Anthaxia (Melanthaxia) prasina Horn, 1882

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 : 539

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5326225

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5346229

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D90387C8-8D07-D248-FE82-FC5837E4E8CB

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scientific name

Anthaxia (Melanthaxia) prasina Horn, 1882
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Anthaxia (Melanthaxia) prasina Horn, 1882 View in CoL species-group

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Diagnosis. Medium-sized (3.6–6.1 mm), convex, stout, matt species with silky lustre; dorsal surface bronze, blue, blue-green, rarely dark bronze; frons convex, rarely flat, always with dark, erect pubescence; vertex about twice as wide as width of eye; pronotal sculpture nearly homogenous, consisting of polygonal cells without or with poorly developed central grains; elytra 1.6–1.8 times as long as wide; elytral sculpture consisting of sparse, simple punctures; elytral pubescence well-developed or elytra mostly asetose except for very short, indistinct pubescence at apical third; male meso- and metatrochanters unarmed or with very small spine ( Fig. 13 View Figs ); male meso- and metatibiae with fine, inner preapical serration; posterior third of lateral elytral margins and lateral margins of anal ventrite very finely serrate; aedeagus moderately long, parameres usually weakly widened at basal half or nearly subparallel ( Fig. 3 View Figs ).

Species included. Anthaxia (M.) aenescens Casey, 1884 , A. (M.) prasina Horn, 1882 , A. (M.) subprasina Cobos, 1958 .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Buprestidae

Genus

Anthaxia

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