Revision of the Agrilus muscarius species-group (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) with description of thirteen new species from Palaearctic and Oriental regions Author Jendek, Eduard Author Grebennikov, Vasily V. text Zootaxa 2009 2168 1 33 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.275076 fd83e747-1e63-4eb0-bef6-863aaa645393 1175-5326 275076 Agrilus ventripotens Kerremans Figs. 24 , 50 ventripotens Kerremans, 1900a : 342 [replacement name for ventralis Kerremans, 1893 not Horn, 1891 ] Kerremans, 1903 : 279 [cited as ventripoteus ]. Obenberger, 1936 : 1107 . = ventralis Kerremans, 1893 [preoccupied by ventralis Horn, 1891 ] Kerremans, 1900a : 342 [synonym of ventripotens ]. Kerremans, 1903 : 279 [synonym of ventripotens ]. Obenberger, 1936 : 1107 [synonym of ventripotens ]. Diagnosis . This species is very distinctive by the unichromatic, black with violet tinged elytral color combined with a unichromatic whitish mosaic pubescence. Sides of pronotum arcuate, apical margin somewhat narrower than basal margin; anterior pronotal lobe wide but not extending beyond anterior angles; disk conspicuously convex; prehumerus costate, feebly arcuate, extending to about half the pronotal length, with apex distant from margin (lateral view); prosternal lobe distinctly incised ( Fig. 50 ); prosternal process expanded in straight line ( Fig. 50 ), disk flat; apex of last abdominal ventrite markedly emarginate. Length . 3.9–4.0 mm. Type series . Agrilus ventralis Kerremans, 1893 . Holotype by monotypy: sex not examined, BMNH : “ Type H. T. [p] [round label with red border] \ Kanara Andrewes [h] \ ventralis Type [h] \ A. ventralis Kerrem. Inde [h] \ Kerremans. 1903 –59 [p]”. Type locality . Kanara. Specimens examined . INDIA : Karnataka : 1 Ƥ ( EJCB ): “Fraserpet [= Kushalnagar], Coorg., F.R.I. Sandal Insect Survey, 15.III. [19]30”. SRI LANKA : 1 Ƥ ( EJCB ): “ Sri Lanka : Anu. Dist., Padaviya Antiquities site, 20–23 July 1978 ”. Distribution . south India : Karnataka; Sri Lanka .