Anthaxia ( Haplanthaxia ) boettcheri Obenberger, 1928

Anthaxia ( Haplanthaxia) boettcheri Obenberger, 1928 View in CoL

( Figs. 2, 4, 5 View Figs , 13 View Figs )

Anthaxia Boettcheri Obenberger, 1928: 236 View in CoL . Type locality: Philippines, northern Luzon island, Kalinga province, Cordillera Central mts., Balbalasang – Balbalan National Park, Balbalasang, 17º29′N 121º03′E, ~ 950 m a.s.l.

Anthaxia Boettcheri: OBENBERGER (1930) View in CoL : 546 (catalogue).

Anthaxia ( Haplanthaxia) boettcheri: BÍLÝ (1997) View in CoL : 16, 53 (catalogue); BELLAMY (2008): 1358 (catalogue).

Type specimens studied. LECTOTYPE: ♂ ( NMPC), designated here ( Fig. 2 View Figs ): PHILIPPINES: LUZON: “Philippinen / Luzon [p] / Balbalasan [= Balbalasang , 17º29′N 121º03′E, Cordillera Central mts. , ~ 950 m, Balbalasang – Balbalan National Park , Kalinga province, N Luzon] [h] [revers side:] S. Boettcher [leg.] / III.1918 [h] // Typus [p, red label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. 22532 [p+h, orange label] // Anthaxia / Boettcheri m. / Type / Det Dr. Obenberger [h+p]” GoogleMaps . PARALECTOTYPE: ♀ ( SMTD), designated here: PHILIPPINES: LUZON: “ Philippinen / Luzon [p] / Balbalasan [= Balbalasang, see above] [h] [revers side:] S. Boettcher [leg.] / III.1918 [h] // Typus [p, red label] // 1924 [p, yellow] // Staatl. Museum für / Tierkunde Dresden [p] // Anthaxia / Boettcheri / m.n.sp. Type / Det Dr. Obenberger [h+p]”.

Additional specimens studied. PHILIPPINES: LUZON: N Luzon: Abra province, Cordillera Central mts., SE of the Licuan, Mt. Pultoc , 900 m, 17º34′N 120º55′E, 29.iii.2000, L. Dembický leg. (6 ♂♂, 5 ♀♀, NMPC) ( Figs. 4, 5 View Figs ). GoogleMaps Kalinga province, Cordillera Central mts. , Balbalasang – Balbalan National Park , Balbalasang, 17º29′N 121º03′E, ~ 950 m, iii.1918, S. Boettcher leg. (2 ♂♂ 2 ♀♀, SMTD; 4 ♂♂ 2 ♀♀, NMPC). GoogleMaps CW Luzon: Pangasian province , Labrador [ 16º02′N 120º08′E], 50 m, 16.iii.1947, M. Alviar [leg.] ( 1 ♀, NMPC). GoogleMaps C Luzon: Metro Manila region, Montalban [ 14º43′N 121º06′E], W. Schultze leg. ( 1 ♀, SMTD). GoogleMaps MINDORO: [without exact data] 12.vii.1993, local collector leg. (1 ♂, NMPC). NW Mindoro: Abra de Ilog [ 13º26′N 120º44′E], W. Schultze leg. (1 ♂, SMTD) GoogleMaps ; Mt. Calavite [ 13º29′N 120º23′E], W. Schultze leg. ( 1 ♂, NHMB). GoogleMaps PALAWAN: “ Santo Lucea ” [ Santa Lucia dist., Puerto Princesa province, ca. 9º42′N 118º41′E], 12.iv.1989, T. Niisato leg. ( 1 ♂, NMPC); GoogleMaps SIBUYAN: [without exact data] C. F. Barker leg. ( 1 ♀, NHMB).

Diagnosis. Small, navicular species with rather strong sexual dimorphsm ( Figs. 4, 5 View Figs ): male slender, nearly triangular, bronze, frons, antennae, anterior tibiae, pro- and mesofemora golden green or blue-green; mesotibiae with very fine, inner, preapical serration, anal ventrite truncate; female much robuster, completely bronze with simple mesotibiae and rounded, medially notched anal ventrite; aedeagus ( Fig. 13 View Figs ) slightly spindle-shaped, nearly subcylindrical, dorsal surface and lateral margins of parameres with fine denticulation at posterior half.

Differential diagnosis. See key and the diagnosis of Anthaxia ( Haplanthaxia) attenuata .

Remarks. The denticulation of dorsal surface and lateral margins of parameres in Anthaxia ( H.) boettcheri and A. ( H.) attenuata is quite a unique phenomenon which has not been observed in the genus Anthaxia , yet. The male specimen from Palawan possesses parameres without distinct denticulation but other characters incl. the shape of aedeagus correspond well with A. ( H.) boettcheri .

To avoid any confusion in the future, and for the sake of the stability, considering the fact that the number of syntypes of A. ( H.) boettcheri is unknown, we hereby designate the wellpreserved male syntype from NMPC as the lectotype ( Fig. 2 View Figs ) and the female syntype from SMTD as the paralectotype.

Distribution. Philippines (Luzon, Mindoro, Palawan, Sibuyan). New for Mindoro, Palawan and Sibuyan.