Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) schah
Creators: name: Baiocchi, Daniele
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Anthaxia
Anthaxia schah

description: Key to species of the Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) schah species-group
1 Anal ventrite without a notch............................................................................ 2
- Anal ventrite notched.................................................................................. 4
2 Head and pronotum concolourous, bright green to golden green; pronotum with two variable dark discal maculae; antennae blueish-black; elytra with green or golden basal colouration, the rest widely suffused with golden-red to deep red-purple tinge (Figs. 1, 13); aedeagus slender (Figs. 71, 76), about 6 times longer than wide....... A. (H.) schah Abeille de Perrin, 1904 ♂
- Entire body dark bronze, or copper-brown with occasional reddish or greenish lustre; pronotum with two indistinct dark discal maculae............................................................................................. 3
3 Body slender (Fig. 7, 21), proportionally longer (average length to width ratio: 3 times longer than wide); antennae black; frons (Fig. 39) and anterior part of pronotum with reddish or greenish lustre; pronotum weakly transversal, 1.3 times wider than long; legs slender, meso- and metatibiae weaker, straight or very slightly sinuate on inner side, with a strong, inner apical spur; tarsomeres moderately wide; claws long; elytral apices separately, regularly rounded; aedeagus proportionally shorter (Figs. 74, 79), stouter, about 4.7 times longer than wide; ventral surface sexually dichromatic, bright green with golden lustre (Fig. 22)......................................................................... .. A. (H.) naviauxi Bílý, 1995 ♂
- Body more stout (Figs. 8, 17), proportionally shorter (average length to width ratio: 2.7 times longer than wide); antennae blueish-black; frons with or without green tinge (Fig. 37); pronotum more transverse, 1.4 times wider than long; legs somewhat stouter and more sinuate on inner side, metatibiae rather widened, tarsomeres narrow; claws short; elytral apices separately, angularly rounded; aedeagus proportionally longer (Figs. 72, 77), slender, about 6 times longer than wide; ventral surface not sexually dichromatic, reddish bronze to greenish bronze.................. A. (H.) wethloi Obenberger, 1904 ♂
4 Body partially or completely green, with two dark pronotal spots................................................ 5
- Entire body dark bronze or copper-brown with reddish or greenish lustre; pronotum with two indistinct discal maculae.....7
5 Body colouration blackish-green, bluish-green or bright green, only rarely coppery (Figs. 25, 89, 90, 91); head and pronotum occasionally very dark, nearly black; antennae slender, black (Figs. 48, 53); elytra sometimes with slight golden lustre; pronotum distinctly sinuately narrowed posterior to mid length; anal ventrite with a narrow notch in both sexes (Figs. 66, 67)..................................................................................... A. (H.) cadusiana sp. nov.
- Head and pronotum concolourous, bright green to golden green with two variable dark pronotal spots; elytra with golden green basal colouration, the rest with reddish to deep red-purple tinge; pronotum rather rectilinearly narrowed posterior to mid length; anal ventrite with rather wider notch................................................................6
6 Elytra more subparallel, almost completely green with slight golden lustre (Fig. 88), or widely suffused with a strong goldenred tinge (Fig. 86); antennae green; male antennomeres (Fig. 45) greatly expanded, mostly subtrapezoidal, asymmetrically widened on both sides; female antennomeres (Fig. 50) less enlarged than in the male, with inner side not acutely angled, only antennomeres 5–7 slightly widened also on outer side; anal notch present in both sexes (Figs. 60, 61), quadrangular, that of the
female wider than in A. (H.) schah (Fig.63)............................................... A. (H.) elamita sp. nov. - Elytra slightly more narrowed at mid length (Fig. 15), green basally, the rest usually with dark golden or deep red-purple tinge; antennae dark green (Fig. 51), enlarged only on inner side; antennomeres subtriangular, with inner angles rather acutely shaped, usually more compactly assembled and slightly less widened than in A. (H.) elamita (Fig. 50); anal notch narrower (Fig. 63).............................................................. A. (H.) schah Abeille de Perrin, 1904 ♀
7 Body proportionally longer (Fig. 23), more slender (average length to width ratio: 3 times longer than wide); pronotum slightly less transverse, about 1.3 times wider than long; legs more slender, tarsomeres moderately wide; elytral apices separately, regularly rounded; ventral surface sexually dichromatic, bronze with slight reddish-green lustre (Fig. 24)................................................................................................ .. A. (H.) naviauxi Bílý, 1995 ♀
- Body proportionally shorter (Fig. 19), stouter (average length to width ratio: 2.7 times longer than wide); pronotum slightly more transverse, about 1.4 times wider than long; legs somewhat stouter, metatibiae slightly wider, tarsomeres narrower; elytral apices separately, angularly rounded; ventral surface not sexually dichromatic, reddish bronze to greenish bronze (Fig. 20)........................................................................ A. (H.) wethloi Obenberger, 1904 ♀
description: Published as part of Baiocchi, Daniele, 2015, A revision of the Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) schah Abeille de Perrin, 1904 species-group, with description of two new species from Iran (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Anthaxiini), pp. 57-91 in Zootaxa 3918 (1) on pages 62-63, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3918.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/287844