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<mods:titleid="AB4B0DE5EDA41ABBD7B864DCE0760DD0">Agra, arboreal beetles of Neotropical forests: pusilla group and piranha group systematics and notes on their ways of life (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiini, Agrina)</mods:title>
<taxonomicNameid="307930D085ED6684609B2B41005CC443"ID-CoL="B2JL"LSID="31FE631E-24D6-07EA-5C94-870BF77D6620"authority="Erwin"authorityName="Erwin"authorityYear="2010"class="Insecta"family="Carabidae"genus="Agra"higherTaxonomySource="CoL"kingdom="Animalia"lsidName="Agra ce"order="Coleoptera"pageId="14"pageNumber="15"phylum="Arthropoda"rank="species"species="ce"status="sp. n.">Agra ce Erwin</taxonomicName>
<figureCitationid="116237DC32F8937B78F1AEB692BEE967"captionStart="Figure 11"captionStartId="F7"captionText="Figure 11. Distribution map of the species of the piranha group."httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/14830"pageId="14"pageNumber="15">Fig. 11</figureCitation>
Madre de Dios, 30 air km SW Puerto Maldonado, 205m, "12.8368°S, 69.2933°W," 10 September 1984 (T.L. Erwin, et al.)(NMNH: ADP 093837, female).
, spells "grace," for the Peruvian Ornithologist, Grace Servat, who has shared the lowland Amazon and the high Andes with me for many years, including the known localities of this species.
<paragraphid="2C83C1DAD3A31B6C679E6BE9868F385F"pageId="14"pageNumber="15">With the attributes of the genus and species-group as described above and elytra and prothorax metallic blue, legs unicolored, frons laterad slightly rugose, prothorax markedly setiferous both laterally and ventrally, and elytra barely constricted at apical third, side margin slightly arcuate.</paragraph>
Head black with bluish reflection posteriorly, body and legs metallic blue; antennae and mouthparts piceous, scape with slight metallic blue reflections.
Labrum moderately elongate and rounded apically. Frons medially raised and smooth, laterally depressed and rugose. Gena almost squared to constricted neck in females. Genae and occiput moderately densely punctate, each puncture setiferous.
Slightly broader medially, flared basally; surface with dense and coarse setiferous punctures; lateral elongate callous with single row of setiferous punctures along middle.
<paragraphid="00ACE1161CEDBF3BF46E0B702AD8BCAB"pageId="15"pageNumber="16">These beetles are macropterous and are capable of flight; they are swift and agile runners.</paragraph>
species are found in the canopy of rainforest trees; larvae of this genus are found under the bark of the these trees, however they must also roam on the surface, as they have been collected by insecticidal fogging techniques in the very early morning before first light. Members of
occur at lowland altitudes in the Amazon Basin. Adults are active in September, the late dry season. The holotype was collected in an Erwin Plot at the type locality; the forest of this plot is designated as a Swamp Forest with internal drainage (
<bibRefCitationid="4EE8364C7A081D589F426075B96D0569"author="Erwin, TL"journalOrPublisher="Revista Peruana de Entomologia"pageId="22"pageNumber="23"pagination="1 - 8"refId="B10"refString="Erwin, TL, 1985. Tambopata Reserved Zone, Madre de Dios, Peru: History and description of the reserve. Revista Peruana de Entomologia 27: 1 - 8"title="Tambopata Reserved Zone, Madre de Dios, Peru: History and description of the reserve."volume="27"year="1985">Erwin 1985</bibRefCitation>
: Madre de Dios, Pakitza, Trocha Uno /14, 324m, "11.9352°S, 71.3039°W," 8 September 1989 (R.A. Faitoute, et al.)(NMNH: BIOLAT 017465, female paratype).
<figureCitationid="7865CAF32D28BE442BDC080CAD5AE9E7"captionStart="Figure 11"captionStartId="F7"captionText="Figure 11. Distribution map of the species of the piranha group."httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/14830"pageId="15"pageNumber="16">Fig. 11</figureCitation>
