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Issue: Vol. 771 No. 1: 14 Dec. 2004
Type: Articles
Published: 2004-12-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.771.1.1
Page range: 1–8
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Two new species of Anthaxia Eschscholtz, 1829 from the A. salicis (Fabricius, 1776) species-group (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)

Department of Entomology, National Museum, Kunratice 1, 148 00 Praha 4, Czech Republic
Department of Entomology, Moravian Museum, Hviezdoslavova 29a, 627 00 Brno, Czech Republic
Coleoptera Taxonomy Buprestidae Anthaxiini Palaearctic Anthaxia 2 new species

Abstract

Two new species of Anthaxia from the A. (Anthaxia) salicis (Fabricius, 1776) species-group are described and illustrated: A. anadyomene n. sp. (Cyprus) and A. syriaca n. sp. (Israel, Syria, Turkey). Differential diagnoses of both new species are given and the A. salicis species-group is redefined.

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