Revision of the Agrilus vittatus species-group (Coleoptera, Buprestidae, Agrilinae)
Author
Jendek, Eduard
Author
Nakládal, Oto
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-07-04
4629
1
77
95
journal article
26300
10.11646/zootaxa.4629.1.6
724cf4c6-1901-4318-afdc-257b464a2416
1175-5326
3268303
060A63FD-49EF-4492-BF63-313D7690F026
Agrilus occultus
sp.nov.
(
Figs. 2A
,
3G
,
5E, 5F
)
Description of
holotype
.
Size:
4.9 mm
. Body dorsally dark-green; eyes slightly smaller than width of vertex (dorsal view); frons golden bluish-green; pronotum widest at anterior margin, anterior pronotal lobe very weak; elytra without pubescent stripes, glabrous; elytral apices separately shallowly rounded with denticulate margin; prosternal lobe large and arcuate; metasternal projection impressed.
Variability.
Body length:
3.9–5 mm
; color of
paratypes
violet-black, bronze-green or dark-green; elytra glabrous or with vestigial perisutural strips in apical third; elytral apices separately deeply rounded.
Diagnosis.
The species is homomorphic with
A. babaulti
and
A. viridicupreus
from which it can be distinguished only by the shape of medial lobe (penis) of aedeagus which is narrowly rounded or subacuminate at apex (
Figs. 3G
,
5E, 5F
).
T
ype material. Type locality:
Laos North,
Phongsaly province
, 21°41’-2’N, 102°06’-08’E,
Phongsaly
env., altitude
1500m
.
Type specimens.
Holotype
♂
(EJCB): “Lao-N,
Phongsaly prov.
,
21°41’-2’N
,
102°06’-08’E
, Phon- gsaly env.,
28.v.-20.vi.2003
,
1500m
,
P. Pacholátko
leg.”
.
Paratypes
.
LAOS
.
Houaphan
.
“Laos-NE,
Hua Phan Province
,
Ban Saleui
,
Phou Pan
(
Mt
),
20°12’N
,
104°01’E
,
1-31.v.2011
,
1300-1900m
, leg.
C. Holzschuh
”
1 ♂
PT,
1 ♀
PT (
EJCB
)
.
THAILAND
.
Chiang Mai
.
“NW Thailand, 19-23,
Chiang Mai
, 4.1991, Doi Suthep to Doi Pui,
J. Horák
leg.”
1 ♂
PT (
EJCB
)
.
Mae Hong Son
.
“NW Thailand,
19.19N
,
97.59E
,
Mae Hong Son
, 1991, Ban Huai Po,
1600-2000m
,
30.iv.-5.v.
,
L. Dembický
leg.”
1 ♂
PT (
EJCB
)
.
“
Thai
10-13/5.1993,
19°27’N
,
98°20’E
, Soppong,
1550 m
,
Vít Kubáň
leg.”
2 ♂
PT (
EJCB
)
.
“
Thailand
, 1-
8.5.1993
, Soppong-Pai,
1800 m
,
Pacholátko
&
Dembický
leg.”
1 ♂
PT (
EJCB
)
.
Distribution.
LAOS
:
Houaphan
,
Phôngsali
;
THAILAND
:
Chiang Mai
,
Mae Hong Son
.
Host plant.
Unknown.
Etymology.
The specific name is derived from the Latin adjective
occultus
(difficult to see) which refers to the species homomorphy (see Diagnosis).