orange, p+h] // Anthaxia mashuna m. Type, Det. Dr. Obenberger [p+h]ތ ( NMPC).

PARALECTOTYPE: J, ދ Mashonaland, Mazoë, Dez. 1905 (G. A. Marshall) // Syntype [blue, round, p] // Type [red, p] //

1906-182 // Anthaxia mashuna m.Type,Det. Dr. Obenberger [p+h]ތ ( BMNH). Anthaxia chalcogenioides : SYNTYPES:

1 ♀, ދ Musée du Congo, Welgelegen, Jan. 1912 [p] // Holotypus [red, p] // Anthaxia pilifrons Kerr. [h] // Anthaxia chalcogenioides Type Burg. [h] // R. DÉT.A 57 [p]ތ ( MRAC); 1J, ދ Musée du Congo, Katanga: Lubombo, xii.1928, Ch. Seydel, c. 1951 [p+h] // Paratype [red, p] // Lubombo, Décbre 1929, Ch. Seydel [p] // C. 1951 [h]ތ ( MRAC); 1 J, ދ Musée du Congo, Katanga: Lubombo, xii.1929, Ch. Seydel [p+h] // Paratype [red, p]ތ ( MRAC).

Additional material examined. DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: KATANGA: Elisabethville [= Lubumbashi], viii.1924, 1 ♀, C. Seydel leg. ( NMPC) . KENYA: EASTERN PROVINCE: Kibwezi , 3.xii.1928, 1 ♀, BM 1933- 453 [the BM number refers to the entry that the specimen was presented to BMNH by Lord Rothschild] ( BMNH) . MALAWI: CENTRAL REGION: 20 km NW Dedza , 14.17 S, 34.11 E, 14.–15.i.1985, 1♀, Bellamy & al. leg. ( NMPC) . MOZAMBIQUE: TETE /ZAMBESIA PROVINCES: Zambezi , 1 ♀ ( BMNH) . TANZANIA: NJOMBE REGION: Mތ Pala region , 1 J, R. P. Guillmé leg. ( NMPC) . ZAMBIA: CENTRAL PROVINCE: Kapiri 60 km NW, Mposhi , 8.xii.2002, 1 J, J. Halada leg. ( MKNC) ; same data but 15.–18.i.2003, 1 ♀, A. Kudrna leg. ( MKNC) ; Serenje 15 km E, Kalwa farm, 19.–22.xii.2009, 1430 m, 1♀, M. BednaĜík leg. ( NMPC). NORTHERN PROVINCE: Abercorn [= Mbala], 15.xii.1943, 2 JJ, 2.iii.1948, 1J 1 ♀, H. J. Brédo leg. ( NMPC). NORTH- WESTERN PROVINCE: Kasempa 27 km N, 10.xii.2004, 1 ♀ ( MKNC) ; Solwezi 40 km SSW, 8.xii.2004, 3JJ 1♀, Snížek & Tichý leg. ( MKNC) . ZIMBABWE: ދ Mashonaland ތ, 1 ♀ (possibly syntype of A. mashuna, BMNH ). MASHONALAND CENTRAL PROVINCE: Mazoe [= Mazowe], 27.ii.1929, 1 ♀, W. J. Hall leg. ( NMPC) .

Redescription. Size 7.3–10.5 mm; body conspicuously wedge-shaped, bronze with strong silky lustre ( Fig. 4 ); frons flat, scutellum concave, usually also with 1–2 deep punctures; pronotal disc with short, transverse rugae which are bent posteriorly on the prescutellar region; maximum pronotal width at midlength; elytra regularly convex, twice as long as wide, nearly regularly tapering posteriorly from humeri to apex; elytral epipleura narrow, parallel-sided, nearly reaching elytral apex; elytral sculpture homogeneous, consisting of ¿ne, dense, very short, transverse rugae; anal ventrite relatively ¿nely serrate laterally, widely truncate apically; male metatibiae – Fig. 24 ; aedeagus long, strikingly narrowed posteriorly, parameres with one pair of blister-like, ventral knolls in posterior third ( Fig. 13 ).

Distribution.? Botswana ( BELLAMY 2008), Democratic Republic of the Congo (OBENBER- GER 1931), Kenya (new country record), Malawi (new country record), Mozambique (new country record), Tanzania (new country record), Zambia (new country record), Zimbabwe (new country record). BELLAMY (2008) recorded this species also from Botswana, however, without any citation.

Remarks. OBENBERGER (1931) did not mention how many specimens he used for description of A. mashuna therefore we designate the male specimen from NMPC (Inv. No. 22763) as the lectotype and the male from BMNH as the paralectotype to conserve identity of this species. The female from Zimbabwe bearing the same label as the lectotype (BMNH) is most probably also a syntype but it lacks any label indicating this fact.

OBENBERGER (1931) compared A. mashuna with A. albovillosa Kerremans, 1913 but the latter belongs to the A. (H.) thunbergi Gory & Laporte, 1839 species-group which was de¿ned and revised recently by BÍLÝ & KUBÁĕ (2010).

Figures

Figs 1–6. Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) mashuna Obenberger, 1931 species-group, dorsal aspects. 1 – A. (H.) convexiptera sp. nov., holotype, male, 7.8 mm; 2 – A. (H.) ennediana Descarpentries & Mateu, 1965, male (Kenya: Nguni), 8.2 mm; 3 – A. (H.) jendeki sp. nov., holotype, male, 9.2 mm; 4 – A. (H.) mashuna Obenberger, 1931, male (Zambia: Abercorn), 9.4 mm; 5 – A. (H.) nigroaenea sp. nov., holotype, male, 11.2 mm; 6 – A. (H.) puchneri sp. nov., holotype, male, 8.0 mm.

Figs 13– 26. 13–15 – male genitalia (a – dorsal, b – lateral, c – ventral). 13 – Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) mashuna Obenberger, 1931, lectotype; 14 – A. (H.) ennediana Descarpentries & Mateu, 1965 (Kenya: Nguni); 15 – A. (H.) patrizii Théry, 1938 (Egypt:Wadi Jimal).16–19 – anal ventrites (not to scale). 16 – A. (H.) jendeki sp. nov., holotype, male; 17 – A. (H.) jendeki sp. nov., allotype, female; 18 – A. (H.) nigroaenea sp. nov., allotype, female; 19 – A. (H.) convexiptera sp. nov., allotype, female.20–26 – male metatibiae. 20 – A. (H.) jendeki sp. nov., holotype; 21 – A. (H.) nigroaenea sp. nov., holotype; 22 – A. (H.) convexiptera sp. nov., holotype; 23 – A. (H.) puchneri sp. nov., holotype; 24 – A. (H.) mashuna Obenberger, 1931, lectotype; 25 – A. (H.) ennediana Descarpentries & Mateu, 1965 (Kenya: Nguni); 26 – A. (H.) patrizii Théry, 1938 (Egypt: Wadi Jimal).