A new species and a new subspecies of Sphenoptera (subgenus Chrysoblemma) from Central Asia and Pakistan with taxonomic notes on S. (C.) scovitzi Faldermann and S. (C.) tamarisci Gory & Laporte and synonymy of two other species of Sphenoptera (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
M.G. Volkovitsh & M.Yu. Kalashian
Abstract. Sphenoptera (Chrysoblemma) kerzhner sp. n. from Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and S. (C.) eddin pakistana ssp. n. from Pakistan are described and compared with closely related species. S. (C.) scovitzi Faldermann, 1835 is regarded to comprise four subspecies: S. s. scovitzi Fald. (= angelica Obenberger, 1915, combinatrix Obenberger, 1920, vachshenica Stepanov, 1959, synn. n., scowitzi var. coelestis Obenberger, 1927, scowitzi var. tedshenigena Obenberger, 1937), S. s. alfierii Obenberger, 1923, S.s. noeli Obenberger, 1924, stat. n., and S. s. splendens Gory & Laporte, 1839, stat. n. S. (C.) tamarisci Gory & Laporte, 1839 is comprised of two subspecies: S. t. tamarisci Gory & Lap. (= smaragdina Jakovlev, 1901, sterbai Obenberger, 1927, synn. n., sterbai var. lura Obenberger, 1937) and S. t. beckeri Dohrn, 1866, stat. n. (= tamaricis ssp. scutellata, var. bifossa, abb. cyanipennis, viridirubra Obenberger, 1920, synn. n., beckeri var. chrysorrhoea Obenberger, 1927, and ab. elisabethae Obenberger, 1937). Lectotypes are designated for S. eddin Jakovlev, 1903, S. scovitzi Fald., S. latescutata Fairmaire, 1892, S. angelica Obenb., S. combinatrix Obenb., S. noeli Obenb., S. tamarisci Gory & Lap., S. sterbai Obenb., S. tekkensis Obenb., 1948, and S. potopolskii Stepanov, 1959. The following synonymy is established: S. (s. str.) glabrata Ménétriés, 1832 (= maura Jakovlev, 1901, syn. n.), S. (Deudora) rauca (Fabricius, 1787) (= rauca var. africana Jakovlev, 1900); both Jakovlev’s names were based on mislabelled specimens.
Zoosystematica Rossica, 2000, 9(1): 195–202 ▪ Published in print 16 April 2001
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