March 2022
New taxa and nomenclatural acts
in the Afrotropical and Palaearctic Acmaeoderini
(Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Polycestinae)
by
STANISLAV PREPSL *
* Lípová 622, CZ-66484 Zastávka near Brno, CZECH REPUBLIC. E-mail: prepsl.stanislav@gmail.com
Abstract - Twelve new species, one new subspecies of Acmaeodera Eschscholtz, 1829, and two new species of Xantheremia Volkovitsh, 1979 - Acmaeodera (Acmaeodera) trojani sp. nov. (Republic of South Africa), A. (Acmaeotethya) brechteli sp. nov. (Egypt: Sinai), A. (A.) clanwilliamensis sp. nov. (Republic of South Africa), A. (A.) iringae sp. nov. (Tanzania), A. (A.) nera sp. nov. (Republic of South Africa), A. (A.) oudtshoornensis sp. nov. (Republic of South Africa), A. (A.) puchneri sp. nov. (Republic of South Africa), A. (A.) tanzaniae sp. nov. (Tanzania), A. (Rugacmaeodera) moyalensis sp. nov. (Kenya, Ethiopia), A. (Paracmaeodera) cornuta sp. nov. (Ethiopia, Kenya), A. (P.) posticalis majori ssp. nov. (Namibia), A. (P.) sedlaceki sp. nov. (Central African Republic), A. (Ptychomus) jendeki sp. nov. (Kenya), Xantheremia (Paratethya) kabateki sp. nov. (Ethiopia, Somalia), X. (P.) rejzeki sp. nov. (Jordan) - are described and illustrated. For several taxa of Acmaeodera are made nomenclatural acts and changes: Acmaeodera (Acmaeotethya) grata Fahråeus, 1851 = A. (A.) apicerubra Marseul, 1867, confirmed synonymy; A. (A.) pastoralis Gestro, 1881, bona species; A. (A.) wahlbergii Fahråeus, 1851, bona species = A. (A.) grata kudrnai Krajčík, 2015, new synonymy = A. (A.) semimarmorata Marseul, 1867, confirmed synonymy = A. (A.) semimarmorea Thomson, 1878, confirmed synonymy; A. (Paracmaeodera) saundersii Waterhouse, 1904, bona species; A. (Ptychomus) descarpentriesi Holm, 1978, bona species; A. (P.) surcoufi Théry, 1931, bona species; A. (P.) surcoufi woodi Obenberger, 1928, status novum. The Xantheremia (Paratethya) convoluta (Klug, 1829) species group is established within the subgenus Paratethya Bílý, 1983; composition and diagnostic characters of all species of Paratethya are discussed.
