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Another Agrilinae from Zambia. I think this one is an Agrilini and not a Coraebini. Size : 6,5mm

Coraebinae too. The Agrilinae has 2 lateral carinas on the pronotum (marginal and submarginal carina) and more or less a small prehumeral carinae at the posterior angles of the pronotum.

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Adrian

Meliboeus (Meliboeus) sp. - Buprestidae Agrilinae Coraebini Meliboeina

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Maurizio Gigli
http://utenti.romascuola.net/bups
http://bup.xoom.it/

Thanks for your very fast answers, but with a hundred species in Africa, impossible to go further.

This is right.

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Adrian

This is a list of most of species of Meliboeus that could live in Zambia. Only for one of them there is a citation for Zambia: Meliboeus holubi.

aeneus +
albopilosus +
bicoloratus
bisetus
burgeoni
callosicollis
cardinalis
centaureae
congolanus
conradsi
crassulus
cuprinus
doddsi
dorsalis
fasciatus
gerardi
haefligeri
hancocksi
holubi *
hottentottus
karayi
komareki
lesnei
malaisei
massaicus
massarti
mulanganus
neavei
nodosus
notatus +
plexus
prasinus
raphelisi
ruandensis
setulosus
skulinai
sutor
tomenticollis
tomentiventris
toroensis
viridanus
wittei

Most of them are without white hairy spots. Species similar to this one are not too many. Unluckily, I have never seen most of them, and also my bibliography on African Meliboeus is quite poor.
At this moment, I can say that species marked with + are surely with hairy white spots, with about the same look of yours, but I don't know how many others are similar to those species.

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Maurizio Gigli
http://utenti.romascuola.net/bups
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