Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) pilifrons Kerremans, 1898

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

Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) pilifrons Kerremans, 1898

( Figs. 5 , 15 , 22 , 28 )

Anthaxia pilifrons Kerremans, 1898: 299 .

Type locality: Lake Moero [Lake Mweru, Zambia] .

Anthaxia pilifrons: Kerremans, 1903: 172 (taxonomy); 1909: 26 (catalogue); 1910: 544 (taxonomy, faunistics); 1912: 454 (catalogue); 1913: 578 (taxonomy); 1914: 349 (catalogue); Obenberger, 1915: 80 (taxonomy); Schouteden, 1916: 329 (catalogue); Obenberger, 1917: 181, 186 (monograph, key); Kerremans, 1918: 303 (taxonomy, faunistics); Obenberger, 1930: 544 (catalogue); Burgeon, 1941: 191 (catalogue); Ferreira, 1963: 411 (catalogue); Bílý, 1985: 37 (taxonomy); 1997: 32, 104 (catalogue); Bellamy, 2008: 1448 (catalogue).

Type specimen studied. Holotype (male, BMNH): “ L. Moero, J. Duvivier [h] // Type [p, red-ramed, rounded // pilifrons Kerr. , Type [h] // Kerremans. 1903–59 [p]”.

Further specimens studied. MOZAMBIQUE: N. W. Rhodesia [Mozambique]: Caia, 19.ix.19010, H. Swale (1 female, BMNH) ; Mutantis , 28.iv.1913, H. C. Dollmaan (1 female, BMNH) ; NW Rhodesia, Mgwengwe , 27 o 40’E 13 oS, 9.iv.1914, H. C. Dollman (2 females, NMPC) ; ZAMBIA: Mayukuyuku , Kafue NM, S14 o 54’55” E26 o 03’47”, 1080 m, 9.–11.iv.2014, General coll., leg. Smith R., Takano H., Chmurova L. & Smith L. (1 female, BMNH) ;

Diagnosis. Medium-sized (6.1–7.8 mm), dark bronze, frons with short, erect, yellow-brown pubescence, lateral sides of pronotum and elytra with long, rusty pubescence; elytra rather strongly wedge-shaped, often weakly caudiform; ventral surface bronze with short, white, recumbent pubescence; aedeagus ( Fig. 22 ) long, almost parallel-sided at basal two thirds, parameres without preapical spines.

Differential diagnosis. Anthaxia pilifrons is very similar to A. komareki from which it differs by the narrower vertex, shallow lateroposterior depressions, longer anntennomeres of male and by the shape of male genitalia (see also key and A. komareki ).

Distribution: Mozambique, Zambia.

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. 10–15. Habitus.10—A. (H.) dispar, female (RSA, Mpumalanga), 7.7 mm; 11—A. (H.) dispar (RSA, Limpopo), male, lateral view, 7.6 mm; 12—A. (H.) keniae Théry, 1941 (Kenya, Kiserian), male, 5.9 mm; 13—A. (H.) occidentalis sp. nov., holotype, male, 7.8 mm; 14—the same, allotype, female, 7.6 mm; 15—A. (H.) pilifrons Kerremans, 1898, (Zambia, Kafue), female, 7.3 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.

FIGS. 23–28. Male metatibiae (not in scale). 23—Anthaxia (Haplathaxia) aethiopica sp. nov., holotype; 24—A. (H.) caerulea sp. nov., holotype; 25—A. (H.) dispar Kerremans, 1898 (RSA, Limpopo); 26—A. (H.) keniae Théry, 1941 (Kenya, Kiserian); 27—A. (H.) occidentalis sp. nov., holotype; 28—A. (H.) pilifrons Kerremans, 1898, holotype.