Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) komareki Obenberger, 1931

Bílý, Svatopluk, 2020, A revision of the Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) dispar Kerremans species-group (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Anthaxiini), Zootaxa 4851 (3), pp. 522-534 : 528-529

Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) komareki Obenberger, 1931

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Anthaxia komareki Obenberger, 1931: 111 . Stat. rev. (not syn. of Anthaxia (H.) pilifrons Kerremans ).

Type locality: Salisbury [ Zimbabwe, Harare] .

Anthaxia komareki: Bílý, 1985: 37 (taxonomy, syn. of pilifrons ); 1995: 50 (taxonomy, as syn. of pilifrons ); 1997: 32, 84 (catalogue, as syn. of pilifrons ); Bellamy, 2008: 1448 (catalogue, as syn. of pilifrons ).

Type specimen studied. Holotype (male, NMPC): “Salisbury // Anthaxia Komareki m. Type [h], Det. Dr. Obenberger [p] // TYPUS [p, red, framed] // Mus. Nat. Pragae Inv. 22764 [p, h, orange]”.

Diagnosis. Small (4.8 mm), head and pronotum dark bronze, almost black, elytra bronze; frons with rather long, white pubescence, elytra and lateral sides of pronotum with long, yellow-brown pubescence; ventral surface almost black with long, recumbent, yellow-white pubescence; body elongate, elytra weakly wedge-shaped, not caudiform; aedeagus ( Fig. 20 ) short, spindle-shaped, weakly sclerotised.

Differential diagnosis. Anthaxia (H.) komareki differs from the very similar species, A. (H.) pilifrons , by the wider vertex, convex pronotum without lateroposterior depressions, shorter distal antennomeres of male which are much wider than long, by the different aedeagus ( Fig. 20 ) and other characters given in the key.

Distribution: Zimbabwe.

I erroneously synonymised this species with Anthaxia (H.) pilifrons when I had for study only the holotypes of both species ( Bílý, 1985). Now when I have had a chance to study more specimens of A. (H.) pilifrons I have changed my opinion and I suppose A. (H.) komareki to be a distinct species although very similar to A. (H.) pilifrons (see the key).

Figures

FIGS. 1–9. Historical types. 1—Anthaxia dispar Kerremans, 1898, holotype, female 7.1 mm; 2—A. hyperlasia Obenberger, 1928, holotype, female, 8.9 mm; 3—A. komareki Obenberger, 1931, holotype, male, 4.8 mm; 4—A. lasioptera Obenberger, 1915, holotype, female, 7.3 mm; 5—A. pilifrons Kerremans, 1898, holotype, male, 7.5 mm; 6—A. vulpes Théry, 1930, holotype, female, 7.2 mm, © MNHN; 7—Anthaxia (Haplathaxia) aethiopica sp. nov., holotype, male, 5.7 mm; 8—A. (H.) caerulea sp. nov., holotype, male, 8.6 mm; 9—A. (H.) dispar Kerremans, 1898, (RSA, Limpopo), male, 7.6 mm.

FIGS. 16–22. Aedeagi (not in scale). 16—Anthaxia (Haplathaxia) aethiopica sp. nov., holotype; 17—A. (H.) caerulea sp. nov., holotype; 18—A. (H.) dispar Kerremans, 1898 (RSA, Limpopo); 19—A. (H.) keniae Théry, 1941 (Kenya, Kiserian); 20—A. (H.) komareki Obenberger, 1931, holotype; 21—A. (H.) occidentalis sp. nov., holotype; 22—A. (H.) pilifrons Kerremans, 1898, holotype.