A New Species of the Buprestid Genus Aphanisticus Latreille, 1829 (Coleoptera, Buprestidae) from Nepal
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w Species of the Buprestid Genus Aphanisticus Latreille, 1829 (Coleoptera, Buprestidae) from Nepal M. Yu. Kalashiana,* a
Institute of Zoology, Scientific Center of Zoology and Hydroecology, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Yerevan, 0014 Armenia *e-mail: [email protected] Received March 26, 2020; revised March 28, 2020; accepted March 28, 2020
Abstract—Aphanisticus nepalensis sp. n., belonging to the Aphanisticus bedeli Abeille de Perrin, 1893 species-group established herein, is described from Nepal. In addition to the species mentioned above, the group also includes A. bulbatus Bílý, 1973, A. kalabi Kalashian, 2003, and A. horaki Kalashian, 2003. A key to the species of this group is provided. Keywords: Coleoptera, Buprestidae, Aphanisticus nepalensis sp. n., Aphanisticus bedeli Abeille de Perrin species-group n., Nepal DOI: 10.1134/S0013873820040120
The present study continues the author’s research of the jewel beetle genus Aphanisticus Latreille, 1829 (Coleoptera, Buprestidae: Aphanisticini) (Kalashian, 1993, 1999, 2019; Kalashian and Kubáň, 2014, 2016, etc.). Two distinctive species were recently described by the author from Indochina (Kalashian, 2003); later, the similarity of them with two species from the Western Palaearctic Region and also with an undescribed species from Nepal was revealed. The species listed constitute a distinct species-group; diagnosis of this group and also a description of the new species are given below.
blackish bronze, rather lustrous. Head small as compared to pronotum, distinctly narrowed anteriorly; frons shallowly depressed along midline; eyes wholly flat, hardly visible in dorsal view. Antennae serrate; segments of serrate part, beginning with 8th one, forming flat, distinctly separated club. Pronotum wider than, or as wide as elytra, strongly and almost regularly convex, slightly flattened along midline and along base, occasionally more or less pit-shaped depressed inward from basal angles; its anterior margin straight or slightly bisinuate; anterior angles not or very shortly projecting. Elytral striae formed by distinct medium-sized punctures partly elongate into strokes.
The following abbreviations are used in the text: MKCY, M.Yu. Kalashian’s collection (Yerevan, Armenia); MNHN, the Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle (Paris, France); NMPC, the Národní Muzeum v Praze (Prague, the Czech Republic); ZMH, the Zoological Museum of Helsinki (Helsinki, Finland).
The representatives of this group are most similar to the Palaearctic and Oriental species closely related to A. antennatus Saunders, 1873 (Fig. 1, 5) (A. consanguineus Ritsema, 1897, A. obsoletulus Obenberger, 1918, A. cochinchinae Obenberger, 1924, A. sinicola Obenberger, 1944, A. blaisei Descarpentries et Villiers, 1963, A. vaulogeri Descarpentries et Villiers, 1963, etc.; formal establishment of the corresponding species-group, clarification of its structure, and a review of the species will be the subject of a separate planned study). All these species are smaller (with the body length n
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