Anthaxia (Melanthaxia) neofunerula Obenberger, 1942

Bílý, Svatopluk & Kubáň, Vítězslav, 2010, A study on the Nearctic species of the genus Anthaxia (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Buprestinae: Anthaxiini). Subgenus Melanthaxia. Part I, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 50 (2), pp. 535-546 : 538-539

Anthaxia (Melanthaxia) neofunerula Obenberger, 1942 species-group

( Figs. 1 , 15, 23 )

Diagnosis. Medium-sized (4.3 mm), black, matt, convex species ( Fig. 15); frons with very short, poorly visible, recumbent pubescence; elytra asetose; elytral sculpture consisting of fine, longitudinal rugae on very finely microsculptured background; frons flat; vertex about twice as wide as width of eye; pronotal sculpture homogenous, consisting of fine, regular polygonal cells without distinct central grains; pronotum at midlength usually with four more or less distinct, rounded foveae; apical third of elytral margins and anal ventrite without lateral serration; male meso- and metatrochanters without spines; male meso- and metatibiae with nearly indistinct, inner, preapical serration; aedeagus short, spindle-shaped ( Fig. 1 ).

Representatives of this species-group resemble some species of the A. (M.) quadripunctata (Linnaeus, 1758) species-group from the Palaearctic region differing from them by the finer, more homogenous pronotal sculpture and by the shorter aedeagus with apically narrowed median lobe ( Fig. 1 ).

Species included. Anthaxia (M.) neofunerula Obenberger, 1942 .

Figures

Figs. 1–5. Male genitalia. 1 – Anthaxia (Melanthaxia) neofunerula Obenberger, 1942, holotype, New Hampshire, Charlestown (NMPC); 2 – A. (M.) nanula Casey, 1884, California, Palomar Mts (NMPC).; 3 – A. (M.) prasina Horn, 1882, California, Shingletown (); 4 – A. (M.) leechi Cobos, 1958, holotype, Califormia, Riverside (California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco); 5 – A. (M.) oregonensis Obenberger, 1942, syntype, Oregon, Aspen Lake (NMPC).

Figs. 23–30. Pronotal sculpture. 23 – Anthaxia (Melanthaxia) neofunerula Obenberger, 1942, holotype, New Hamp-shire, Charlestown; 24 – A. (M.) nanula Casey, 1884, California, Palomar Mts.; 25 – A. (M.) prasina Horn, 1882, California, Shingletown; 26 – A. (M.) leechi Cobos, 1958, California, near Hemet; 27 – A. (M.) oregonensis Obenberger, 1942, California, Riverside; 28 – A. (M.) strigata LeConte, 1859, California, E of Stockton; 29 – A. (M.) californica Obenberger, 1914, California, Palomar Mts.; 30 – A. (M.) aeneogaster Gory & Laporte, 1839, California, Mukelumne River.