A Checklist of the Buprestidae (Coleoptera) of
Madagascar and adjacent oceanic islands
Subtribe ACTENODINA Kerremans, 1890
Actenodites Kerremans 1890:cxxxv; 1903:193; Obenberger
1934a:658.
Actenodina Kerremans 1893a:111; Obenberger 1934a:658;
Bellamy 1985:422; Hołyński 1993a:14, 31.
Genus ACTENODES Dejean, 1833
Actenodes Dejean 1833:80; Théry 1905:109
(rev. Madagascar spp.); Descarpentries 1950:18 (Madagascar spp. key).
Type species: Buprestis nobilis
Linné (by monotypy).
acuminipennis (Gory) 1841:184 (Chrysobothris).
Distribution: Madagascar:
Nord, Montagne d’Ambre; Centre, Forêt d’Antsianaka; Est, Vohémar;
Forêts au Nord de Fort-Dauphin
Type: MNHN
aeneus (Gory) 1841:185 (Chrysobothris).
Distribution: Madagascar:
Est, Andranofotsy, aux environs de Maroantsetra; massif de l’Antongonivitsika;
baie d’Antongil; Fénérive Zaïre
Type: MNHN
albifrons Théry 1905:111.
Distribution: Madagascar:
Est, district de Maroantsetra, baie d’Antongil
Type: MNHN
alluaudi Kerremans 1894:347.
Distribution: Madagascar:
Nord, Diégo-Suarez; Montagnes des Français
Type: BMNH
spp. chloroderus Alluaud 1900a:18;
1900b:193 (viridicollis sic!)
Distribution: Madagascar:
Bekodia
Type: MNHN
syn. chloroderus Théry 1905:110
(var. alluaudi, nom. praeocc. Alluaud 1900).
Type: MNHN
ssp. vadoni Descarpentries 1950:22.
Distribution: Madagascar:
Sud, nord du Pays Androy; Port Faux Cap; Behara
Type: MNHN
unvn. androyensis Descarpentries 1950:fig. 8e (nom.
nud.)
bourgini Descarpentries 1950:26; figs. 9a, b.
Distribution: Madagascar:
Ouest sud, Bekily
Type: MNHN
circumdatus (Gory) 1841:183 (Chrysobothris).
Distribution: Madagascar:
Est, baie d’Antongil; Antakotako; environ de Fénérive et de
Tamatave; Centre, Antsianka
Type: MNHN
curvipes (Gory) 1841:179 (Chrysobothris).
Distribution: Madagascar:
Centre, Antsihanaka; Beloha
Type: MNHN
frater Théry 1905:112, 179.
Distribution: Madagascar:
Sud, Behara, vallée de la rivière Mananhara, Bas Mandraré
dans l’Androy
Type: MNHN
griveaudi Descarpentries 1958:93.
Distribution: Madagascar:
Ouest, forêt Antsingy
Type: MNHN
lemoulti Théry 1912:117.
Distribution: Madagascar:
Vohémar
Type: MNHN
milloti Descarpentries 1950:37.
Distribution: Madagascar:
Ouest sud, Bekily
Type: MNHN
miribellus Hoschek 1927:231.
Distribution: Madagascar:
Ouest Sud, Befandriana-Sud; Bekily
Type: ISNB
ornaticollis Kerremans 1893b:243.
Distribution: Madagascar:
Est, baie d’Antongil; Antakotako; Fénérive; Centre, Antsianaka;
Beloha, au nord de Antananarivo
Type: MRAC
syn. suavis Brancsik 1898:119.
pauliani Descarpentries 1958:91; figs. 1a-e.
Distribution: Madagascar:
Ouest, forêt Antsingy
Type: MNHN
peyrierasi Descarpentries 1966:200.
Distribution: Madagascar:
Fampanambo, distict de Maroantsetra
Type: MNHN
pyropygus Fairmaire 1903b:200.
Distribution: Madagascar
Type: MNHN
uniformis Théry 1905:112.
Distribution: Madagascar:
Sud, Ambovombé, dans la partie orientale de l'Androy
Type: MNHN
viettei Descarpentries 1955:71.
Distribution: Madagascar
Type: MNHN
viossati Descarpentries 1974:581.
Distribution: Madagascar:
Est, route de Moramanga à Anosibe
Type: MNHN
Genus BELIONOTA Eschscholtz, 1829
Belionota Eschscholtz 1829:9.
Type species: Belionota sagittaria
Eschscholtz (original designation).
championi Murray 1862:451.
Distribution: Madagascar:
Est, baie d’Antongil; Région de Soanierana; environs de Tamatave;
Ouest, Ankorika près Port-Bergé; Maevatanana;
Antsianaka and in Africa: Angola Congo Guinea Moçambique South Africa
Transvaal Zaïre
Type: BMNH
syn. canaliculata (Fabricius)
1787:181 (Buprestis).
Type: Fabricius catalogue 2545 BMNH
syn. canaliculata Kerremans
1898a:303; Théry 1929a:139; Bellamy 1991b:344.
ssp. punctata Silbermann, in
Chevrolat 1838:108.
Distribution: Zaïre
Type: type?
syn. madagascariensis Théry
1898b:58 (var. canaliculata).
Type: MNHN
unvn. madagascariensis Lesne
(var. canaliculata); Bellamy 1991b:344.
unvn. aurata Théry (var.
canaliculata); Burgeon 1941:208.
Type: MNHN
prasina (Thunberg) 1789a:90 (Buprestis).
Distribution: îles
Mascareignes: Ile Maurice, Mon-Désert; Ile Réunion, Saint-Denis;
Seychelle Is. and widely in tropical Asia and Australasia
Type: UZIU