Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) mashuna Obenberger 1931
Creators: name: Bílý, Svatopluk
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Anthaxia
Anthaxia mashuna

description: Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) mashuna Obenberger, 1931
(Figs. 12–14)
Anthaxia mashuna Obenberger, 1931: 108. Type locality: Mashonaland: Mazoë [Zimbabwe, Mazowe, approx. 17°31′S 30°58′E].
Anthaxia mashuna: Bílý (1996): 22 (synonymy).
Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) mashuna: Bílý, 1997: 28, 91 (catalogue); Bellamy, 2008: 1424 (catalogue).
Anthaxia chalcogenioides Burgeon, 1941: 190. Type localities: Welgelegen [nowadays Lumata, 12°04′60″S, 27°31′08″E]; Lubombo [11°10′60″S, 27°55′00″E]. Both localites are situated in the Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of Congo.
Anthaxia (Anthaxia) chalcogenioides: Bílý, 1996: 22 (synonym of A. mashuna).
Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) chalcogenioides: Bílý, 1997: 28, 91 (catalogue, as synonym of A. mashuna); Bellamy, 2008: 1424 (catalogue, as synonym of A. mashuna).
Anthaxia morula Théry, 1947: 143, Fig. 33, syn. nov. Type locality: [Angola] Cubango.
Anthaxia morula: Ferreira, 1965: 851 (catalogue).
Anthaxia (Cratomerus) morula: Bílý, 1997: 29, 94 (catalogue); 1999: 230 (note); Bellamy, 2008: 1431.
Type specimens examined. Anthaxia mashuna. Lectotype (male, NMPC, Fig. 14): “Mashonaland [h] // TYPUS [red, p] // Mus. Nat. Pragae, Inv. 22763 [orange, p+h] // Anthaxia mashuna m. Type, Det. Dr. Obenberger [p+h]”. Paralectotype (male, BMNH): “Mashonaland, Mazoë, Dez. 1905 (G. A. Marshall) // Syntype [blue, round, p] // Type [red, p] // 1906-182 // Anthaxia mashuna m. Type, Det. Dr. Obenberger [p+h]”. Anthaxia chalcogenioides.
Syntypes (2 males, 1 female, MRAC): “Musée du Congo, Welgelegen, Jan. 1912 [p] // Holotypus [red, p] // Anthaxia pilifrons Kerr. [h] // Anthaxia chalcogenioides Type Burg. [h] // R. DÉT. A 57 [p]” (male); “Musée du Congo, Katanga: Lubombo, xii.1928, Ch. Seydel, c. 1951 [p+h] // Paratype [red, p] // Lubombo, Décbre 1929, Ch. Seydel [p] // C. 1951 [h] ” (female); “Musée du Congo, Katanga: Lubombo, xii.1929, Ch. Seydel [p+h] // Paratype [red, p]” (male). Anthaxia morula. Holotype by monotypy (female, LCDF, Fig. 12): “Kvg [h] // morula Théry [h], TYPE [p, red]”.
Having studied and compared all type specimens mentioned above and extensive material of A. mashuna (see Bílý & Sakalian, 2014) I failed to find any substantial differences and I propose that A. morula Théry, 1947 to be conspecific with A. mashuna Obenberger, 1931 and a junior synonym. I have failed to solve the abbreviation “Kvg” on the locality label but in the description (Théry 1947) the type locality is more precisely given as “Cubango, Dr. Monard, une seule exemplaire”.
Again, I treated A. morula erroneously in the subgenus Cratomerus (Bílý, 1997, 1999) based on the illustration in the description (see Fig. 33 in Théry 1947). Without any doubt it belongs to the subgenus Haplanthaxia Reitter, 1911 (Bílý & Sakalian, 2014).
Distribution. Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Bellamy (2008) recorded this species also from Botswana, however, without any citation.
description: Published as part of Bílý, Svatopluk, 2015, On the species of the genus Anthaxia Eschscholtz, 1829 described by A. Théry from Angola in 1947 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Anthaxiini), pp. 246-256 in Zootaxa 4028 (2) on pages 251-252, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4028.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/244471