Anthaxia (Melanthaxia) prasina Horn, 1882 species-group (Figs. 3, 13, 17, 25) Diagnosis. Medium-sized (3.6–6.1 mm), convex, stout, matt species with silky lustre; dorsal surface bronze, blue, blue-green, rarely dark bronze; frons convex, rarely flat, always with dark, erect pubescence; vertex about twice as wide as width of eye; pronotal sculpture nearly homogenous, consisting of polygonal cells without or with poorly developed central grains; elytra 1.6–1.8 times as long as wide; elytral sculpture consisting of sparse, simple punctures; elytral pubescence well-developed or elytra mostly asetose except for very short, indistinct pubescence at apical third; male meso- and metatrochanters unarmed or with very small spine (Fig. 13); male meso- and metatibiae with fine, inner preapical serration; posterior third of lateral elytral margins and lateral margins of anal ventrite very finely serrate; aedeagus moderately long, parameres usually weakly widened at basal half or nearly subparallel (Fig. 3). Species included. Anthaxia (M.) aenescens Casey, 1884, A. (M.) prasina Horn, 1882, A. (M.) subprasina Cobos, 1958.

Published as part of Bílý, Svatopluk & Kubáň, Vítězslav, 2010, A study on the Nearctic species of the genus Anthaxia (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Buprestinae: Anthaxiini). Subgenus Melanthaxia. Part I, pp. 535-546 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 50 (2) on page 539, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5326225