Anthaxia (Anthaxia) truncata Abeille 1900
- Dataset
- Taxonomic notes on the genus Anthaxia Eschscholtz, 1829 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Anthaxiini) 1.
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Buprestidae
- genus
- Anthaxia
- species
- Anthaxia truncata
discussion
Remarks. Abeille (1900) described Anthaxia (A.) truncata from two specimens, both males, generically labelled from " orient ", being probably from Iran. The two specimens, in a relatively good state of preservation, are currently conserved in the general Buprestidae collection of MNHN, and only one of them bears a folded label, probably handwritten by Abeille, stating " truncata Ab. ", together with a printed red " type " label which has certainly been added in more recent times. In order to establish a single name-bearing type for this species, I designate this latter specimen as lectotype (Figs. 21 – 22), and the other specimen as paralectotype. Anthaxia (A.) lgockii Obenberger, 1917 was described from " Elisabethpol ", at that time a Governorate in the lower Caucasus that included the highlands area roughly corresponding to the current Nagorno-Karabakh region. The holotype of this species (Fig. 25) shows an inconsistency of sclerotisation and a colouration typical of slightly immature individuals. Anthaxia (A.) lgockii ssp. talyshensis Bílý, 1991 (Figs. 23 – 24) was also described from Azerbaijan, but from the southeastern area of Lerik, near the Caspian Sea.
materials_examined
Type specimens studied. Anthaxia (A.) truncata: lectotype by present designation (♂, MNHN - Fig. 21, original labelling: Fig. 22); A. (A.) lgockii: holotype by monotypy (♂, NMPC inv. 22207 - Fig. 25, original labelling: Fig. 26); A. (A.) lgockii ssp. talyshensis: holotype by original designation (♂, ZIN - Fig. 23, original labelling: Fig. 24); A. (A.) adiyamana: holotype by original designation (♂, NMPC - Fig. 27, original labelling: Fig. 28).