Revision of the Agrilus vittatus species-group (Coleoptera, Buprestidae, Agrilinae)
Author
Jendek, Eduard
Author
Nakládal, Oto
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-07-04
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Agrilus acacivorus
sp.nov.
(
Figs. 1A
,
3A
,
5A
)
Description of
holotype
.
Size:
4.3 mm
. Body dorsally dark bluish-black; eyes slightly smaller than width of vertex (dorsal view); frons brightly greenish-blue; pronotum widest at anterior margin, anterior pronotal lobe absent; each elytron with distinct perisutural, pubescent stripe; prosternal lobe large and strongly arcuate on anterior margin.
Variability.
Body length:
4.3–5.1 mm
. The
paratype
is bronze; anterior pronotal lobe weak; elytral perisutural stripes obscure.
Diagnosis.
The species can by reliably distinguished only by the form of aedeagus (
Figs. 3A
,
5A
) which lacks a membranous sensory zone and the apex of medial lobe (penis) is broadly rounded with a hook on each side.
Type material. Type locality:
Burma
,
Shan State
[sic!],
Taunggyi
(crest), N
21°20’ E
95°59’ [refers to
Mandalay state
].
Type
specimens.
Holotype
♂
,
1 ♂
PT (
EJCB
): “
Burma
,
Shan State
, Taunggyi (crest), N
21°20’ E
95°59’ [refers to
Mandalay state
],
XI.1952
,
G. B. Vogt
\
Fabaceae
Acacia pennata Wild.
, BU-26”.
Distribution.
MYANMAR
:
Mandalay
.
Host plant.
Larval:
Acacia pennata
(L.) Willd.
Etymology.
The specific name is derived from the host plant of the species
Acacia
and suffix -
vorus
(devour).