Bilyaxia bucki (Cobos, 1956)

Anthaxia (Cylindrophora) bucki Cobos, 1956: 162 –164. Anthaxia (Cylindrophora) kafkai Bílý, 1996, syn. n.

Having studied the holotype of Anthaxia bucki (MNCN) and comparing it with the holotype of A. kafkai (NMPC), I find them to be conspecific and consider A. kafkai a new junior subjective synonym of A. bucki . Unfortunately Cobos (1956) in his description published an illustration of A. bucki (Fig. 78) which strongly differs from the holotype (illustrated specimen possesses posteriorly strongly enlarged elytra and nearly convex pronotum); having relied on the illustration, I described this species once more.

Distribution: Brazil, Argentina.