The Beetle Family Carabidae of Costa Rica: Twentynine new species of Agra Fabricius 1801 (Coleoptera: Carabidae, Lebiini, Agrina)
Author
Erwin, Terry L.
text
Zootaxa
2002
119
1
68
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.162803
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Agra notcatie
Erwin
,
new species
(
Figs. 22a, 22
b, 22c, 22d)
Holotype
.
Male.
COSTA RICA
: Limón, Tortuguero National Park, Estacíon Cuatro Esquinas, sea level,
10°34'N
83°32'W
, November, (R. Delgado)(
INBio
:
CRI
000298655).
Diagnosis.
Femur concolorous. Elytron with sutural and lateral apices prolonged, spinose. Male middle
not
excavate nor densely setose in apical half; posterior tibia with apical excavation and dense brush. Elytral apex shallowly arcuate between lateral and apical apices. Abdominal sterna IIIV with 2 bilateral patches of sparse setae.
Description.
Color and luster: Somber colored beetles with pale antennae, slightly infuscated femora which contrast with the pale testaceous tibiae and tarsi.
Form: Head (
Fig. 22a
) behind eyes moderately elongate, rounded in both sexes. Male middle and posterior tibiae neither excavate nor densely setose in apical half. Elytron with apex (
Fig. 22
b) shallowly arcuate between lateral and apical apices; interneurs a series of large deep foveae. Male with sparse and scattered setae on metasternum and sparse patches of setae on abdominal sterna II, III, V and VI, only IV with two small bilateral tufts. Sternum VI (Fig, 22c) moderately Vnotched, female shallowly Vnotched. Aedeagus (
Fig. 22
d) with ostium moderately short, apex simple, cordiform, parameres glabrous. Size: medium,
16.3 to 18.1mm
in length,
3.6 to 4.2mm
in width.
Other specimens examined.
Costa Rica
: 7
paratypes
,
2 males
,
5 females
from the following Conservation Area: Arenal Tilarán, Cordillera Volcanica Central, Tortuguero. I have seen one additional female from
Panamá
and labeled it as a
paratype
.
Costa Rica
, Alajuela, 1f, P.N. Arenal, Laguna Arenal, East side, Tunel del ICE, 10°27'58'N
84°44'46"W
January, (D.H. Janzen)(
INBIO
:
CRI
000
111882
); Cartago, 1f,
Turrialba
, 3.0 km
SE
,
CATIE
,
83°38'W
9°53'N
, June, (F.T. Hovore)(
FTHC
: ADP70509); Heredia, 1f, Estacíon La Selva, Puerto Viejo, 3.0 km S,
50150m
,
83°59'W
10°27'N
, October, (INBIO OET:
CRI
002231750), FVK/19/16,
Virola koschnyi
,
1m
, Puerto Viejo, 3.0 km S, Finca La Selva,
84°01'W
10° 26'N
, May, (H.
A. Hespenheide
)(
HAH
: ADP5097), 1f, March, (H.
A. Hespenheide
)(
HAH
: ADP62308); Limón,
1m
, P.N. Tortuguero, Estacíon Cuatro Esquinas, 0m, LN 280000, 590500, November, (R. Delgado)(
INBIO
:
CRI
000298655), 1f, P.N. Tortuguero, Tortuguero, Cerro Tortuguero,
0120m
, LN 285000, 588000, April, (J.
Solano)(
INBIO
:
CRI
000794066),
1m
, Finca de E. Rojas, Sector Cerro Cocori,
150m
, November, (E. Rojas)(
INBIO
:
CRI
000308104).
Specific epithet.
The specific epithet,
notcatie
,
is used as a noun in apposition based on the acronym of
CATIE
(see above), and in reference to the species described above,
A. catie
,
which this is
not
, because of the attributes described above.
Notes.
This species was collected on
Virola koschnyi
at La Selva Biological Station by the
ALAS
Project. Notcatiesubgroup stylomere 2 are similar to those of
Agra castaneipes
, see that web page. F. Hovore collected a female at combined “MV & UV lights” at
CATIE
.