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Anthaxia (Anthaxia) patsyae Baiocchi 2008
No full text<i>Anthaxia</i> (<i>Anthaxia</i>) <i>patsyae</i> Baiocchi, 2008 <p>(Figs. 66, 67, 68, 69, 80, 81, 96, 97, 102, 107, 111, 117, 124, 129, 134, 137)</p> <p> <i>Anthaxia</i> (<i>Anthaxia</i>) <i>patsyae</i> Baiocchi, 2008: 323, 324 (Fig.1), 326, 327, 328 (Figs 2,3), 329 (Figs 6‒9), 330, 331. Type locality: “Iran, (Fārs), 7 km W Dašt-e-Aržan, 2050 m, 29°38’N 51°54’E”.</p> <p> <i>Anthaxia</i> (<i>Anthaxia</i>) <i>patsyae</i>: Ghahari <i>et al</i>., 2015: 89 (faunistic catalogue); Kubáň <i>et al</i>., 2016: 500 (catalogue).</p> <p> <b>Type specimens studied</b>. <i>Anthaxia</i> (<i>A</i>.) <i>patsyae</i>: holotype by monotypy (♀, DBCR: Fig. 68, 81, 117, 129).</p> <p> <b>Additional material studied. Iran</b>: Būyer Ahmad-o-Kūhgīlūye: IRAN, Zagros Mt., Prov. Kohgiluyeh a Boyer-Ahmad, YASUJ eoj., 0 3.06.2011, Jaroslav DALIHOD lgt. (1♂ DBCR, Figs. 66, 67, 80, 96, 124, 134); IRAN Zagros Mt., Province—Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Tang-e-Sorkh 13 km S, 30°29’25.78’’S,51°39’26.64’’V 2144M, Jaroslav DALIHOD lgt. 30.5.2015 (1♂ DGCC); IRAN (SSE Yasuj) 2390m, (Būyer Ahmad-o-Kūhgīlūye), NE of Malashoreh pass, 30°29'24"N 51°39'29"E, 10‒13.V.2016 Baiocchi leg. (1♂ DBCR). Ilam: IRAN, Ilam prov. Abdanan, Dinar Kouh, elev.1830m, 32.915N 47.301E +/‒ 300m, M. Kafka lgt. 12.5.2016 (1♂ MKCN). Fārs: Iran, Fārs, Kuhhā-ye Zagros, 5km NE of Dasht-e Arzhan, 29º40’18"N 52º01’48"E, 2160m, 29‒30 IV 2016, leg. Andrzej Lasón (1♀ ALCB); IRAN Fars prov., 15 km S of Dasht Arjan, 29°33'8.57"N; 51°56'22.22"E, 2.‒6.V.2016 2.261 m., M.Obořil lgt. (10♂♂6♀♀ MOCO; 1♂1♀ DBCR);IRAN, S Fars prov., 7 km SW—Dasht Arjan, 2000mnm—žlutá miska [yellow bowl]—29°38’12’’N, 51°55’03’’E— 5.V.2016 leg. David Frank (1♂ DFCP).</p> <p> <b>Morphology and variability</b>. As in all other species of the group, the size of <i>A. patsyae</i> is moderately variable. The size of males ranges from 6.1 x 2.5 mm to 7.5 x 3.3 mm, while in females it ranges from 6.4 x 2.6 mm to 8.2 x 3.6 mm (holotype), with an average length to width ratio of 2.3 times longer than wide.</p> <p> Although following the same pattern as in its western relatives, the habitus of <i>A. patsyae</i> is much more variable. In fact, together with specimens with a colouration very similar to the typical pattern, we find many others with a very clear and bright appearance, sometimes with a completely different aspect than the typical one. This is due in particular to the lack of the discal spots on the pronotum, which makes its habitus the brightest in its speciesgroup. In fact, the discal part of the pronotum shows only a vaguely hinted tinge of spots, determined by light incidence on the sculpture, and not of pigmentary origin. The brightness of most specimens is determined also by the golden-reddish background colour of the elytra. In addition, the dark discal macula on the elytra, which in the other species is very dark with a bluish or greenish tinge, in many specimens of <i>A. patsyae</i> is largely replaced by gold, and becomes hardly distinguishable against the background colour. This different colouration however, is seemingly better defined and closer to the normal habitus if seen under a diffused light (Fig. 66). The green colouration of the elytral base is much more expanded than in the other species, and the sutural part is exceptionally enlarged at the apex, being moreover occasionally of a more bluish-green tinge, however, some specimens show the normal colouration usually found in the western species, e.g. the holotype (Fig. 68).</p> <p> Despite the peculiar habitus of most specimens, <i>A. patsyae</i> has proved to be morphologically very close to <i>A. cebecii</i> <b>sp. nov</b>., however, some diagnostic characters in the habitus, are consistently different and serve to distinguish this species, e.g. the constant lack of the pronotal spots and the strong development of the basal green macula of the elytra, a feature that earlier authors (Obenberger, 1925; Schaefer, 1938) had also indicated as an important diagnostic character. In addition, slightly different but consistent characters are found in the male genitalia, and although the overall shape of the tegmen is actually very similar to <i>A. cebecii</i> <b>sp. nov.</b>, the shape of the upper lamella in the apex of the median lobe is slightly different (Figs. 110, 111).</p> <p>With regard to sexual dimorphism, we observed the same as in the other species, with females showing a stouter and more parallel body, shorter antennae with less acutely shaped last antennomeres, simple metatrochanters, smooth tibiae, and a slightly more round anal ventrite. No strict sexual dichromatism was observed.</p> <p> <b>Bionomy and distribution</b>. <i>Anthaxia patsyae</i>, as far as is known, is endemic of the Zagros Mountain Range, in Western Iran, and is the rarest species of the group. In fact, although the research program of the last years led to the finding of several specimens, the density of the single populations turned out to be very low. Unlike other species, <i>A. patsyae</i> seems to be well adapted to live in very dry, rocky areas, although it has been found mostly in rather grassy and fresh micro-habitats with an adequate coverage of <i>Acer</i> trees.</p>Published as part of <i>Baiocchi, Daniele & Magnani, Gianluca, 2018, A revision of the Anthaxia (Anthaxia) midas Kiesenwetter, 1857 species-group (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Anthaxiini), pp. 201-254 in Zootaxa 4370 (3)</i> on pages 235-239, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4370.3.1, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/1145577">http://zenodo.org/record/1145577</a>
Anthaxia (Anthaxia) magnanii Baiocchi, 2011, n. sp.
No full text<i>Anthaxia (Anthaxia) magnanii</i> n. sp. <p>(Figs. 1,3,4,13,14,15,31,37,39,45,51,57,60,63,64)</p> <p> <b>Description of holotype</b> 3 (Fig. 1). Body suboval, rather convex; length: 6.0 mm, maximum width at humeral height: 2.5 mm, length/width ratio: 2.4 times longer than wide; dorsal colouration brilliant bronze with slight coppery tinge on head, pronotum; discal area of pronotum with two longitudinal, indistinct, blurred maculae, interrupted in frontal 1/2; legs, antennae, ventral surface of same bronze colour as rest of the body; last five antennomeres yellowish at respective base.</p> <p>Head (Fig. 13) slightly narrower than anterior pronotal margin; eyes not projecting beyond outline of head; vertex flat, rather narrow (0.4 times as wide as width of head), with an evident dark median line; frons (Fig. 31) wide, slightly depressed in middle; inner ocular margins S-shaped, moderately converging on vertex, diverging on lower frontal portion; sculpture of vertex very weak, shallow in middle, strongly stretched near the upper ocular margins, consisting of irregular cells, with finely microsculptured brilliant bottom and tiny setigerous punctures; sculpture of frons areolate, consisting of deep irregular cells, rather oblong on mid area, with slightly microsculptured bottom and large, flat, central grain; sculpture along inner ocular margins deep, longitudinally stretched; frons covered with long, yellowish, recumbent pubescence, slightly divergent on upper frontal portion, convergent near lower ocular margin; pubescence of vertex subtle, short, hardly visible; clypeus feebly prominent, flattened frontally, lateral margins subparallel, anterior margin smooth, deeply roundly incised.</p> <p> Antennae (Fig. 39) slender, 1.2 times longer than middle pronotal length; antennomeres 6 <i>–</i> 11 yellowish at base; scape finely club-shaped; pedicel oval, 1.4 times longer than wide; antennomere 3 subcilyndrical, 1.1 times longer than pedicel; antennomere 4 subconical; antennomeres 5 <i>–</i> 10 sharply triangular, slightly longer than wide, slender at base, with sinuate inner margin; last antennomere elliptically elongate.</p> <p>Pronotum (Fig. 13) transverse, 1.7 times wider than long, more convex on anterior 1/2, with maximum width and shallow trasversal depression at midlength; anterior margin rather deeply emarginate, with feeble central lobe; anterior angles acute; lateral margins regularly arched, distinctly narrowed before the obtuse posterior angles; posterior margin slightly narrower than elytral base, moderately arched backward; lateroposterior depressions wide, shallow; sculpture areolate and regularly polygonal only on anterior angles; lateroposterior corner cells irregular, longitudinally prolonged, separated by dark, thick borders; middle discal area rather glossy, with sculpture consisting of large, contiguous, irregularly lengthened cells, bordered by long furrows, very shallow on mid anterior portion, deeper in the mid posterior 1/2, forming a curvilinear, exarate pattern, hosting multiple, tiny, setigerous punctures; whole pronotal surface very finely microsculptured, sparsely covered with very short, whitish pubescence.</p> <p>Scutellum (Fig. 13) dull black, subtrapezoidal, wider than long, more convex on posterior 1/2, with finely microreticulated surface.</p> <p>Elytra subparallel, 1.9 times longer than wide, basal 2/3 rather convex, apical 1/3 more flat, feebly, arcuately tapering to separately, obtusely, subrounded apex; basal transverse depressions wide, slightly deeper at humeral angles, not reaching the scutellum; humeral swellings normally developed; one rounded, shallow, postscutellar depression at the basal 1/3, and longitudinal depressions on the posterior portion of each elytron; lateral elytral groove complete, shallow, narrow, weakly wider at humeral height and along part of apical 1/3; epipleura broad, not complete, expiring before the apex; surface coarsely sculptured at base and along outer edges, smoother, brighter along the slightly raised elytral suture; pubescence transparent, very short and sparse.</p> <p>Ventral surface (Fig. 4). Anterior margin of prosternum straight; prosternal process rather wide, with lateral sides poorly incurved and posterior apex moderately long; posterior end of central metasternal suture shortly, narrowly divergent; protrocantheres unarmed; mesotrochanters with obtuse posterior spine; metatrochanters with acute posterior spine; sculpture of sternum variolate, consisting of cells of varying depth, with tiny central pore; sculpture of ventral abdominal surface extremely shallowly variolate, with very fine basal microreticulation; coxae and ventral face of legs finely microreticulated; ventral pubescence sparse, short and transparent.</p> <p>Anal ventrite (Fig. 351 wider than long; preapical area flat, depressed, with fairly rounded, smooth, strongly raised apical edge; lateral margins weakly serrate.</p> <p> Legs. Foretibiae slightly curved at base; foretarsomeres 1 <b>–</b> 4 equal, tarsomere 5 longer; mesotibiae straight, inner margin weakly incised, feebly serrate on distal 1/3; mesotarsomeres 1 <b>–</b> 4 equal, tarsomere 5 longer; metatibiae (Fig. 45) straight, flattened distally, inner margin slightly incised, serrate on apical 1/4; metarsomeres 2 <b>–</b> 4 equal, shorter than 1, tarsomere 5 as long as 1; tarsal claws thick, distinctly incurved, smoothly enlarged at base, brown with darker tips.</p> <p>Aedeagus strongly bottle-shaped, 4.9 times longer than wide, widest at midlength; basal 1/2 and apical margins yellowish, rest of anterior 1/2 very dark; phallobasis subparallel, parameres (Fig. 14) subcylindrical at base, anterior 1/2 strongly narrowed, apical lobes feebly enlarged, sharply pointed, slightly convergent, setigerous portion lengthened, hidden within the apicolateral membranaceous margin; median lobe (Fig. 15) subparallel, 9 times longer than wide, distinctly convex at base, apical 1/4 mildly tapered, apex slightly narrowed, acute but not sharp, anterior portion of dorsal surface feebly depressed in middle, slightly rugulose, posterior portion smoother, preapical portion of lateral margins very finely serrate, basal apodemes 1/3 of total length.</p> <p> <b>Variation.</b> Medium-sized species (4.1 <b>–</b> 7.2 mm); body suboval, rather convex; the size of males ranges from 4.3 mm x 1.7 mm to 6.9 mm x 2.8 mm (holotype: 6.0 mm x 2.5 mm), while the females vary from 4.1 mm x 1.7 mm to 7.2 mm x 3.0 mm (allotype: 6.0 mm x 2.5 mm). Sexual dichroism absent, except for the colouration of antennae, which in the female are completely dark bronze (Fig. 3); the female also differs with the following features: lower part of inner ocular margins usually less divergent; meso- and metatibiae with smooth inner margins; posterior margin of anal ventrite slightly angulated at apex. Ovipositor of the allotype illustrated (Fig. 57). Concerning the morphological characters, <i>A. magnanii</i> has proved to be poorly variable, although convexity and sculpture of pronotun can be more or less pronounced, as well as the depth of the median frontal depression; in several specimens the widest point of the body is located on the posterior 1/2 of the elytra; the shape of male genitalia is rather constant, but in some specimens the subcylindrical basal portion of parameres is slightly longer; concerning the colouration, a weak variability is present in the extension of the basal yellow colouration of male antennomeres; some specimens show a deeper coppery tinge on head and pronotum, while in others it can be slightly more greenish; generally, the colouration of the body may be somewhat lighter or darker, but never so dark as in closely related species.</p> <p> <b>Specimens examined</b>. Holotype, 3: Iran, (Fārs), 2050 m., 7 km W Dašt-e Arjan, 29°38’N 51°54’E, 27 <b>–</b> 29.IV.2006, Baiocchi leg. / ex larva <i>Fraxinus</i> sp. 28.III.2007; allotype, Ƥ: Iran, (Fārs), 2050 m., 7 km W Dašt-e Arjan, 29°38’N 51°54’E, 27 <b>–</b> 29.IV.2006, Baiocchi leg. / ex larva <i>Fraxinus</i> sp. 20.III.2007; paratypes: Iran, (Fārs), 2050 m., 7 km W Dašt-e Arjan, 29°38’N 51°54’E, 12.V.2005, Baiocchi leg. (1 Ƥ); Iran, (Fārs), 2050 m., 7 km W Dašt-e Arjan, 29°38’N 51°54’E, 27 <b>–</b> 29.IV.2006, Baiocchi leg. / ex larva <i>Fraxinus</i> sp. 16 <b>–</b> 28.III.2007 (23 3 25 ƤƤ); Iran, (Fārs), 2050 m., 7 km W Dašt-e Arjan, 29°38’N 51°54’E, 25.IV.2007, Baiocchi leg. / ex larva <i>Fraxinus</i> sp. 4 <b>–</b> 20.III.2008 (5 3 9 ƤƤ); Iran, (Fārs), 2050 m., 7 km W Dašt-e Arjan, 29°38’N 51°54’E, 25.IV.2007, Baiocchi leg. / ex larva <i>Fraxinus</i> sp. II.2009 (19 3 19 ƤƤ); Iran, (Fārs), 2050 m., 7 km W Dašt-e Arjan, 29°38’N 51°54’E, 4 <b>–</b> 6.V.2008, Baiocchi leg. / ex larva <i>Fraxinus</i> sp. 5 <b>–</b> 29.III.2009 (26 3 49 ƤƤ); Iran, (Fārs), 2050 m., 7 km W Dašt-e Arjan, 29°38’N 51°54’E, 4 <b>–</b> 6.V.2008, Baiocchi leg. / ex larva <i>Fraxinus</i> sp. 17 <b>–</b> 29.III.2010 (3 3 5 ƤƤ); Iran, (Fārs), 2050 m., 7 km W Dašt-e Arjan, 29°38’00’’N 51°54’50.7’’E, 1 <b>–</b> 3.V.2009, Baiocchi leg. (7 3 2 ƤƤ); Iran, (Fārs), 2050 m., 7 km W Dašt-e Arjan, 29°38’00’’N 51°54’50.7’’E, 1 <b>–</b> 3.V.2009, Baiocchi leg. / ex larva <i>Fraxinus</i> sp. 4 <b>–</b> 17.III.2010 (2 3 3 ƤƤ); Iran, (Fārs), m. 2050, 7 km. W Dašt-e Arjan, N29°38’00” E51°54’50.7”, 27.IV.2006, D. Gianasso leg. (1 3); Iran, (Fārs), m. 2050, 7 km. W Dašt-e Arjan, N29°38’00” E51°54’50.7”, 27.IV.2007, D. Gianasso leg. (1 Ƥ); Iran, (Fārs), m. 2050, 7 km. W Dašt-e Arjan, N29°38’00” E51°54’50.7”, 27.IV.2007, D. Gianasso leg. / ex larva <i>Fraxinus rotundifolia</i> 11.II–16.III.2008 (2 3 3 ƤƤ); Iran, (Fārs), m. 2050, 7 km. W Dašt-e Arjan, N29°38’00” E51°54’50.7”, 4 <b>–</b> 6.V.2008, D. Gianasso leg. (2 ƤƤ); Iran, (Fārs), m. 2050, 7 km. W Dašt-e Arjan, N29°38’00” E51°54’50.7”, 4 <b>–</b> 6.V.2008, D. Gianasso leg. / ex larva <i>Fraxinus rotundifolia</i> 26.I <b>–</b> 12.III.2009 (40 3 47 ƤƤ); Iran, (Fārs), m. 2050, 7 km W Dašt-e Arjan, N29°38’00” E51°54’50.7”, 4 <b>–</b> 6.V.2008, D. Gianasso leg. / ex larva <i>Fraxinus rotundifolia</i> [adult dead in pupal cell], 3.V.2009 (1 ex.); Iran, (Fārs), m. 2050, 7 km. W Dašt-e Arjan, N29°38’00” E51°54’50.7”, 1 <b>–</b> 3.V.2009, D. Gianasso leg. (3 3 2 ƤƤ); Iran, (Fārs), m. 2050, 7 km. W Dašt-e Arjan, N29°38’00” E51°54’50.7”, 1 <b>–</b> 3.V.2009, D. Gianasso leg. / ex larva <i>Fraxinus rotundifolia</i> 28. II.2010 (1 3); Iran <b>–</b> Fārs, m. 2.055, 7 km W. Dašt-e Arjan, 25.IV.2007, leg. G. Magnani (2 3 2 ƤƤ); Iran <b>–</b> Fārs, m. 2.050, 7 km. W. Dašt-e Arjan, 25.IV.2007, leg. G. Magnani / ex larva <i>Fraxinus</i> sp. 08.III.2008 (2 3 1 Ƥ); Iran <b>–</b> Fārs, m. 2.050, 7 km. W. Dašt-e Arjan, 25.IV.2007, leg. G. Magnani / ex larva <i>Fraxinus</i> sp. 10.III.2008 (2 3 1 Ƥ); Iran – Fārs, m. 2.050, 7 km. W. Dašt-e Arjan, 25.IV.2007, leg. G. Magnani / ex larva <i>Fraxinus</i> sp. 15.III.2008 (4 3 5 ƤƤ); Iran <b>–</b> Fārs, m. 2.050, 7 km. W. Dašt-e Arjan, 25.IV.2007, leg. G. Magnani / ex larva <i>Fraxinus</i> sp. 18.III.2008 (1 3); Iran <b>–</b> Fārs, m. 2.050, 7 km. W. Dašt-e Arjan, 25.IV.2007, leg. G. Magnani / ex larva <i>Fraxinus</i> sp. 20.III.2009 (1 3 1 Ƥ); Iran <b>–</b> Fārs, m. 2.050, 7 km. W. Dašt-e Arjan, 25.IV.2007, leg. G. Magnani / ex larva <i>Fraxinus</i> sp. [adults dead in pupal cell], IV.2010 (9 3 7 ƤƤ).</p> <p>The holotype, allotype and some paratypes are deposited in D. Baiocchi collection (Rome, Italy); paratypes in the following collections: Centro Iberoamericano de la Biodiversidad (CIBIO) of the University of Alicante (Spain); National Musem of Prague (Czech Rep.), Plant Pests and Diseases Research Institute (Tehran, Iran), Zoological Institute - Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg, Russia), C. L. Bellamy (Sacramento, U.S.A.), S. Bílý (Prague, Czech Rep.), J. De La Rosa (Madrid, Spain), D. Gianasso (Castelnuovo Don Bosco, Italy), M. Gigli (Rome, Italy), F. Izzillo (Naples, Italy), M. Kafka (Neratovice, Czech Rep.), V. Kubáň (Brno, Czech Rep.), A. Liberto (Rome, Italy), G. Magnani (Cesena, Italy), H. Mühle (Munich, Germany), M. Niehuis (Albersweiler, Germany), G. Novak (Wien, Austria), and M. Škorpík (Lukov, Czech Rep.).</p> <p> <b>Comments.</b> Despite some morphological and bionomical affinities with <i>A. bicolor</i>, we consider <i>A. magnanii</i> to be more closely related to <i>A.</i> (<i>Anthaxia</i>) <i>chaerodrys</i> Szallies, 2001 (Fig. 2), a relict species with a peculiar distribution, and known so far only from Turkey (Szallies 2001) and Spain (Arnáiz Ruiz & Bercedo Páramo 2007 a, b; De La Rosa 2007). Both species show an overall dark colouration resembling that of <i>A.</i> (<i>Anthaxia</i>) <i>vladivostokana</i> Obenberger, 1938 and <i>A.</i> (<i>Anthaxia</i>) <i>majzlani</i> Bílý, 1991, the two easternmost species of the <i>A.dimidiata-fulgurans</i> species-group. We agree with the opinion of Bílý (1991) according to whom, although showing a rather different pattern of pronotal sculpture, <i>A. majzlani</i> and <i>A. vladivostokana</i> represent a separate complex of dark species within their species-group, in which we consider are to be included also <i>A. chaerodrys</i> and <i>A. magnanii</i>.</p> <p> At the time Obenberger gave his definition of the <i>A. dimidiata</i> species-group (Obenberger 1917), all the above mentioned taxa were still unknown and, for the same reason, most of them had neither been included in the <i>A.dimidiata-fulgurans</i> species-group as defined by Bílý (Bílý 1984) and Niehuis (Niehuis 1990); since then, further new species have been described, and the group is in the need of a new, more detailed revision.</p> <p> <i>Anthaxia magnanii</i> <b>n. sp.</b> <i>Anthaxia chaerodrys</i> Szallies, 2001</p> <p>Body (Fig. 1) suboval, brilliant light bronze, usually with a Body (Fig. 2) subparallel, more angularly shaped, uniformely slight more coppery tinge on head and pronotum dark brown, with very faint purple tinge on pronotal lateral margins, elytral base and along a short basal portion of the elytral suture</p> <p>Head (Fig. 13) slightly narrower than anterior pronotal mar- Head (Fig. 16) distinctly narrower than anterior pronotal margin; vertex 0.4 times as wide as width of head; pubescence of gin; vertex narrower, 0.3 times as wide as width of head; frons yellowish; upper lobe of eye acutely rounded; frons pubescence of frons withish; upper lobe of eye more obtusely (Fig. 31) with bright copper colouration; anterior margin of rounded; frons (Fig. 32) with strong purple tinge, greenish at clypeus distinctly more deeply emarginate lower ocular angles; anterior margin of clypeus weakly emar-</p> <p>ginate</p> <p>Antennae (Fig. 39) 1.2 times longer than middle pronotal Antennae (Fig. 40) 1.1 times longer than middle pronotal</p> <p> length; scape with equal lateral sides; antennomeres 5 <i>–</i> 10 length; scape with inner lateral side strongly gibbous, outer slender, acutely triangular shaped; last antennomere more side slightly bent outward; antennomeres 5 <i>–</i> 10 more compact, elliptically elongate distinctly trapezoidal; last antennomere subrhomboidal</p> <p>Pronotum (Fig. 13) less transverse, 1.7 times wider than Pronotum (Fig. 16) more transverse, 1.8 times wider than long, long, widest at midlength; lateral margins uniformely arched, widest at anterior 1/3; lateral margins distincly angulated at distinctly sinuate before posterior angles; lateroposterior anterior 1/3, more directly tapered posteriorly; lateroposterior depressions smaller, extended for 1/3 of the pronotal length; depressions wider, extended for 1/2 of the pronotal length; disdiscal sculpture deeper, distinctly curvilinear, consisting of cal sculpture shallower, less clearly curvilinear, consisting of larger, contiguous, irregularly lengthened cells, bordered by smaller, irregularly polygonal, areolate cells, bordered by shaldeep furrows low furrows</p> <p>Elytra tapereded on distal 1/3; inner portion of basal depres- Elytra tapered on distal 1/4; inner portion of basal depression sion shallow; humeral swellings well developed; apex (Fig. deep; humeral swellings poorly developed; apex (Fig. 38) 37) not incurved downward; apical lateromarginal punctures slightly bent downward, deeply punctured along the apicolatabsent eral margins</p> <p>Apical portion of foretibiae slightly sinuate externally; inner Apical portion of foretibiae straight externally; inner margin of margin of mesotibiae weakly incised, feebly serrate on distal mesotibiae straight, slightly serrate on distal 1/3; metatibiae 1/3; metatibiae (Fig. 45) flattened distally, inner margin (Fig. 46) thicker, inner margin straight, acutely serrate on distal incised, slightly serrate on apical 1/4; mesotarsomere 1 1/3; mesotarsomere 1 much longer than 2; metatarsomere 1 slightly longer than 2; basal metatarsomere 1.5 times longer twice as long as 2</p> <p>than 2</p> <p>Aedeagus: narrowed portion of parameres (Fig. 14) longer Aedeagus: narrowed portion of parameres (Fig. 17) shorter (1/ (nearly 1/2 of parameral length); dorsal surface of median 3 of parameral length); dorsal surface of median lobe (Fig. 18) lobe (Fig. 15) more distinctly rugulose on anterior portion less rugulose on anterior portion</p> <p> Some of the distinctive morphological features of the <i>A. dimidiata-fulgurans</i> species-group, in this new species seem to be poorly developed or even completely absent and, although characters as the partial yellow colouration of male antennomeres, the typical bottleneck shape of anterior portion of the aedeagus, and the peculiar pronotal sculpture, undoubtly set <i>A. magnanii</i> in this group, the lateroposterior depressions of pronotum more shallow than in close species, and the absence of deep punctures along the lateroapical elytral margins (Fig. 37), denote that it is one of the most derived species within it.</p> <p> The character states that differentiate <i>A. magnanii</i> from <i>A. chaerodrys</i>, are listed in table 1.</p> <p> <b>Bionomy and distribution.</b> At present <i>A. magnanii</i> has been collected only in its “locus typicus” (Fig. 60, 63), but its peculiar timid and hiding behaviour, shared also with its closest species <i>A.</i> (<i>Anthaxia</i>) <i>chaerodrys</i> Szallies, 2001, (Fig. 2) suggests that it might be more widespread than it actually seems; nearly all known specimens of both species were reared exclusively from branches of <i>Fraxinus</i> species, while only few specimens have been caught on yellow flowers of Asteraceae, and few others were found walking on fallen dead branches, or hiding under bark (Szallies 2001; De La Rosa pers. comm.).</p> <p> The larva of <i>A. magnanii</i> develops preferably in the trunk and in large size branches of its host plant, boring long, tortuous galleries under the bark (Fig. 64); the larval development takes two years, and the imago spends the second winter as adult in its pupal cell, ready to emerge in early spring.</p> <p> Other species of <i>Anthaxia</i> which emerged from samples of <i>Fraxinus</i> collected in the same locality are the following: <i>A.</i> (<i>Anthaxia</i>) <i>
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A new, software-based methodology to recognize collapsed buildings utilizes classification of satellite images combined with height variation information. The methodology was demonstrated in a full-scale, real-life scenario by a team led by Prof. Valerio Baiocchi of the University of Rome. According to Baiocchi, the team’s work was intended to demonstrate the methodology on actual data available for the entire city of L’Aquila in the Abruzzo region of central Italy, in an actual and complete simulation of quick damage assessment in a real emergency. The team utilized satellite imagery of the city of L’Aquila, which experienced a magnitude 6.3 earthquake on April 6, 2009. The work demonstrated a robust classification of collapsed structures that was completed quickly and with good confidence
Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) mannaea Baiocchi, 2011, n. sp.
No full textAnthaxia (Haplanthaxia) mannaea n. sp. (Figs. 5,7,8,19,20,21,33,41,47,53,58,61) Description of holotype 3 (Fig. 5). Body rather short, subparallel, more strongly convex ventrally; length: 3.4 mm, maximum width at humeral height: 1.3 mm, length/width ratio: 2.6 times longer than wide; head and lateral sides of pronotum green, scutellum and large discal pronotal area dark graysh-green, elytra olive-green, whole dorsal surface with silky lustre, ventral surface of pronotum black with strong, dark green tinge, ventral abdominal surface black, antennae and legs black with green reflection. Head (Fig. 19) as wide as anterior pronotal margin; eyes large, slightly projecting beyond outline of head; vertex very wide (0.5 times as wide as width of head), feebly convex, glabrate; frons (Fig. 33) wide, weakly bilobate; inner ocular margins straight, slightly divergent on upper portion of frons, parallel on vertex; sculpture of vertex very weak; frontal sculpture shallow, irregularly areolate, with oblong, larger cells in the mid area; cell bottom composed of several glossy microcells, with their own, tiny, central grain; frontal pubescence yellowish, sparse, very short, semierect; clypeus short, weakly prominent, with slightly converging lateral margins and feebly arched anterior edge. Antennae (Fig. 41) as long as middle pronotal length; antennomeres strongly convex; scape club-shaped, with inner margin strongly gibbous; pedicel suboval, 1.3 times longer than wide; antennomere 3 widely triangular, as long as pedicel; antennomeres 4 – 10 subtriangular, as long as wide, rather drop-shaped; last antennomere acutely oblong. Pronotum (Fig. 19) transverse, 1.4 times wider than long, distinctly flattened on the disc, with maximum width anteriad midlength; anterior margin with strongly prominent central lobe; lateral margins weakly arched on mid portion, slightly sinuately narrowed before the rectangular posterior angles; posterior margin very slightly arched backward in middle; superficial sculpture areolate, consisting of large, irregular cells, with poorly raised borders, hardly visible on central discal area; basal microsculpture the same as on frons, consisting of numerous, tight microcells, each with a tiny central grain; lateroposterior depressions absent; pronotal pubescence yellowish, short, erect, frontally oriented, slightly thicker and more visible on lateral sides. Scutellum (Fig. 19) as long as wide, subtriangular, finely microreticulate. Elytra subparallel, 1.9 times longer than wide, widest at humeri, feebly narrowed in middle, shortly tapering at apical 1 / 5; basal transverse depressions short, wide, moderately deep, present only near humeral angles; humeral swellings poorly developed; lateral elytral groove very narrow, flat, reaching the apex; lateral margins slightly serrate on apical 1 / 4, till the separately rounded apex; epipleura complete, broad, parallel till the apex; surface more coarse on basal and postscutellar area, slightly depressed at basal 1 / 3, smoother in middle, slightly rugulose apically; basal microsculpture as on head and pronotum in slightly smaller scale; pubescence yellowish, sparse, short, and semierect. Ventral surface (Fig. 8) black, with stronger greenish tinge on pro- and metasternum; anterior prosternal margin straight; prosternal process with feebly curved lateral margins and rather long posterior apex; protrochanters unarmed; mesotrochanters with small, obtuse posterior spine; metatrochanters with acute posterior spine; superficial sculpture of prosternum and proepisternum widely, shallowly areolate as on dorsal part of pronotum; rest of pronotal ventral surface finely microsculptured; abdominal segments black, finely microreticulated; the whole ventral surface covered with short, sparse, yellowish pubescence. Anal ventrite (Fig. 53) about twice as wide as long, truncate, apex shallowly emarginate with slightly raised margins; anal pleurites deeply hollow till the apex. Legs straight, slender; meso- and metatibiae flattened; inner margins smooth in mesotibiae, indistinctly serrate in metatibiae (Fig. 47); foretarsomere 1 slightly longer than 2; meso- and metatarsomeres 1 almost twice as long as 2; tarsomere 5 slender, longer than 1 in all legs; claws long, slender, poorly curved, brown with darker distal portion. Aedeagus rather stout, 3.6 times longer than wide, anterior 1 / 2 bisinuate, posterior 1 / 2 directly tapered; maximun width anteriad midlength; parameres (Fig. 20) widely, sinuately expanded anteriorly; anterior portion of apical lobes rather convex, smoothly edged and very sharply pointed, posterior portion serrate, flattened externally, inner portion pocket-shaped, hosting the membranaceous, setigerous area; median lobe (Fig. 21) widest at midlength, 6 times longer than wide, anterior 1 / 2 regularly, acutely narrowed; dorsal surface vaulted, slightly, transversally rugulose; lateral margins partly, feebly serrate, apex smooth, acutely pointed; apodemes slightly sinuous, extending for more than 1 / 3 of total length. Variation. Very small species (2.8 – 3.4 mm); in the studied specimens, the size of males ranges from 3.4 mm x 1.3 mm of the holotype, to 2.9 mm x 1.1 mm, while the females vary from 3.4 mm x 1.3 mm to 2.8 mm x 1.1 mm of the allotype (Fig. 7). The discal pronotal sculpture is slightly variable in depth, and cell borders can be more or less raised and distinct; in one male paratype, the antennae are proportionally slightly longer. The two sexes show a slight dichromatism: males have head and pronotal lateral sides brighter green, discal pronotal area and scutellum dark graysh-green, elytra olive green, antennae, legs and ventral pronotal surface black with green reflection, abdominal ventral surface black; in females, the green colouration show a darker moss-green tinge and in some specimens the frons is bright purple; females also show the following morphological differences: head slightly narrower than in the male, frons moderately vaulted; eyes slightly smaller, not projecting beyond outline of head; antennae shorter, more compact, 0.9 times as long as middle pronotal length, last antennomere less elongate; elytra tapered at last 1 / 4. Ovipositor of allotype illustrated (Fig. 58). Specimens examined. Holotype, 3: Iran, (Kordestān), 1500 m., 22 km N Kāmyārān, N 34 ° 57 ’ 20.6 ’’ E 46 ° 58 ’ 38.4 ’’, 14 – 15.V. 2010, Baiocchi leg. / ex larva Crataegus sp. 8.VI. 2010; allotype, Ƥ: Iran, (Kordestān), 1500 m., 22 km N Kāmyārān, N 34 ° 57 ’ 20.6 ’’ E 46 ° 58 ’ 38.4 ’’, 8 – 9.V. 2009, Baiocchi leg. / ex larva Crataegus sp. 11.VI. 2009; paratypes: Iran, (Kordestān), 1500 m., 22 km N Kāmyārān, N 34 ° 57 ’ 20.6 ’’ E 46 ° 58 ’ 38.4 ’’, 8 – 9.V. 2009, Baiocchi leg. / ex larva Crataegus sp. 11.VI.09 (1 3 1 Ƥ), 15.VI. 2010 (1 3); Iran, (Kordestān), 1500 m., 22 km N Kāmyārān, N 34 ° 57 ’ 20.6 ’’ E 46 ° 58 ’ 38.4 ’’, 14 – 15.V. 2010, Baiocchi leg. / ex larva Crataegus sp. 8.VI. 2010 (2 ƤƤ), 15.V. 2011 (2 ƤƤ), 17.V. 2011 (1 Ƥ), 19.V. 2011 (1 Ƥ), 21.V. – 4.VI. 2011 (3 3 1 Ƥ); Iran, (Kordestān), 1500 m., 22 km N Kāmyārān, N 34 ° 57 ’ 20.6 ’’ E 46 ° 58 ’ 38.4 ’’, 14.V. 2010, Gianasso leg. / ex larva Prunus sp. 16.VI. 2010 (1 Ƥ); Iran, (Kordestān), 1500 m., 22 km N Kāmyārān, N 34 ° 57 ’ 20.6 ’’ E 46 ° 58 ’ 38.4 ’’, 14.V. 2010, Gianasso leg. / ex larva Crataegus sp. 12.V. 2011 (1 Ƥ). The holotype, allotype and some paratypes are deposited in D. Baiocchi collection (Rome, Italy); paratypes in the following collections: National Musem of Prague (Czech Rep.), and D. Gianasso (Castelnuovo Don Bosco, Italy). Comments. The main distinctive character of A. mannaea is the peculiar pattern of basal microsculpture, which is present also in its closest species, A. (Haplanthaxia) parvula Baiocchi & Magnani 2006 (Fig. 6), another endemic species of Iran; because of this morphological feature, and for other analogies, the two species are brought together to form the new A. parvula species-group of which a short definition is given herein. The characters state that separate the two species are listed in table 2. Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) mannaea n. sp. Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) parvula Baiocchi & Magnani, 2006 Male with brighter green colouration, female more moss-green Bronze-green species; sexual dichromatism absent Body (Fig. 5) shorter, more stout (2.6 times longer than wide) Body (Fig. 6) more slender (2.8 times longer than wide) Antennae (Fig. 41) as long as middle pronotal length, scape Antennae (Fig. 42) 1.1 times as long as middle pronotal strongly club-shaped, antennomere 3 strongly triangular length, scape subconically lengthened, antennomere 3 weakly triangular Head (Fig. 19) as wide as anterior pronotal margin; eyes promi- Head (Fig. 22) slightly narrower than anterior pronotal marnent in the male, not prominent in the female; vertex wider (0.5 gin; eyes not prominent in both sexes; vertex narrower (0.4 times as wide as width of head); frons (Fig. 33) slightly bilobate times as wide as width of head); frons (Fig. 34) very in the male, more distinctly convex in the female; inner ocular slightly convex in both sexes; inner ocular margins subparmargins slightly divergent on upper frontal portion, parallel on allel, slightly converging on vertex; sculpture of frons conthe vertex; sculpture of frons consisting of oblong, larger cells sisting of smaller, rather regular cells; clypeus flat, lateral on mid area; clypeus weakly prominent, lateral margins slightly margins strongly convergent, anterior margin deeply, trianconvergent, anterior margin roundly emarginate gularly emarginate Pronotum: anterior margin (Fig. 19) with strongly prominent Pronotum: anterior margin (Fig. 22) very slightly bisinuate central lobe; lateral margins weakly arched at midlength with feeble central lobe; lateral margins subparallel at mid- lenght Elytra very slightly sinuate at midlength, tapered on posterior 1 / Elytra more strongly narrowed at midlength, tapered on last 5 in the male, on posterior 1 / 4 in the female 1 / 4 Anal ventrite (Fig. 53) truncate in both sexes, apex smooth, Anal ventrite (Fig. 54) with subrounded, weakly serrate shallowly emarginate; anal pleurites deeply hollow till the apex apex in the male, truncate, slightly emarginate in the female; anal pleurites concave only laterally, flat at apex Inner margins of male metatibiae (Fig. 47) straight, indistinctly Inner margins of male metatibiae (Fig. 48) slightly incurved serrate distally; claws slightly thicker, dark brown with darker inward, with small apical spur; claws slightly thinner, pale tips, not enlarged at base brown with dark tips, weakly enlarged at base Aedeagus more stout, 3.5 times longer than wide, widest ante- Aedeagus more slender, 4.5 times longer than wide, more riad midlength, distinctly narrowed posteriorly; dorsal surface subparallel; dorsal surface of apical lobes (Fig. 23) shalof apical lobes (Fig. 20) smooth; median lobe (Fig. 21) widest at lowly rugose; median lobe (Fig. 24) more subparallel, latmidlength, lateral margins very slightly serrate, central portion eral margins not serrate, central portion of dorsal surface of dorsal surface slightly rugulose more coarsely rugose Bionomy and distribution. Anthaxia mannaea is endemic to Iran, and has never been caught in the nature; all the studied specimens have emerged in laboratory from small twigs of Crataegus sp. and Prunus sp. collected 22 km north of Kāmyārān, in the northwestern Iranian province of Kordestān. The larval development lasts presumably one year. At present it is not known whether A. mannaea is a flower visitor. Other species of Anthaxia that have emerged from the same samples of wood are the following: A. (Haplanthaxia) winkleri ssp. winkleri Obenberger, 1914, A. (Haplanthaxia) astoreth Obenberger, 1934 (first record for this species in Iran) and A. (Anthaxia) tractata Abeille de Perrin, 1901, obtained from thin twigs of Crataegus, while from branches of Prunus emerged numerous specimens of A. (Haplanthaxia) winkleri ssp. winkleri Obenberger, 1914, together with few specimens of A. (Cratomerus) meda n. sp., another new species described below, in this article. Etymology. Anthaxia mannaea is named in honor of the the Mannaeans, an ancient Iranian people that lived from 10 th to 7 th century BC in the area situated to the east and to the south of the Orūmīye lake, not far from the place where this new species was found. Definition of the A. parvula species-group. Very small to small-sized, subparallel, more strongly convex ventrally; dorsal surface olive- to moss-green or copper-green, with silky lustre, discal area of pronotum sometimes dark graysh-black; ventral surface bronze, or black with greenish tinge; whole body furnished with sparse, short, yellowish or whitish pubescence. Head slightly narrower or as wide as anterior pronotal margin; frons wide, weakly convex, or with very feeble median groove; vertex wide, 0.4 – 0.5 times as wide as width of head; eyes large, slightly projecting beyond outline of head in males, not in females, inner ocular margins straight, subparallel; clypeus short, flat or feebly prominent, anterior margin roundly or triangularly emarginate. Antennae short, slightly longer or as long as middle pronotal length, antennomeres 3 – 10 subtriangular, rather globose, teardrop-shaped, mostly as wide as long. Pronotum transverse, 1.4 – 1.5 times as wide as long, moderately convex, rather flat on disc, with lateroposterior depressions very shallow or completely absent, lateral margins feebly arched, slightly sinuate before posterior angles, anterior margin slightly bisinuate, or with strongly prominent central lobe, posterior margin slightly arched backward. Scutellum subtriangular, as long as wide, finely microsculptured. Elytra moderately convex, 1.9 – 2.3 times as long as wide, slightly wedge-shaped; humeral swellings poorly developed; basal transverse depression wide, complete or not reaching the scutellum; epipleura well developed, reaching the elytral apex; marginal elytral groove flat, complete, very narrow; posterior 1 / 4 of lateral margins slightly serrate; one shallow depression present at basal elytral 1 / 3. Legs straight, slender, rather flattened, inner margin of metatibiae very weakly serrate, or smooth with apex slightly incurved inward; tarsal claws small, simply hook-shaped, smooth or very weakly enlarged at base. Superficial sculpture of frons and pronotum areolate, with borders more strongly raised on frons and pronotal lateral sides, hardly visible on the pronotal disc; basal microsculpture of frons, pronotum and elytra consisting of very dense, tiny microcells with their own central grain, appreciable only at high magnification; sculpture of ventral pronotal surface irregularly, widely areolate, with very fine basal microsculpture; ventral abdominal surface finely microreticulate. Anal ventrite sub-rounded, or truncate and shallowly emarginate. Aedeagus 3.6 – 4.6 times as long as wide, bisinuate and widest anteriad midlenght, straightly tapered on posterior 1 / 2, apical lobes acutely pointed, with lateral margins serrate on posterior 1 / 2; median lobe acutely pointed, rather rugulose on dorsal surface, lateral margins smooth, or very feebly serrate. Sexual dimorphism. Females of both species differ from males by shorter antennae, with more rounded last antennomere, not prominent eyes, simply convex frons, unmodified metatibiae, truncate or less emarginate anal ventrite. Sexual dichromatism in A. parvula is present only in frons colouration, in A. mannaea in the overall colouration. Comments. The most typical morphological feature of the group is the unusual structure of basal microsculpture of head and dorsal surface, consisting in an homogenous, tight network of microcells, giving the body a silky lustre that in other species is given by a more confused, rugulose microsculpture, especially on elytra; a further distinctive feature is the shape of antennomeres 3 – 10, rather globose, teardrop-shaped. At present both the two species composing the species-group are endemic to Iran. No convergence of foodplant requirements has been observed so far, and the larvae of the two species develop in plants of different families, (A parvula on Anacardiaceae and A. mannaea on Rosaceae). Specimens of A. (Haplanthaxia) parvula Baiocchi & Magnani, 2006, when freshly emerged, show a pair of white pulvurulent spots at basal elytral 1 / 3; the same wax-like dust covers the laterobasal pronotal depressions, the mesepimeron, part of basal and anal pleurites, and is sparsely present on the rest of the whole body (see Fig. 2 in Baiocchi & Magnani 2006). Other species of Anthaxia (i.e. A. (Haplanthaxia) sudana Obenberger, 1928, A. (H.) angustipennis (Klug), 1829) show pulvurulent parts of body, but never elytral spots.Published as part of Baiocchi, Daniele, 2011, Three new species of Anthaxia Eschscholtz, 1829 from Iran (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), pp. 1-23 in Zootaxa 2932 on pages 6-10, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.27805
Anthaxia (Cratomerus) meda Baiocchi, 2011, n. sp.
No full textAnthaxia (Cratomerus) meda n. sp. (Figs. 9,11,12,25,26,27,35,43,49,55,59,62) Description of holotype 3 (Fig. 9). Body subparallel, rather flat dorsally; length: 5.3 mm., maximum width at mid pronotum: 1.9 mm., length/width ratio: 2.8 times longer than wide. Head (Fig. 25) slightly narrower than anterior pronotal margin; vertex flat, very narrow, 0.3 times as wide as width of head; eyes large, slightly projecting beyond outline of head; inner ocular margins moderately converging on the vertex; space between lower ocular margin and antennal fossa extremely reduced; frons (Fig. 35) bilobate with distinct median groove, slightly wider at midlength; sculpture areolate, shallow, irregular on vertex, deeper, more regular on the frons, consisting of cells with smooth, glossy bottom and large flat, eccentric setigerous grain; clypeal process short, moderately prominent, with punctate, deeply triangularly emarginate anterior margin; pubescence of vertex extremely short; frons covered with long, erect, whitish hair, slightly divergent along the central groove, convergent on frontoclypeal angles. Antennae (Fig. 43) dark green, 1.2 times longer than middle pronotal length; scape long, slender, club-shaped, with gibbous inner margin, straight externally; pedicel pear-shaped, slightly longer than wide, inner margin more convex than the outer one; antennomere 3 weakly triangular, 1.2 times longer than 2; antennomeres 4 – 6 widely triangular, slightly wider than long; antennomeres 7 – 10 subtrapezoidal, wider than long; last antennomere ovoidal, poorly elongate. Pronotum (Fig. 25) transverse, 1.6 times wider than long, widest at midlength; anterior margin shallowly bisinuate, with barely prominent central lobe; anterior angles slightly obtuse; lateral margins regularly arched at midlength, straight on frontal and basal 1 / 3; posterior angles slightly obtuse; posterior margin as wide as elytral base, very slightly arched backwards in middle; lateroposterior depressions deep, wide; pronotal sculpture areolate, consisting of large, rather deep, polygonal cells on lateral sides, discal sculpture more shallow, rather confused on the mid-anterior portion, slightly smaller and transversally lengthened on mid-posterior portion; cell bottom smooth, glossy, with small, rounded, setigerous grain, often combined with small comma-shaped crests; pronotal pubescence consisting of transparent, hardly visible, erect setae. Scutellum (Fig. 25) black, subpentagonal, wider than long, microreticulate, depressed on anterior portion. Elytra 2.2 times longer than wide, widest at humeri, subparallel at midlength, directly tapered on distal 1 / 3; humeral swellings well developed; basal transverse depressions deep, complete, reaching the scutellum, irregularly widened at humeral angles; apex slightly protracted and incurved downward, widely, angulately separated; lateral elytral groove smooth, very narrow on basal 2 / 3, slightly wider at apical 1 / 3, ending before the deeply serrate apex; lateral margins serrate on apical 1 / 3; epipleura regular, expiring at the apex; basal 1 / 2 of elytral surface slightly more convex than pronotum, more coarsely sculptured, distal 1 / 2 rather flattened, smoother, more brilliant; elytral pubescence transparent, scarcely visible, very short and erect. Legs. All tibiae strongly flattened, outer margins of pro- and mesotibiae widely, distinctly serrate; all tarsomeres narrow, poorly expanded; distal 1 / 2 of metatibiae (Fig. 65) slightly bent outwards; meso- and metatibiae (Fig. 49) weakly serrate on inner margin, with one prolonged, slightly crenate apical spur, apparently formed by the fusion of more teeth; protarsomere 1 slightly longer than each of 2 – 4; basal mesotarsomere 1.5 times longer than each of 2 – 4; metatarsomere 1 twice as long as each of 2 – 4; tarsomere 5 slender, longer than tarsomere 1 in anterior legs, shorter in middle and posterior legs; claws moderately long, sharp, slender, slightly enlarged and darker at base. Ventral surface (Fig. 12) green, with strong golden tinge on abdomen; anterior prosternal margin straight; prosternal process wide, lateral margins strongly incurved, posterior apex wide, short; posterior end of central metasternal suture not divergent; all trochanters smooth; ventral pronotal sculpture areolate; prosternal sculpture irregular, shallow, transversally enlarged along anterior margin, with cell bottom confusedly wrinkled; sculpture on prosternal process denser and deeper; sculpture of proepisternum larger, shallow, more regular, consisting of well defined cells with glossy bottom and eccentric pore; remainder of pronotal underside rather brilliant with regular, very shallow sculpture; ventral abdominal surface brilliant, with very shallow sculpture; first abdominal ventrite with more regularly aerolate sculpture, the following ones with only faint remnants of variolate sculpture; whole ventral surface covered with long, transparent setae, more evident on lateral sides and legs. Anal ventrite (Fig. 55) slightly wider than long, subrounded, strongly depressed along the apical margin, lateral margins irregularly serrate. Aedeagus largely subparallel, slightly narrowed at the junction with the phallobasis; apical 1 / 5 of parameres (Fig. 26) strongly narrowed in a bottleneck shape, with tegument less chitinous and more transparent; setigerous area located upon the narrow preapical area; median lobe (Fig. 27) progressively tapered from base to the acute but not sharp apex; basal apodemes extending for 1 / 3 of total length. Variation. Medium-sized species (5.0 – 7.6 mm); dimensions of males range from 5.1 mm x 1.9 mm to 7.6 mm x 2.6 mm (holotype: 5.2 mm x 1.9 mm), while the females vary from 5.0 mm x 1.8 mm to 7.0 mm x 2.6 mm (allotype: 6.6 mm x 2.4 mm). This new species shows an extreme sexual dichromatism: male (Fig. 9) entirely green, with strong golden tinge, two suffused black parallel bands on pronotal disc, space between bands narrow, irregularly shaped, golden to blueish green, legs and antennae deep green, ventral side golden green; female (Fig. 11) with head, pronotum and ventral side crimson-red, black pronotal bands wider than in the male, almost completely fused together, with the mid space reduced to a short, thin, filament, blueish in the posterior portion, elytra deep blue, with base and a short basal tract of the suture narrowly bordered with a lighter greenish tinge; legs and antennae black, tarsi with slight greenish tinge; the female differs from the male also with the following morphological features: body more stout, basal abdominal pleurites distinctly visible from above, last antennomere shorter, more angulated, eyes slightly smaller, not projecting beyond outline of head, anal ventrite notched. Ovipositor of one female paratype illustrated (Fig. 59). Despite the extreme sexual dichromatism, this new species shows little variability; the golden tinge of males is deeper in some specimens, while the smallest female, a wild-caught specimen, has a more greenish elytral colouration. Anthaxia (Cratomerus) meda n. sp. Anthaxia (Cratomerus) mirabilis Zicharev, 1918 Male (Fig. 9): green with strong golden tinge; pronotal black Male (Fig. 10): green with paler golden tinge; posterior portion bands more parallel, space between bands narrower than of pronotal black bands narrowed, space between the bands width of each band; female: head, pronotum and ventral sur- much wider than width of each band; female: head, pronotum face bright carmin-red; space between pronotal bands and ventral surface more golden-red; space between the pronoextremely reduced; elytra deep blue tal bands much wider; elytra green Body subparallel; legs and antennae weaker Body more wedge-shaped; legs and antennae stronger Head (Fig. 25): vertex flat, slightly wider; eyes slightly pro- Head (Fig. 28): vertex feebly depressed, slightly narrower; jecting beyond outline of head; sculpture of frons areolate eyes not projecting beyond outline of head; sculpture of frons (Fig. 35), consisting of cells with thin border and small cen- (Fig. 36) more foveate, consisting of cells rather widely sepatral grain; anterior margin of clypeus punctate, deeply trian- rated, with very large, flat central grain; anterior margin of gularly emarginate clypeus smooth, more roundly emarginate Pronotum (Fig. 25) more flat on the disc, widest at anterior 1 / Pronotum (Fig. 28) more convex on the disc, widest at poste- 2; anterior margin shallowly bisinuate, with very feeble cen- rior 1 / 2; anterior margin slightly deeper, with slightly more tral lobe; lateral margins arched in middle, rather straight on pronounced central lobe; lateral margins regularly arched; anterior and posterior 1 / 3; sculpture irregular, slightly trans- sculpture more strongly lengthened on the disc; sculpture of versally enlarged on the disc; sculpture of lateral sides con- lateral sides consisting of smaller polygonal cells, with large sisting of large polygonal cells with medium-sized central central grains grain and comma-shaped crests Scutellum (Fig. 25) black Scutellum (Fig. 28) green Elytra subparallel, distal portion more flat, directly tapered Elytra more wedge-shaped and convex, more caudiform, on apical 40 % of their length; surface more coarsely sculp- tapered on apical 45 % of their length; surface more smoothly tured at base sculptured at base Anal ventrite of male subrounded (Fig. 55) Anal ventrite of male subtruncate (Fig. 56) Legs weaker; tibiae strongly flattened; outer margins of pro- Legs stronger; tibiae thicker; outer margins of pro- and and mesotibiae distinctly, widely dentate; inner margins of mesotibiae very feebly dentate; inner margins of meso- and meso- and metatibiae (Fig. 49) very weakly serrate, with metatibiae (Fig. 50) not serrate, with strong single apical spur, multidentate apical spur prolonged backwards; metatibie oriented inward; metatibiae straight slightly bent outwards Aedeagus bottle-shaped; apical 1 / 5 of parameres (Fig. 26) Aedeagus largely subparallel, slightly wider at midlength; strongly narrowed, hosting wide setigerous areas; median apex of parameres (Fig. 29) strongly flattened, deeply grooved lobe (Fig. 27) progressively tapered from base to the acute along the sharp, finely crenulated lateral margin; setigerous but not sharp apex; lateral edges of phallobasis less emargin- area indistinct, very narrow, situated along the lateroapical ate margin; median lobe (Fig. 30) more parallel and more sharply pointed; lateral margins of phallobasis strongly emarginate Specimens examined. Holotype, 3: Iran, (Kordestān), 1500 m., 21 – 22 km N Kāmyārān, 34 ° 57 ’ 20.6 ’’N 046° 58 ’ 38.4 ’’E, 10 – 11.V. 2008, D. Gianasso leg.; allotype, Ƥ: Iran, (Āzarbāyġān-e Ġarbī), Ošnūye, 37 ° 16 ’N 45 °08’E, (S Orūmīye), 1500 m., 27.V.05, D. Baiocchi leg. / ex larva Prunus sp., April 2007; paratypes: same data as holotype (2 3 1 Ƥ); same data as allotype (1 3 3 ƤƤ); Iran, Zanġān, m. 1830, SW of Sorkhed Dizaj, 36 ° 47 ’08”N 48 ° 51 ’ 34 ”E, 3.VI. 2011 D. Baiocchi leg. (1 3 1 Ƥ); Iran, Āzarbāyġān-e Ġarbī, m. 1.400, 40 km. S. Orūmīye, 15.V. 2002, leg. G. Magnani / ex larva Prunus sp., 25.IV. 2004 (1 Ƥ); Iran, Kordestān, 1700 m., 15 – 20 km N Kāmyārān, 12.V. 2002, leg. G. Magnani (1 3); Iran, (Kordestān), 1500 m., 22 km N Kāmyārān, 34 ° 57 ’ 20.6 ’’N 046° 58 ’ 38.4 ’’E, 14 – 15.V. 2010, D. Baiocchi leg. (1 3); N Iran, Kordestān, 15 km N Kāmyārān, 25.V. 2005, 1700 m., leg. D. Gianasso (1 Ƥ); NW Iran, Āzarbāyġān-e Ġarbī, 40 km S Orūmīye, 27.V. 2005, m. 1400, leg. D. Gianasso / ex larva Prunus dulcis, 2.V. 2006 (1 Ƥ); Iran, (Kordestān), 1500 m., 21 – 22 km N Kāmyārān, 34 ° 57 ’ 20.6 ’’N 046° 58 ’ 38.4 ’’E, 8 – 9.V. 2009, D. Gianasso leg. / ex larva Prunus sp. 25.III. 2010 (1 Ƥ), 29.III. 2011 (1 Ƥ); Iran, (Kordestān), 1500 m., 21 – 22 km N Kāmyārān, 34 ° 57 ’ 20.6 ’’N 046° 58 ’ 38.4 ’’E, 8 – 9.V. 2009, D. Gianasso leg. / ex larva Prunus sp. 22.IV. 2010 (1 3); Iran, (Kordestān), 1500 m., 22 km N Kāmyārān, 34 ° 57 ’ 20.6 ’’N 046° 58 ’ 38.4 ’’E, 14 – 15.V. 2010, D. Gianasso leg. (1 Ƥ). The holotype, allotype and some paratypes are deposited in D. Baiocchi coll. (Rome, Italy); paratypes in the following collections: National Musem of Prague (Czech Rep.), D. Gianasso (Castelnuovo Don Bosco, Italy), and G. Magnani (Cesena, Italy). Comments. According to its overall aspect and morphological features such as antennal shape, pronotal sculpture, presence of parallel bands on pronotum, notched anal ventrite of the female, sexual dichromatism, etc., this new species clearly belongs to the subgenus Cratomerus Solier, 1833 as defined by Bílý (1980). In sight of an eventual clarification of the taxonomical position of other morphologically similar species from Middle East and Central Asia, for the moment A. meda is tentatively included in the A. nupta species-group; at present its most similar species is A. (Cratomerus) mirabilis Zicharev, 1918 (Fig. 10), a species found in eastern Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan, and likely to exist also in northwestern Iran. For species comparison, a typical male specimen of A. mirabilis from Armenia (Vayk, Vayots’ Dzor prov.) was used and illustrated. The characters that allow easily differentiate both species are listed in table 3. Bionomy and distribution. Anthaxia meda is found mostly in northwestern Iran, in the provinces of Kordestān and Āzarbāyġān-e Ġarbī, close to the border with Turkey and Iraq, countries where this new species is also likely to be found, and it has recently been collected also in the north central province of Zanġān, on the Elburs mountains. Some of the studied specimens were reared from branches of Prunus sp., while the wild caught ones were collected on flowers nearby to plants of Rosaceae with nearly or completely dead branches. Etymology. Anthaxia meda is named after the Medes, one of the most important ancient Iranian people, that settled in the northwestern part of the country since the second millennium B.C., and founded the Great Median Empire, that extended from eastern Turkey and Iraq, eastwards to Afghanistan and Pakistan; they were famous, among other things, for the elegant and colourful clothes wore by their nobles, comparable to the beautiful habitus of this new species.Published as part of Baiocchi, Daniele, 2011, Three new species of Anthaxia Eschscholtz, 1829 from Iran (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), pp. 1-23 in Zootaxa 2932 on pages 10-22, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.27805
ACCURACY OF 1908 HIGH TO MEDIUM SCALE CARTOGRAPHY OF ROME AND ITS SURROUNDINGS AND RELATED GEOREFERENCING PROBLEMS
No full textPreliminary attempts to georeference maps of early twentieth century made by the Military Geographic Institute (IGM, the Italian geodetic agency) for the city of Rome and its surroundings, reported residual errors larger than errors observed on similar maps. Previous studies carried out on one or two century older maps of the same area, showed similar or even smaller errors (Baiocchi and Lelo 2005). Six sheets of the "City of Rome and its surroundings" map in scale 1:5 000 dated 1908 have been studied. The identified errors can be referred to the different system of geodetic projection and geodetic datum or to the derivation of some details from maps at smaller scale, but in this case historic documents seem to suggest a different explanation. Parameters useful to perform the transformation of the geodetic systems used in historical maps to modern systems are not known; for this reason until now the various attempts of georeferencing maps of this type were based on collimation of points recognizable on modern cartographies such as corners of historical buildings. This method has often given unsatisfactory results; therefore it was decided to proceed by determining the parameters for the transformation of geodetic datum. The history of geodetic systems used in Italy at the beginning of the 20th century is complex and, in the past, this has led some researcher to misinterpretations. For this reason a full explanation of geodetic systems used in Italy in this period is reported below. Since the parameters of the projection used for the maps in our case study are not known for sure, the reprojection was considered the only way for a correct georeferencing
Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) elamita Baiocchi, 2015, sp. nov.
No full textAnthaxia (Haplanthaxia) elamita sp. nov. (Figs. 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 45, 50, 55, 60, 61, 70, 75, 80, 85, 86, 87, 88, 95, 97) Description of the male holotype (Figs. 29, 30). Body subcylindrical, moderately convex dorsally, strongly convex ventrally; length: 5.2 mm; maximum width at anterior 1 / 2 of pronotum and at mid length of abdomen: 1.8 mm; length to width ratio: 2.8 times longer than wide. Dorsal colouration green, with two blackish, indistinct, well separated maculae on pronotum, and extensive golden tinge on elytra; frons, antennae, legs and tarsi green with golden tinge; ventral colouration green, abdomen with silky lustre and strong golden tinge (Fig. 30); claws yellowish; pubescence whitish. Head slightly narrower than anterior pronotal margin; eyes large, slightly projecting beyond outline of head; vertex flat, narrow, 0.35 times as wide as width of head; frons (Fig. 33) rather narrow, widest at mid height, 0.5 times as wide as width of head, slightly bilobate, with distinct median groove; inner ocular margins very slightly sshaped, feebly converging on vertex; fronto-clypeal area strongly depressed; clypeus of average length, flattened, lateral margins slightly convergent, anterior margin deeply triangularly incised; sculpture of frons shallowly foveate, consisting of irregular oblong foveae with microreticulate, glossy bottom, and tiny, eccentric, setigerous pore; interspaces finely microreticulate; sculpture of vertex shallow, areolate, consisting of irregular polygonal cells with slightly microsculptured bottom, well raised dark borders and inconspicuous setigerous pore; frontal pubescence short, recumbent and transparent, slightly divergent on upper part, convergent on fronto-clypeal area; pubescence of vertex very short, prostrate, visible only at high magnification. Antennae (Fig. 45) massively enlarged, just slightly longer than pronotal length in midline; antennomeres compact, strongly flattened and bilobate; scape stout, club-shaped, slender basally, 2.4 times longer than wide, with inner margin strongly gibbous; pedicel short, pear-shaped, as long as wide; antennomere 3 broadly triangular, as long as pedicel; antennomeres 4–10 subtrapezoidal, asymmetrically enlarged on both sides, antennomere 7 being the largest, 1.15 times wider than long; last antennomere subpentagonal. Pronotum slightly transverse, fairly convex, 1.35 times wider than long, widest in anterior 1 / 2; anterior margin weakly bisinuate, very feebly lobate in middle; anterior angles slightly obtuse; lateral margins weakly arched on anterior 1 / 2, subdirectly narrowed on posterior 1 / 2; posterior angles slightly obtuse; posterior margin dark, completely smooth, weakly incurved backward; lateral pronotal carina hardly reaching mid lateral pronotal length, sharp only in part proximal to laterobasal pronotal corner; lateroposterior depressions small, only feebly indicated; pronotal sculpture areolate, homogeneus, consisting of irregular polygonal cells, slightly smaller and shallower on mid anterior part; cell bottom glossy, smooth, with central or eccentric well raised small grain, cell borders thicker in mid posterior area; pronotal pubescence very short, semi-erect. Scutellum subpentagonal, finely microsculptured. Elytra rather vaulted, 2.1 times longer than wide at base, slightly sinuate and feebly narrowed at mid length, shortly, weakly tapered on apical 1 / 4; elytral base as wide as posterior pronotal margin, slightly bisinuous, with sharp laterobasal angles; basal transverse depressions rather deep, roughly irregular, not reaching the scutellum; humeral swellings weakly developed; a wide shallow depression on each elytron at 1 / 3 of the length, proximal to the suture; lateral elytral groove narrow, flat, not reaching the apex; lateral margin moderately serrate on posterior 1 / 3; epipleura wide at base, distinctly narrowed and serrate posterior to humeri, parallel on posterior 1 / 2, disappearing at apex; apices separately, angularly rounded and sloped; elytral suture weakly raised on apical 1 / 3; elytral sculpture rough and coarse in post-scutellar area, finely imbricate-punctulate on the remaining surface; elytral pubescence very short, strongly erect, hardly noticeable. Ventral side (Fig. 30) strongly convex; anterior prosternal margin deeply arched; prosternal process rather wide, with lateral margins fairly incurved, posterior angles strongly pronounced, posterior apophyses long; prosternal sculpture foveate-reticulate, denser and smaller on mid anterior part and prosternal process, cell bottom glossy, slightly microsculptured, with tiny central setigerous pore; sculpture of proepisternum large, areolate, cell bottom rather glossy, with large pore; mesoepisternum smooth, glossy, scarcely sculptured; mesosternum, metaepisternum, metasternum and all coxae, densely foveate-reticulate, except for a small, posterior part of metasternum; posterior end of central metasternal suture shortly and distinctly divergent, with slightly raised edges; posterior metacoxal margin slightly and angularly sinuate proximally; protrochanters bearing an acute, protruding spine on anterior margin, meso- and metatrochanters smooth; basal abdominal segment deeply foveate-reticulate as on ventral pronotal surface; superficial sculpture of the remaining abdominal segments dense, confusedly variolatereticulate, with smooth, only finely microreticulate, posterior margins; sculpture of legs imbricate, with very fine basal microsculpture also on tarsi; whole ventral surface covered with sparse, rather long pubescence, thinner and sparser on abdomen. Anal ventrite subtriangular (Fig. 60), posterior 1 / 2 moderately and widely depressed along the irregularly, acutely dentate margin; apex subround, with rather wide, deep, subpentagonal notch. Legs. Foretibiae moderately incurved, with irregular outer margin; foretarsomeres 1–4 all subequal, tarsomere 5 longer; mesotibiae slightly incurved, flattened on posterior 1 / 2, outer margin becoming scabrous due to the strong, backwardly raised, setigerous follicles; inner margin feebly sinuous, smooth, with a double row of regularly spaced, short and hispid dark bristles; apex slightly widened, with a rough spur-like enlargement protruding inward; mesotarsomere 1 slightly longer than each of 2–4, tarsomere 5 as long as 1; metatibiae (Fig. 55) strongly flattened; inner margin smooth, feebly sinuous, with a double row of regularly spaced short and hispid dark bristles, as in the mesotibiae; apex slightly widened and acutely bent inward; outer bristles dark and stout; metatarsomere 1 longer than 2; metatarsomeres 3–4 slightly shorter than 2; tarsomere 5 slender, much longer than 4; all tarsal claws slender, feebly enlarged at base, moderately incurved; leg pubescence rather long, except on inner meso- and metatibial margins. Aedeagus. Tegmen (Fig. 75) fusiform, 5 times longer than wide, distinctly wider at mid length, less chitinous on apical and basal parts; basal 1 / 2 subcylindrical; anterior 1 / 2 of parameres slender, widely separated, apical 1 / 4 subparallel, apex rather sharp; membranaceous setigerous area short, narrow, indistinct, located along the hyaline outer apical margin; median lobe (Fig. 70) weakly chitinous, slightly darker at apex, wider basally, weakly vaulted; dorsal surface feebly, transversally striated; lateral margins smooth, straight; apex lanceolate, shortly, acutely pointed; basal apodemes thin, extending for 1 / 3 of total length. Variation. Small to medium size species (4.1 mm to 5.6 mm); body subparallel to slightly wedge-shaped, convex; the size of males ranges from 4.1 mm x 1.4 mm to 5.3 mm x 1.9 mm (holotype: 5.2 mm x 1.8 mm), while the females vary from 4.2 mm x 1.5 mm to 5.6 mm x 2.0 mm (allotype: 5.2 mm x 1.8 mm). Overall the morphological characters of Anthaxia (H.) elamita proved to be rather constant, though showing a considerable intraspecific variability in the following characters: - dorsal colouration: specimens with light golden green elytra are somewhat predominant, though an extensive deep golden orange elytral tinge is often present regardless of sex - the black pronotal spots are very variable in size and darkness, going from small, round, indistinctly shaded areas (Fig. 88), to well defined dark maculae, largely covering the pronotum (Fig. 87) - the frons can be more or less convex, with median groove always present and moderately deep - the antennae can be more or less developed and more or less intensely coloured in both sexes (Figs. 86–88) - widest point of the body usually located on anterior pronotal 1 / 2, rarely at elytral base - protibial outer carina often roughly, irregularly edged, especially on apical part The sexual dimorphism of this new species consists mainly in the different degree of development of the antennae, which in the male (Fig. 45) are slightly longer, on average 1.1 times longer than pronotal length in midline, and composed of strongly enlarged, mostly subtrapezoidal antennomeres, while in females (Fig. 50) the average length is 0.9 times as long as pronotal length in midline, and antennomeres are less developed; the female also differs in having a wider frons (Fig. 34), with shorter and thinner pubescence, slightly less narrowed elytra, inner margin of meso- and metatibiae less incurved and without a true apical spur, protrochanters with spine distinctly less developed than in males. Sexual dichromatism absent. Anal ventrite deeply notched in both sexes (Figs. 60, 61). Ovipositor of the allotype illustrated (Fig. 80). Specimens studied. Holotype ♂ (Figs. 29, 30): IRAN, (Lorestān), 1400 m., SW of Dorud, 33 ° 25 ' 18.53 "N 48 ° 59 ' 45.42 "E, 7.V. 2009 D.Baiocchi leg. // ex larva Acer sp. 14.IV. 2010 (DBCR); allotype ♀ (Figs. 31, 32): IRAN, (Kordestān), 1500 m., 22 km N Kāmyārān, 34 ° 57 ’ 20.6 ’’N 46 ° 58 ’ 38.4 ’’E, 14–15.V. 2010, D. Baiocchi leg. // ex larva Acer sp. 18.V. 2010 (DBCR); paratypes: Lorestān prov.: IRAN, (Lorestān), 1400 m., SW of Dorud, 33 ° 25 ' 18.53 "N 48 ° 59 ' 45.42 "E, 30.IV. 2007 D.Baiocchi leg. // ex larva Acer sp.: V. 2008 (1 ♂ 1 ♀ DBCR); same data, emerged 8.IV. 2009 (1 ♂ DBCR); same data, emerged 9.IV. 2009 (1 ♀ DBCR); IRAN, (Lorestān), 1400 m., SW of Dorud, 33 ° 25 ' 18.53 "N 48 ° 59 ' 45.42 "E, 7.V. 2009 D.Baiocchi leg. // ex larva Acer sp.: 10.V. 2009 (1 ♂ DBCR); same data, emerged 10–22.IV. 2010 (4 ♂♂ 11 ♀♀ DBCR, HMCM, MNCA, NMPC); same data, emerged 11.IV. 2011 (1 ♂ DBCR); IRAN, (Lorestān), 1400 m., SW of Dorud, 33 ° 25 ' 18.53 "N 48 ° 59 ' 45.42 "E, 7.V. 2009 D.Baiocchi leg. // ex larva Prunus sp.: 27.IV. 2010 (1 ♂ DBCR); same data, emerged 2.V. 2010 (1 ♀ DBCR); Iran – Lorestan, m. 1.500, 5/ 10 km. SW. Dorud, 22 / 23.IV. 2007 G. Magnani // ex larva Acer sp. (Dead adults in pupal cell) IX. 2009 (2 ♂♂ 1 ♀ GMCC); IRAN (Lorestān) 1500 m., 10–15 km SW Dorud, 33 ° 13 ’ 48 “N 49 ° 59 ’ 20.8 “E, 7.V. 2009 D.Gianasso leg. // Ex larva Acer monspessolanum ssp. 12.V. 2009 (4 ♂♂ 3 ♀♀ DGCC); same data, emerged 6.IV. 2010 (3 ♂♂ DGCC); same data, emerged 7.IV. 2010 (1 ♂ DGCC); same data, emerged 9.IV. 2010 (2 ♂♂ DGCC); same data, emerged 15.IV. 2010 (1 ♀ DGCC); same data, emerged 20.IV. 2010 (2 ♀♀ DGCC). Kordestān prov.: IRAN, (Kordestān), 1500 m., 22 km N Kāmyārān, 34 ° 57 ’ 20.6 ’’N 46 ° 58 ’ 38.4 ’’E, 8–9.V. 2009, D. Baiocchi leg. // ex larva Acer sp.: 19.IV. 2011 (1 ♂ DBCR); IRAN, (Kordestān), 1500 m., 22 km N Kāmyārān, 34 ° 57 ’ 20.6 ’’N 46 ° 58 ’ 38.4 ’’E, 14–15.V. 2010, D. Baiocchi leg. // ex larva Acer sp.: 18.V. 2010 (3 ♂♂ 2 ♀♀ DBCR, MSCL); same data, emerged 12.IV. 2011 (1 ♂ DBCR); same data, emerged 5.IV. 2012 (10 ♂♂ DBCR, MKCN, NMPC). Holotype, allotype and some of the paratypes are deposited in author’s collection (DBCR); rest of the paratypes in NMPC, DGCC, GMCC, HMCM, MKCN, MNCA, and MSCL. Remarks. At first, because of its overall aspect, and especially for the striking form of the male antennae, Anthaxia (H.) elamita sp. nov. was thought to belong to the subgenus Cratomerus Solier, 1833. It was only after a more profound study of its characters, that it turned out to be instead very close to A. (H.) schah (Figs. 13, 86) to which it is compared in the present study. Actually, while differences between males of these two species are quite evident, females are sometimes so similar to be hardly distinguishable. The morphological differences between the two species are listed in the following table. Anthaxia (H.) elamita sp. nov. Anthaxia (H.) schah Abeille de Perrin, 1904 Basal dorsal colouration bright green; pronotal dark spots Basal dorsal colouration green (Fig. 3) to golden green (Fig. usually indistinct (Fig. 88), sometimes very large and well 13); pronotal dark spots usually large and well defined (Fig. defined (Fig. 87); elytra green with slight golden lustre (Fig. 15); elytra always green at base, dull orange to deep red-purple 88) to largely golden red (Fig. 86) on the disc Antennae bright green to golden green in both sexes (Figs. Antennae bluish-black in males (Fig. 46), dark green in 45, 50), with stout and strongly developed antennomeres, females (Fig. 51), with antennomeres slender basally, normally asymmetrically enlarged on both sides; antennomeres 4–10 enlarged on inner side only; antennomeres 4–10 mostly subtrapezoidal subtriangular Pronotum weakly transverse, 1.3–1.4 times wider than long; Pronotum slightly more transverse, 1.3–1.5 times wider than anterior margin with very feeble central lobe, occasionally long; anterior margin with more evidently pronounced central absent lobe Ventral pronotal sculpture mostly foveate, cells more Ventral pronotal sculpture mostly areolate, cells more rounded; prosternal sculpture denser, smaller; lateral angles polygonal; prosternal sculpture wider, transversally lengthened and posterior apophyses of prosternal process less on anterior 1 / 2; lateral angles and posterior apophyses of pronounced; surface of abdominal segments more densely prosternal process narrower, more pronounced; surface of and roughly sculptured abdominal segments smoother, more sparsely sculptured Anal ventrite (Fig. 60, 61) subtriangular and deeply notched Anal ventrite subtruncate in males (Fig. 62), sub-triangular and in both sexes notched in females (Fig. 63) Aedeagus. Tegmen fusiform (Fig. 75), about 5 times longer Aedeagus. Tegmen (Fig. 76) slender and subparallel, than wide, always distinctly wider at mid length; anterior 1 / 2 proportionally longer, about 6 times longer than wide; median rather flattened; median lobe distinctly wider basally (Fig. lobe more subparallel (Fig. 71) 70) Bionomy and distribution. To emphasise the close relationships existing between species of this group, it is interesting to note that in the few localities from where it is currently known, Anthaxia (H.) elamita sp. nov. has been reared together with its closest species A. (H.) schah from the same wood samples of Acer and Prunus, and among the emerged specimens, some females of both species have proved to be extremely similar and almost impossible to distinguish, except for the subtle differences in the shape of antennomeres. The larva of this new species digs moderately long galleries in thin branches, mostly of Acer, and pupates in a rather deep cell (Fig. 85). Another species obtained from thicker branches of the same samples of Acer of both localities, was A. (A.) shirasensis Obenberger, 1940 (first hostplant record) (Note. Anthaxia (A.) shirasensis is currently “sub judice” for an eventual new synonymy, but is meanwhile reported herein with its current original name), while from samples of Prunus sp., together with a single pair of A. (H.) elamita sp. nov., we obtained numerous specimens of A. (H.) winkleri ssp. farsica Bílý, 1983. Currently, Anthaxia (H.) elamita sp. nov. is known only from two localities of the western Zagros range, in the Iranian provinces of Lorestān and Kordestān, but the species is expected to be more widespread in western Iran. Etymology. Anthaxia (H.) elamita sp. nov. is named in honour of the great people of Elamites, one of the most important ancient Iranian dynasties, that ruled for a longtime the region east of Mesopotamia, in southwestern Persia, from the second millennium BC to the mid first millennium AC.Published as part of Baiocchi, Daniele, 2015, A revision of the Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) schah Abeille de Perrin, 1904 species-group, with description of two new species from Iran (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Anthaxiini), pp. 57-91 in Zootaxa 3918 (1) on pages 68-71, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3918.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/28784
Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) cadusiana Baiocchi, 2015, sp. nov.
No full textAnthaxia (Haplanthaxia) cadusiana sp. nov. (Figs. 25, 26, 27, 28, 41, 42, 43, 44, 48, 53, 58, 66, 67, 73, 78, 83, 89, 90, 91, 95, 98) Misidentification: Anthaxia (s. str.) schah Abeille de Perrin, 1904 sensu Radjabi (1974: 38): in fact A. (H.) cadusiana sp. nov.; A. (H.) schah Abeille de Perrin, 1904 sensu Borumand (2002: 46): in fact A. (H.) cadusiana sp. nov. Description of the male holotype (Figs. 25, 26). Body subcylindrical, slightly wedge-shaped, moderately convex dorsally, strongly convex ventrally; length: 5.1 mm; maximum width at anterior 1 / 2 of pronotum: 1.9 mm; length to width ratio: 2.7 times longer than wide. Dorsal colouration. Head and pronotun dark green, blackish pronotal maculae extending over most of the pronotal surface, leaving only lateral sides and a central longitudinal stripe of brighter green; scutellum bluish green; elytra dark green; antennae, legs and tarsi black; ventral colouration dark green, slightly brighter on abdomen, with a dark bluish tinge on prosternum; claws brown with black tips; pubescence whitish. Head slightly narrower than anterior pronotal margin; eyes large, slightly projecting beyond outline of head; vertex flat, narrow, 0.4 times as wide as width of head; frons (Fig. 41) feebly convex, slightly depressed in middle, widest at mid height, 0.54 times as wide as width of head; inner ocular margins parallel, feebly converging on the vertex; fronto-clypeal area weakly depressed; clypeus of average length, slightly prominent, lateral margins subparallel, anterior margin weakly arched in middle; sculpture of frons and vertex shallow, foveate, consisting of a tight network of oblong foveae; cell bottom finely microsculptured with tiny setigerous puncture; clypeus roughly microsculptured; pubescence of vertex very short, prostrate, visible only at high magnification; pubescence of frons rather long, recumbent, convergent on fronto-clypeal area. Antennae (Fig. 48) of average length, as long as pronotal length in midline, subparallel; antennomeres slender basally, rather flattened, transversally enlarged; scape stout, massively club-shaped, 2.2 times longer than wide, strongly gibbous on inner side; pedicel short, pear-shaped, as long as wide; antennomere 3 narrowly triangular, as long as pedicel; antennomere 4 widely subtriangular, 1.4 times as long as wide; antennomeres 5–10 slender basally, widely subtrapezoidal, 1.2 times wider than long; last antennomere sub-rhomboidal. Pronotum weakly transverse, 1.45 times wider than long, fairly convex, wider anteriad mid length; anterior margin feebly bilobate, with central lobe narrow, just barely hinted; anterior angles obtuse; lateral margins slightly arched on anterior 3 / 4, distinctly narrowed and subparallel on posterior 1 / 4; posterior angles right; posterior margin dark, completely smooth, weakly incurved backward in middle; lateral pronotal carina weak, short, not reaching mid pronotal length; lateroposterior depressions moderately deep, transversally extended; pronotal sculpture areolate, shallow, consisting of a homogenous network of subpolygonal cells with weakly raised borders, slightly denser on lateroposterior areas; cell bottom strongly microsculptured, with distinct central grain; pronotal pubescence little evident, very short, semierect. Scutellum subpentagonal, finely microsculptured. Elytra rather vaulted, about 2 times longer than wide, slightly wedge-shaped, weakly narrowed at mid length, slightly tapered on apical 1 / 3; elytral base as wide as posterior pronotal margin, slightly oblique backwards; laterobasal angles right-angled; basal transverse depressions rather deep, wider near humeri, nearly reaching the scutellum; humeral swellings moderately developed; elytral apices sloping, separately, angularly rounded; elytral surface slightly raised posterior to the scutellum; a small shallow depression on each elytron at 1 / 3 of the length, proximal to the suture; lateral elytral groove narrow, flat, reaching the apex; lateral margin feebly serrate in apical part; epipleura wide at base, strongly narrowed and serrate posterior to humeri, subparallel in posterior 1 / 3, disappearing at apex; elytral sculpture roughly imbricate-punctulate, slightly coarser in post-scutellar area, rather plicate longitudinally; elytral pubescence extremely short, strongly erect, scarcely visible. Ventral side (Fig. 26). Anterior prosternal margin deeply arched; prosternal sculpture shallow, mostly areolate, consisting of subpolygonal cells, slightly transversally lengthened along the anterior margin; cell borders weakly raised, cell bottom confusedly microsculptured, with small central or eccentric setigerous pore, more visible on lateral sides; prosternal process (Fig. 43) wide, subparallel, with well developed and acute lateral angles; posterior apophyses long, smooth, rounded at apex; sculpture on inner area of prosternal process foveate, borders and lateral angles only finely microsculptured; sculpture of proepisternum areolate, consisting of large cells with microreticulate bottom and central pore; sculpture of mesosternum, metasternum, metaepisternum and metacoxae shallow, areolate-variolate, with less defined cells and fine basal microsculpture; posterior end of central metasternal suture shortly, moderately open, with moderately raised edges and surrounding area only microreticulate; posterior borders of metacoxae slightly raised on outer angles; protrochanters bearing an acute protruding spine (Fig. 43), meso- and metatrochanters smooth; mesoepisternum glossy, only partially sculptured, mesoepimeron with deeper, denser sculpture; sculpture of ventral abdominal surface very shallow, areolatelacunose, with fine basal microsculpture; posterior margin of ventrites smoother, only finely microreticulate; ventral pubescence moderately long. Anal ventrite (Fig. 66) subround, slightly serrate, deeply depressed along the margin of posterior 1 / 2; apex with narrow, deep notch. Legs. Foretibiae slightly incurved, with rather uneven outer margin, especially on apical part; foretarsomeres 1–4 all subequal, tarsomere 5 longer; mesotibiae straight, slightly flattened posteriorly; inner margin weakly sinuous, smooth, with very short, widely spaced, hispid bristles; apex enlarged in a strong spur protruding inward; mesotarsomere 1 slightly longer than each of 2–4, all subequal, tarsomere 5 longer than 1; metatibiae (Fig. 58) strongly flattened, slightly bent inward apically; inner margin sinuous, smooth, with a series of very short, hispid bristles, widely spaced as in mesotibiae; apex distinctly enlarged inward in a strong triangular spur; outer bristles thick, brown; metatarsomere 1 much longer than each of 2–4, all subequal, tarsomere 5 as long as 1; all tarsal claws slender, of average length, brown with black tips, feebly enlarged basally, moderately incurved; leg pubescence rather long, except on inner meso- and metatibial margins. Aedeagus. Tegmen (Fig. 78) fusiform, nearly 5 times longer than wide, slightly enlarged at mid length, less chitinous on apical and basal parts; basal 1 / 2 subcylindrical; anterior 1 / 2 of parameres slender, widely separated basally, pre-apical part subparallel, apex moderately sharp; membranaceous setigerous area short, narrow, indistinctly located along the hyaline outer apical margin; median lobe (Fig. 73) weakly chitinous, somewhat darker at apex, slightly wider basally, weakly vaulted; dorsal surface feebly, transversally striated; lateral margins smooth, straight; apex triangular, shortly and acutely pointed; basal apodemes thin, slightly sinuate, extending for 1 / 3 of total length. Variation. Small to medium size species; body convex, subparallel to slightly wedge-shaped; the size of males ranges from 4.0 mm x 1.4 mm to 5.4 mm x 2.0 mm (holotype: 5.1 mm x 1.9 mm), while the females vary from 4.1 mm x 1.5 mm to 5.7 mm x 2.1 mm (allotype: 4.1 mm x 1.5 mm). Anthaxia (H.) cadusiana sp. nov. proved to be hardly variable morphologically but quite variable chromatically; its intraspecific variability is characterized as follows: - the dorsal colouration varies from a combination of dark blackish head and pronotum with dark olive green elytra (Fig. 89), to completely bright emerald green with a bluish tinge (Fig. 90); a few coppery specimens are also known (Fig. 91) - the extension of the black pronotal spots varies from a faintly hinted shadow (Fig. 90), to a dark blackish tinge almost completely invading the pronotal surface (Fig. 89) - the anterior 1 / 2 of the pronotum can be more or less convex - the widest point of the body can be located in the anterior 1 / 2 of pronotum (Fig. 90) or at mid length of abdomen (Fig. 89) - the apical inner spur of meso- and metatibiae can be more or less developed - in some specimens the plicate aspect of the elytrae is less evident Sexual dimorphism: similarly to the other species of this group, females differ from males in having a slightly wider frons (Fig. 42) with distinctly shorter and thinner pubescence, elytra slightly less narrowed, protrochanters with spine more obtuse than in males, and the inner margin of meso- and metatibiae less incurved and without a true apical spur. Anal ventrite deeply and narrowly notched in both sexes (Figs. 66, 67). Although generally variable in colouration, this species does not show an evident sexual dichromatism. Ovipositor of the allotype illustrated (Fig. 83). Specimens studied. Holotype ♂ (Figs. 25, 26): IRAN (Zanjān prov.), Tarom-Gilvan Rd. 1660m., ESE of Sorkhe Dizaj, 36 ° 47 ’ 40 “N 48 ° 52 ’ 14 “E, 3.VI. 2012 D.Baiocchi leg. // ex larva Cotoneaster sp. V. 2013 (DBCR); allotype ♀ (Figs. 27, 28): IRAN (Zanjān prov.), Tarom-Gilvan Rd. 1660m., ESE of Sorkhe Dizaj, 36 ° 47 ’ 40 “N 48 ° 52 ’ 14 “E, 16.V. 2010 D.Baiocchi leg. // ex larva Cotoneaster sp. 22.V. 2010 (DBCR); paratypes: Zanjān prov.: IRAN (Zanjān prov.), Tarom-Gilvan Rd. 1660m., ESE of Sorkhe Dizaj, 36 ° 47 ’ 40 “N 48 ° 52 ’ 14 “E, 10.V. 2009 D.Baiocchi leg. // ex larva Cotoneaster sp. 16.V. 2009 (1 ♂ DBCR); IRAN (Zanjān prov.), Tarom-Gilvan Rd. 1660m., ESE of Sorkhe Dizaj, 36 ° 47 ’ 40 “N 48 ° 52 ’ 14 “E, 16.V. 2010 D.Baiocchi leg. // ex larva Cotoneaster sp. 22.V. 2010 (1 ♂ 1 ♀ DBCR); same data, emerged 20.IV. 2012 (3 ♂♂ DBCR); same data, emerged 3.VI. 2012 (1 ♂ DBCR); IRAN (Zanjān prov.), Tarom-Gilvan Rd. 1660m., ESE of Sorkhe Dizaj, 36 ° 47 ’ 40 “N 48 ° 52 ’ 14 “E, 29.V. – 3.VI. 2011 Baiocchi leg. (9 ♂♂ 8 ♀♀ DBCR, HMCM, MKCN, MSCL, NMPC); IRAN (Zanjān prov.), Tarom- Gilvan Rd. 1660m., ESE of Sorkhe Dizaj, 36 ° 47 ’ 40 “N 48 ° 52 ’ 14 “E, 29.V. – 3.VI. 2011 Baiocchi leg. // ex larva Cotoneaster sp. 29.IV. 2012 (1 ♂ DBCR); same data, emerged 8.V. 2012 (1 ♂ DBCR); IRAN (Zanjān prov.), Tarom- Gilvan Rd. 1660m., ESE of Sorkhe Dizaj, 36 ° 47 ’ 40 “N 48 ° 52 ’ 14 “E, 3.VI. 2012 D.Baiocchi leg. (3 ♂♂ 5 ♀♀ DBCR, MNCA, NMPC); IRAN (Zanjān prov.), Tarom-Gilvan Rd. 1660m., ESE of Sorkhe Dizaj, 36 ° 47 ’ 40 “N 48 ° 52 ’ 14 “E, 3.VI. 2012 D.Baiocchi leg. // ex larva Cotoneaster sp. V. 2013 (1 ♂ DBCR); IRAN (Zanjān prov.) 1285m., 35 km SW Mo’allem Kalāyeh, 36 ° 26 ’ 24.7 ”N 50 ° 16 ’ 35.5 ”E, 11.V. 2009 D. Baiocchi leg. // ex larva Crataegus sp. 14.V. 2009 (1 ♂ DBCR); [IRAN] Lendjan, 18.VI. [19] 69, sur blé, Djavahevi [leg.] (1 ♀ PPDRI); IRAN, Qazvin prov., 12–13.V.2006, 3 Km E Razmiyan, EMAM ZADEH MOUSA, (stream valley; at light), 36 ° 31.8 ’N 50 ° 14.3 ’E; 1080m., Jiři Hájek & Pavel Chvojka leg. // Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) schah Ab., Sv. Bílý det. 2007 (1 ♀ SBCP); IRAN (Zanjān prov.), Tarom-Gilvan Rd. 1660m., ESE of Sorkhe Dizaj, 36 ° 47 ’ 40 “N 48 ° 52 ’ 14 “E, 29.V. 2011 D.Gianasso leg. (1 ♂ DGCC); IRAN (Zanjān prov.), Tarom-Gilvan Rd. 1660m., ESE of Sorkhe Dizaj, 36 ° 47 ’ 40 “N 48 ° 52 ’ 14 “E, 31.V. 2011 D.Gianasso leg. (10 ♂♂ 3 ♀♀ DGCC); IRAN (Zanjān prov.), Tarom-Gilvan Rd. 1660m., ESE of Sorkhe Dizaj, 36 ° 47 ’ 40 “N 48 ° 52 ’ 14 “E, 31.V. 2011 D.Gianasso leg. // Ex larva Cotoneaster nummularia 27.4. 2012 (1 ♀ DGCC); same data, emerged 28.4. 2012 (1 ♂ DGCC); same data, emerged 10.5. 2012 (1 ♀ DGCC); same data, emerged 21.5. 2013 (1 ♀ DGCC); same data, emerged 9.5. 2013 (1 ♀ DGCC); IRAN (Zanjān prov.), Tarom-Gilvan Rd. 1660m., ESE of Sorkhe Dizaj, 36 ° 47 ’ 40 “N 48 ° 52 ’ 14 “E, 3.VI. 2012 D.Gianasso leg. (1 ♂ 1 ♀ DGCC); IRAN (Zanjān prov.), Tarom-Gilvan Rd. 1660m., ESE of Sorkhe Dizaj, 36 ° 47 ’ 40 “N 48 ° 52 ’ 14 “E, 3.VI. 2012 G.Magnani (1 ♂ 3 ♀♀ GMCC); IRAN (Zanjān prov.), Tarom-Gilvan Rd. 1660m., ESE of Sorkhe Dizaj, 36 ° 47 ’ 40 “N 48 ° 52 ’ 14 “E, 3.VI. 2012 G.Magnani // ex larva Cotoneaster sp. 20–26.V. 2013 (1 ♂ 1 ♀ GMCC); same data, emerged 8.VI. 2013 (2 ♂♂ 3 ♀♀ GMCC); same data, emerged 15.VI. 2014 (1 ♂ 2 ♀♀ GMCC). The holotype, allotype and some of the paratypes are deposited in the author’s collection (DBCR); rest of the paratypes in the following collections: DGCC, GMCC, HMCM, MKCN, MNCA, MSCL, NMPC, PPDRI, SBCP. Remarks. In the studied material, some bright green coloured specimens of this new species have turned out to be rather similar to Anthaxia (H.) schah, more specifically to the form with strongly reduced reddish elytral colouration. This is also attested to by the wrong identifications by Radjabi (1974) and Borumand (2002). The study of its morphology though, showed that despite the different colouration, A. (H.) cadusiana sp. nov. is somewhat closer to A. (H.) wethloi, species to which I have compared it in the present study. In addition to sharing various identical characters, I have verified the occurence in A. (H.) cadusiana sp. nov. of occasional bronze specimens almost indistinguishable from A. (H.) wethloi. On the other hand, the two species are well differentiated by the male genitalia (Figs. 77, 78) and most of all, by the presence in males of A. (H.) cadusiana sp. nov. of a deep anal notch (Fig. 66), a character missing in A. (H.) wethloi (Fig. 64). All the characters that differentiate the two species are listed in the following table. Anthaxia (H.) cadusiana sp. nov. Anthaxia (H.) wethloi Obenberger, 1940 Dorsal colouration dark blackish-green (Fig. 89) to bright Dorsal colouration dark bronze (Fig. 92) to light copper (Fig. emerald green with blue lustre (Fig. 90), rarely light bronze 94), occasionally with reddish or greenish lustre (Fig. 93) (Fig. 91) Head. Frons (Fig. 41) usually slightly wider, with inner Head. Frons (Fig. 37) usually somewhat narrower, with inner ocular margins parallel on the whole frontal part; frontal ocular margins very slightly converging to the vertex on the pubescence of males thicker, mostly whitish upper frontal part; frontal pubescence of males thinner, rather yellowish Antennae black (Fig. 48) Antennae bluish-black (Fig. 47) Pronotum more sinuately narrowed before laterobasal angles Pronotum usually more straightly narrowed before laterobasal (Figs. 89–91) angles (Figs. 92, 94) Anal ventrite notched in both sexes (Figs. 66, 67) Anal ventrite notched in females only (Figs. 64, 65) Aedeagus. Tegmen (Fig. 78) more stout, slightly fusiform, 5 Aedeagus. Tegmen (Fig. 77) slender, subparallel, more than 6 times longer than wide times longer than wide Bionomy and distribution. Nearly all known specimens of Anthaxia (H.) cadusiana sp. nov. were collected in the north Iranian province of Zanjān, in the western Elburs mountain range, along the Tarom-Gilvan road. Large rocks and variously sized bushes of Prunus sp., Crataegus sp., Cotoneaster nummularia Fisch & C. A. Mey., Astragalus sp., Ferula sp. and a number of various shorter unidentified plants, characterize the place (Fig. 98), a mild south-facing mountain slope. Part of the studied specimens were reared from thin stems of Cotoneaster nummularia (Rosaceae) sampled in this locality, together with some specimens of A. (A.) muliebris Obenberger, 1918 (first record on Cotoneaster), while a single male specimen was reared from a branch of Crataegus sp. (Rosaceae) collected on the road from Qazvin to Mo’allem Kalayeh, together with some A. (Cratomerus) diadema ssp. shelkovnikovi Obenberger, 1940 (first record on Crataegus). The only specimen of A. (H.) cadusiana sp. nov. known from some distance away is a single female from Lendjan [= Lenjan], southwest of Esfahan, considerably distant from the Elburs range, meaning that the species is certainly more widespread than at present known. Adults of this species show a timid and elusive behaviour. In fact, unlike the other species present in the same place, they were only rarely spotted in the open meadow, and seemed to prefer small yellow flowers of Asteraceae growing in sheltered areas in proximity of bushes of its hostplant, where they were very fast to fly and hide if not cautiosly approached. Etymology. Anthaxia (H.) cadusiana sp. nov. is named after the Cadusian people, an ancient warlike tribe who lived in the western part of the Elburs range, in the mid first millennium BC.Published as part of Baiocchi, Daniele, 2015, A revision of the Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) schah Abeille de Perrin, 1904 species-group, with description of two new species from Iran (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Anthaxiini), pp. 57-91 in Zootaxa 3918 (1) on pages 71-74, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3918.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/28784
ECOPERFORMANCE: Uma Política do Corpo
Full text linkInterview with Maura Baiocchi, the founding director of Taanteatro Companhia and the International Ecoperformance Film Festival. In the interview, Baiocchi talks about the artistic journey that led her to the creation of the concept of ecopeformance and the production of a festival dedicated to this theme. In this context, she addresses the overcoming of anthropocentrism in the performing arts, referring to the transition of AntropoScene and SimbioScene, two other concepts coined by this Brazilian choreographer.Entrevista com Maura Baiocchi, diretora fundadora da Taanteatro Companhia e do Festival Internacional de Cinema Ecoperformance. Na entrevista, Baiocchi fala sobre o percurso artístico que a levou à criação do conceito de ecopeformance e à produção de um festival dedicado a esta temática. Nesse contexto, ela aborda a superação do antropocentrismo nas artes cênicas, referindo-se à transição de AntropoCena e SimbioCena, outros dois conceitos cunhados por esta coreógrafa brasileira
FIGURES 5–8. Fig. 5 in Three new species of Anthaxia Eschscholtz, 1829 from Iran (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
No full textFIGURES 5–8. Fig. 5, Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) mannaea n. sp., holotype 3, dorsal aspect, 3.4 mm; Fig. 6, Anthaxia (Haplanthaxia) parvula Baiocchi & Magnani, 2006, holotype 3, dorsal aspect, 2.8 mm; Fig. 7, A. (H.) mannaea n. sp., allotype Ƥ, dorsal aspect, 2.8 mm; Fig. 8, the same, paratype 3, ventral aspect, 2.9 mm.Published as part of Baiocchi, Daniele, 2011, Three new species of Anthaxia Eschscholtz, 1829 from Iran (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), pp. 1-23 in Zootaxa 2932 on page 9, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.27805
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