Agrilus Curtis (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) of the Baja California peninsula, México
Author
Hespenheide, Henry A.
Author
Westcott, Richard L.
Author
Bellamy, Charles L.
text
Zootaxa
2011
2805
36
56
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.277078
0f7d868c-14a8-43b4-aca7-5b54c6915b0d
1175-5326
277078
Agrilus illectus
Fall 1901
(Figs. 69–70)
BCN,
5 mi
W Mike’s Sky Ranch,
22-VI-88
, Baumann, Kirschner, Kondratieff, Wells, Whiting (BYU); Rio San José at Meling Ranch,
22-VII-88
, Baumann, Kirschner, Kondratieff, Wells, Whiting (BYU);
9.2 mi
N Colonet,
31- V-74
, R.L. Westcott (RLWE);
11 mi
E Ojos Negros,
21-VII-80
, Brown & Faulkner (SDMC);
9 km
SE
Santo Tomás
,
24-VI-80
, on
Lotus scoparius
(Nutt.) Ottley (Fabaceae)
, Bellamy & Westcott (CLBC, RLWE); [Sa.
San Pedro
Mártir]
47–50 km
E San Telmo,
950 m
,
29-VI-80
, Bellamy & Westcott (CLBC, RLWE);
5 mi
SW Desengaño,
6-VI-66
, D.S. Verity,
Lotus scoparius
(DSVC). It has also been collected on a prostrate species of
Lotus
. This species has been known only from Arizona, California, Nevada and Oregon, where it has been taken on a variety of unrelated plants. No larval host has been recorded, though surely includes species of
Lotus
.
Agrilus inhabilis inhabilis
Kerremans 1900
(Figs. 25–26)
This species was treated by
Horn (1894:378)
under its synonym
Agrilus ineptus
Horn 1891
. The group to which this species belongs was revised by
Nelson and Westcott (1991)
, at which time it was treated as polytypic, with three subspecies. The nominate subspecies is known only from south of La Paz in the Cape Region of BCS, with the exception of a specimen from
Isla
Santa Margarita and an anomalous pair from far to the north, near Cataviña, BCN, that was discussed in detail by
Nelson and Westcott (1991)
. The other two subspecies are known only from California. Dates of collection range from August to October, mostly the latter, with the exception of the
Isla
Santa Margarita specimen, which was collected in early July. The only biological data known is based on “taken sweeping grass and forbs along roadsides and clearing by Dozier and Westcott, and one was seen on
Hymenoclea monogyra
Torr. & A. Gray
[
Asteraceae
] near La Burrera” (
Nelson and Westcott, 1991
).