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Issue: Vol. 2721 No. 1: 14 Dec. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-12-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2721.1.2
Page range: 15–27
Abstract views: 51
PDF downloaded: 4

Supplement to the revision of the genus Brachelytrium Obenberger, 1923 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Buprestinae: Anthaxiini)

Czech University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Department of Forest Protection and Game Management, Kamýcká 1176, Praha 6 – Suchdol, CZ-165 21, Czech Republic
Plant Pest Diagnostic Center, California Department of Food & Agriculture, 3294 Meadowview Road, Sacramento, CA 95832-1448, U. S. A.
Coleoptera taxonomy Buprestidae Brachelytrium new species key checklist Afrotropical region

Abstract

Eight new species of the essentially Afrotropical anthaxiine buprestid genus Brachelytrium Obenberger, 1923 are described: Brachelytrium (Brachelytrium) aeneum sp. nov. from South Africa, B. (B.) beninense sp. nov. from Benin, B. (B.) mauritanicum sp. nov. from Mauritania, B. (B.) niehuisi sp. nov. from Namibia, B. (B.) nigrum sp. nov. and B. (B.) purpureiventre sp. nov. from Kenya, B. (Elytrobrachium) caeruleum sp. nov. from Zambia and B. (E.) metallicum sp. nov. from Kenya, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Brachelytrium jemeni Brechtel, 2000 is transferred to the subgenus Elytrobrachium. All new species are illustrated and compared with the most similar species, distinguished in a key to subgenera and species. A complete checklist for the genus is given including all 25 species and two subgenera.

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