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 detractus
Waterhouse 1889
(Figs. 29–30)
Two specimens have been seen from BCS,
1 mi
NE La Burrera,
23°30’38”N
,
110°02’40”W
,
500 m
, on living twigs/small limbs
Acacia farnesiana
(L.) Willd. (
Fabaceae
), 5/
6 X-87
, R.L. Westcott, A.D. Mudge (RLWE); Ramal Los Naranjos,
20–28 km
W Hwy. 1,
28-VIII-94
, R.L. Turnbow (RLWE). This species is widespread, often common, in
Mexico
and is also known from
Nicaragua
.
Agrilus felix
Horn 1891
(Figs. 63–64)
Horn (1894)
first recorded this species from the peninsula. We have seen many specimens from the peninsula collected as far north as
8 miles
SW Rumarosa, near the California border and south into BCS. Probably the majority have been collected in the Vizcaíno Desert, to as far south as
15 miles
W of San Ignacio. The southernmost record for this species in Baja California is interesting:
Isla
San Marcos,
22-VI-52
, J.P. Figg-Hoblyn (CAS). Dates of collection range from late March to late July, with the majority collected during April and May. In Baja California it has been taken on
Sphaeralcea
spp. (
Malvaceae
) and by beating
Prosopis glandulosa
var.
torreyana
. Elsewhere in
Mexico
it has been recorded only from Sonora and Chihuahua. It occurs widely in the western
U.S.
, as far east as Colorado and Texas. Larval hosts are recorded from several plants in
Chenopodiaceae
and
Fabaceae
, and utilizing such disparate host families seems strange, although specimens reared from legumes may instead be
A. hualpaii
Knull.
Adults have also been collected on
Psorothamnus emoryi
(A. Gray) Rydb. (Fabaceae)
.