Revision of the Agrilus wittemani species - group (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilini) with description of three new species from India and Myanmar
Author
Jendek, Eduard
Author
Nakládal, Oto
text
Zootaxa
2017
2017-12-20
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10.11646/zootaxa.4365.4.7
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Agrilus wittemani
species–group
The group includes small to medium sized species (
4.1–6.1 mm
) known from South (
India
) and Southeast Asia (
Myanmar
,
Thailand
,
Sumatra
) and having body robust, strongly convex and cuneiform; pronotum is obviously transverse with rounded sides and striking anterior lobe often projecting beyond anterior pronotal angles, disk is distinctly convex and submarginal lateral carina is often obliterated; prehumerus varies from carinal, long and bisinuate to fully obliterated; elytral pubescence consists of 1–3 pairs of spots and transverse band in apical third; elytral apices are separately arcuate or subtruncate; tarsi are short; mesotarsus and metatarsus are subequal in length; metatarsus is distinctly shorter than metatibia; ventral side has tomentose patches in episternal and pleural region and sternal groove on apex of last ventrite is obviously arcuately sinuate.
Sexual dimorphism is not apparent; male without sexual modifications of antennae or ventral side.
Species of
Agrilus wittemani
species–group are homomorphic with species near
Agrilus ctesias
Kerremans,
1913
in having similar habitus; shape of pronotum and by absence of sexual dimorphism.