Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) phobos Bílý 2017, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Bílý, Svatopluk
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Anthaxia
Anthaxia phobos

description: <i>Anthaxia</i> (<i>Haplanthaxia</i>) <i>phobos</i> sp. nov. (Figs 1–3) <b>Type locality.</b> Thailand, Khao Bandai It, Petchaburi Province. <b>Type material.</b> HOLOTYPE: J, ʻPeninsular Thai [land], S. Ohmomo leg. // 22.v.2005, Khao Bandai It, Petchaburiʼ (NMPC). ALLOTYPE: &amp;female;, ʻC– Thai [land], PKK [Prachub Khiri Khan Province], Hua Hin, Mt. Hin Lek Phai, 11.iv.2003, S. Ohmomo leg.ʼ (NMPC). PARATYPES: 1J, same data as holotype (NMPC); 1J, same data as allotype (NMPC); 1 &amp;female;, ʻPeninsular Thai [land], S. Ohmomo leg. // Khao Bandai It, Petchaburi, 22.v.2005 ʼ (MNCA); 1 J 1 &amp;female;, ʻThailand, Hua Hin, PKK Prov. [Prachub Khiri Khan Province], Khao Hin Lek Phai, 12.v.2007, S. Ohmomo leg.ʼ (NMPC); 1 &amp;female;, ʻPeninsular Thai [land], Khao Hin Lek Phai, Hua Hin, PKK [Prachub Khiri Khan Province], 15.v.2008, S. Ohmomo leg.ʼ (SOCT); 1 J 1 &amp;female;, same data but 15.v.2008 (SOCT); 1 &amp;female;, same data but 21.v.2009 (SOCT); 3 &amp;female;&amp;female;, same data but 18.v.2010 (SOCT); 1 &amp;female;, ʻC-Thai[land], Katchaburi, Khao Khaeng Chan, 24.v.2013, S. Ohmomo leg.ʼ (SOCT). <b>Additional material examined.</b> 1 &amp;female; (almost completely destroyed), ʻPeninsular Thai[land], S. Ohmomo leg. // Khao Bandai It, Petchaburi, 22.v.2005 ʼ (SOCT). <b>Diagnosis.</b> Medium-sized (length 4.2–6.0 mm), stout, convex, completely asetose, lustrous (Figs 1–2); dorsal surface black-bronze with fine green lustre (more intense at basal portion of elytra and along suture); pronotum with red-orange lateroposterior depressions and narrow, medial stripe; frons dark golden-orange in both sexes, vertex black; antennae and legs black with green lustre; ventral surface black, proepisterna and lateral portions of abdominal ventrites golden-orange. <b>Description of the male holotype</b> (Fig. 1). Head large as wide as width of anterior pronotal margin; anterior margin of frontoclypeus almost straight; frons regularly, rather strongly convex, vertex weakly convex, 0.9 times as wide as width of eye; eyes large, widely reniform, not projecting beyond outline of head; sculpture of head homogeneous consisting of small, dense, regular, oval cells with well developed central grains; antennae short reaching posterior third of lateral pronotal margins when laid alongside; scape 5 times as long as wide, slightly curved, claviform, pedicel elliptical, 1.5 times as long as wide; third antennomere obtusely triangular, as wide as long, antennomeres 4–10 trapezoidal, somewhat wider than long; terminal antennomere rhomboid, 1.5 times as long as wide. Pronotum rather strongly convex, 1.8 times as wide as long, with weak, shallow lateroposterior depressions; anterior margin deeply bisinuate with wide, projecting medial lobe, posterior margin very weakly bisinuate, almost straight; lateral margins weakly arcuate, posterior angles obtuse-angled, maximum pronotal width just anterior to mid-length; sculpture consisting of small, dense, regular, polygonal cells with tiny central grains; sculpture rougher and more distinct in lateroposterior depressions. Scutellum large, triangular, flat, microsculptured, slightly longer than wide. Elytra almost regularly convex, 1.9 times as long as wide, weakly wedge-shaped, very slightly uneven at posterior fourth; each elytron regularly rounded apically, humeral callosities small, not projecting beyond outline of elytra; basal, transverse depressions deep, wide, almost reaching scutellum; elytral epipleura narrow, parallel-sided, not reaching elytral apex; only very tips of elytra with very fine, lateral serrations; sculpture very fine, homogeneous, almost scale-shaped, rougher, weakly granulate in basal, transverse depressions. Ventral surface lustrous, with rather rough eye-like sculpture with large central grains, abdominal ventrites with very fine, eye-like sculpture; prosternal process weakly convex, strongly widening behind procoxae, pointed apically. Anal ventrite narrowly truncate with very fine, lateral serrations. Legs thin, relatively short, tibiae almost straight, without inner serrations; tarsi slender, distinctly shorter than corresponding tibiae, fourth tarsomere yellow-brown with wide adhesive pads. Tarsal claws fine, weakly hook-shaped, yellow-brown, only slightly enlarged at base. Aedeagus (Fig. 3) wide, short spindle-shaped, moderately sclerotised, parameres conspicuously narrowed in posterior fifth, obliquely truncate apically; median lobe broad, widely pointed apically with fine dorsolateral serrations. <b>Measurements.</b> Length: 4.2–6.0 mm (holotype 4.3 mm); width: 1.5–2.2 mm (holotype 1.5 mm). <b>Sexual dimorphism.</b> Only very slightly expressed; the female differs from the male only by the stouter body, slightly different colouration (Fig. 2) and by the wider vertex (vertex as wide as width of eye in female). <b>Variability.</b> No variability was observed except for the size and sexual dichromatism. <b>Bionomy.</b> Unknown. <b>Differential diagnosis.</b> <i>Anthaxia</i> (<i>Haplanthaxia</i>) <i>phobos</i> sp. nov. is similar and most probably related to the following species, <i>A.</i> (<i>H.</i>) <i>deimos</i> sp. nov., from which it differs by the characters given in the differential diagnosis of <i>A.</i> (<i>H.</i>) <i>deimos</i> sp. nov. (see below). <b>Etymology.</b> This species is named after the larger moon of Mars – “ <i>Phobos</i> ”; noun in apposition. <b>Distribution.</b> Thailand. <b>Note.</b> One female labelled: ʻLaos NE, Hua Phan Province, Ban Saleui, Phou Pan (Mt), 20°12′N 104°01′E, 1300–1900 m, 1.–31.v.2011, Leg. C. Holzschuhʼ (NMPC) was not included among paratypes since (apart from the locality) it differs by the completely golden-orange ventral surface and almost unicolorous, dark, black-bronze pronotum; other characters completely fit to <i>Anthaxia</i> (<i>H.</i>) <i>phobos</i> sp. nov. but it could belong to a different species and without a male it is impossible to evaluate this specimen.
description: Published as part of <i>Bílý, Svatopluk, 2017, A new species-group of the genus Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) from south-eastern Asia, with descriptions of two new species (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Anthaxiini), pp. 145-152 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 57 (1)</i> on pages 147-150, DOI: 10.1515/aemnp-2017-0063, http://zenodo.org/record/5316394