Anthaxia ( Merocratus ) miranda Deyrolle, 1864

Anthaxia ( Merocratus) miranda Deyrolle, 1864 View in CoL

( Figs. 2, 3 View FIGURES 1–9 , 11 View FIGURES 10–15 )

Anthaxia miranda Deyrolle, 1864: 74 View in CoL .

Type locality: Singapore .

Anthaxia miranda: Gemminger & Harold, 1869: 1389 View in CoL (catalogue); Saunders, 1871: 56 (catalogue); Kerremans, 1892: 124 (catalogue); 1903: 176 (taxonomy); Obenberger, 1917: 176 (monograph); 1930: 547 (catalogue).

Anthaxia ( Merocratus) miranda: Bílý, 1989: 385 View in CoL (taxonomy); 1997: 29, 93 (catalogue); 1998: 154 (revision); Bellamy, 2003: 135 (taxonomy); 2008: 1429 (catalogue).

Described for the single female from Singapore. More females were collected recently in West Malaysia: Johor, 15 km NW Kota Tinggi, Muntahak Mt, 1°49‘N 103°48‘E, 200 m, 13.–14.v.2001, M. Říha leg. ( 9 females). Finally both sexes were collected in Indonesia: SW Kalimantan, Singkawang region, Mt. Bawang, Madi village, 1000–1500 m, i.2018, local collector ( 6 males, 3 females - some in copula).

Surprisingly strong sexual dimorphism was found: the male is much smaller ( 4.8–5.5 mm), frons dark golden green, vertex black, pronotum black with bright orange posterior angles and short, green, prescutellar line; elytra black-violet, with short, elongate, golden, scutellar triangle and weakly visible, green, lateral, semicircular line ( Fig. 2 View FIGURES 1–9 ); aedeagus ( Fig. 11 View FIGURES 10–15 ) rather short, angulately spindle-shaped, parameres with small, preapical spine. The female is much larger and stouter (7.0– 7.9 mm), frons green, pronotum green or blue-green with two, more or less triangular, black spots, elytra violet or dark violet, with green base and prolonged scutellar strip and with easily seen, green, lateral, semicircular lines ( Fig. 3 View FIGURES 1–9 ). Ventral surface of the male bronze-violet, with golden green metepimera, lateral parts of metacoxae and femora; ventral surface of the female entirely golden green, abdominal ventrites with weak bronze lustre.

Distribution. Indonesia ( Kalimantan) (new country record), Malaysia ( Johor) (new country record), Singapore.