Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) kheiliana
Creators: name: Ỹ, Svatopluk Bíl
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Anthaxia
Anthaxia kheiliana

description: Key to species of the Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) kheiliana species-group
1 Slender, bronze, frons of male green, frons of female bronze, posterior pronotal angles red-bronze; vertex as wide as width of eye; pronotum as wide as elytra, 1.6–1.7 times as wide as long, lateral pronotal margins nearly straight; elytra twice as long as wide; male metatibiae (Fig. 12); aedeagus (Fig. 17); 5.0– 7.6 mm; Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya ..................................................................... ....................................................................................... A. teloukatiae Descarpentries & Bruneau de Miré
- Short, robust, often wedge-shaped, black, dark bronze or bronze; frons of both sexes concolorous; vertex 0.6–0.8 times as wide as width of eye; pronotum distinctly wider than elytra, 1.8–2.2 times as wide as long, lateral pronotal margins widely rounded; elytra short, uneven, 1.7–1.8 times as long as wide.......2
2 Frons only slightly convex with relatively short white pubescence; pronotum 1.8–1.9 times as wide as long, elytra only slightly wedge-shaped, apical 1/3 of elytral margins with fine serration; male metatibiae (Fig. 7); aedeagus without dorsal fields of bristles (Fig. 13); 5.5–6.2 mm; Ethiopia, Somalia A. dauensis Obenberger
- Frons moderately or strongly convex with rather long, white or cream-white pubescence; pronotum 1.9– 2.2 times as wide as long; elytra usually strongly wedge-shaped (exceptionally subparallel e.g. A. zambiana sp. nov.), apical 1/3 of elytral margins with rough serration; aedeagus always with dorsal fields of bristles (Figs. 4, 14–18)..............................................................................................................................3
3 Frons strongly convex (Fig. 5); pronotum 2.2 times as wide as long with very fine, ocellate sculpture; elytra only slightly wedge-shaped, with very fine, simple punctation; male unknown; 7.6 mm; Zimbabwe .............................................................................................................................. A. bambisina Obenberger
- Frons moderately convex (Fig. 1); pronotum 1.9–2.1 times as wide as long with fine but quite distinct, ocellate sculpture; elytra wedge-shaped (except for A. zambiana, sp. nov.) with distinct, well-developed punctation .................................................................................................................................................. 4
4 Bright bronze, rarely dark bronze, lustrous; frontal pubescence cream-white or yellow, pronotum 1.9–2.0 times as wide as long; male mesotibiae slender, slightly curved, male metatibiae (Fig. 8); aedeagus (Fig. 14); 5.3–7.0 mm; Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania ................................................................. A. occulta, sp. nov.
- Black or dark bronze, less lustrous; frontal pubescence white, pronotum 2.0–2.1 times as wide as long; aedeagus of a different form (Figs. 4, 15–16, 18)........................................................................................5
5 Antescutellar portion of pronotum with transverse sculpture consisting of transversely enlarged cells with large central grains; elytra more acuminate apically (Fig. 1); male mesotibiae thick, strongly curved, male metatibiae (Fig. 6); aedeagus (Fig. 4); 6.7–9.2 mm; Ethiopia, Somalia, Tanzania A. kheiliana Obenberger
- Antescutellar portion of pronotum with fine, rounded cells with small central grains; elytra less acuminate apically; male mesotibiae slender, nearly straight, male metatibiae (Figs. 9–11); aedeagus of a different
form (Figs. 15–16, 18)................................................................................................................................6 6 Elytra nearly subparallel, frons more convex; lateral pronotal margins regularly rounded; lateroposterior pronotal depressions nearly indistinct; male metatibiae (Fig. 10); aedeagus short, spindle-shaped (Fig. 18); 6.8–7.1 mm; Zambia ......................................................................................... A. zambiana, sp. nov.
- Elytra wedge-shaped, frons moderately convex; lateral pronotal margins not regularly rounded, sometimes nearly angulate; lateroposterior pronotal depressions wide, shallow; male metatibiae (Figs. 9, 11); aedeagus not spindle-shaped (Figs. 15–16).................................................................................................7
7 Black, lustrous with very slight metallic tinge; elytra distinctly uneven with wide, rather deep depressions; male metatibiae (Fig. 9); aedeagus (Fig. 15); 7.2–7.7 mm; Tanzania ............... A. impressipennis, sp. nov.
- Black-bronze, rather mat, pronotum with slight red lustre; elytra only slightly uneven, with very shallow depressions; male metatibiae (Fig. 11); aedeagus (Fig. 16); 7.0– 7.5 mm; Yemen ....... A. nasheri, sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Ỹ, Svatopluk Bíl, 2008, A revision of the Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) kheiliana Obenberger, 1931 species-group (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), pp. 44-56 in Zootaxa 1816 on pages 46-47, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.182919