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 walsinghami
Crotch 1873
(Figs. 20–22)
BCN,
5 mi
N
San Pedro
M. [undoubtedly this is Misión
San Pedro
Mártir, ±
30°45’N
,
115°16’W
,
1630 m
], 17 &
27-VIII-58
, E.L. Sleeper (CAS, CLBC);
3.3 mi
S El Condor,
1-IX-81
, D.K. Faulkner (SDMC). This sexually dimorphic species has been recorded from British
Columbia
to California, east to Idaho, Colorado and New
Mexico
. Although it has not been reared, it is almost exclusively taken on
Ericameria nauseosa
(Pallas ex Pursh) G.L. Nesom & Baird
(formerly
Chrysothamnus
,
Asteraceae
), which is presumed to be its larval host.
The following taxa are not currently known from Baja California, but may reasonably be expected to occur there: