A study on the genus Agrilaxia Kerremans, 1903 from Venezuela (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Buprestinae: Anthaxiini)
Author
Bílý, Svatopluk
text
Zootaxa
2015
4039
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4039.1.8
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Agrilaxia
(
Agrilaxia
)
costaricensis
Obenberger, 1922
(
Fig. 2
)
Agrilaxia costaricensis
Obenberger, 1922
: 178
.
Agrilaxia costaricensis
:
Blackwelder, 1944
: 314
(catalogue);
Anthaxia
(
Agrilaxia
)
costaricensis
:
Cobos, 1972
: 111
;
Bílý, 1997
: 19
, 61 (catalogue).
Agrilaxia costaricensis
:
Bellamy, 2008
: 1501
(catalogue).
Type
specimen studied.
Holotype
by monotypy (female,
NMPC
): “
Costa Rica
[h, no precise data] //
Typus
[p, red] //
Agrilaxia costaricensis
m.
Type
[h] Det. D r. Obenberger [p]”.
Additional specimens studied.
COSTA RICA
: La Caja,
21.v.1933
// C. R. 1207 // En
Polygonum
sp. // Colleccion C. H. Ballou (
1 female
,
MIZA
); Punta Province,
6 km
SE
Santa Elena
,
9.–12.vi.1986
, F. T. Hovore coll. (
1 male
,
HCLA
); Punta Province,
6 km
SE
Santa Elena
,
7.–8.vi.1987
, F. T. Hovore coll., on
Croton
blossoms (
1 male
,
1 female
,
NMPC
).
ECUADOR
: [no precise data], (
1 female
,
NMPC
).
VENEZUELA
: Aragua, El Limon,
450 m
,
4.v.1976
// Luz de Mercurio // F. Fernandez Y. coll. (1 female—Fig. 2,
MIZA
); Estacion Experimental San Nicolas,
56 km
de Guanare,
180 m
,
13.iv.1972
// J. & B. Bechyně leg. (
1female
,
NMPC
).
PANAMA
:
Panama
Province,
7.5–13 km
N of El Llano,
24.–26.v.1994
, F. T. Hovore coll. (
1 female
,
HCLA
); Llano-Carti road km
8, 350 m
,
28.v.1994
, Stockwell leg. (
2 females
,
HCLA
).
Note.
Some specimens (male and female in
USNM
[
Cobos, 1972
] and a female mentioned here (La Caja) were collected on
Polygonum
sp. (
Polygonaceae
) but this plant is unlikely to be a host plant.
Distribution.
Costa Rica
,
Ecuador
,
Panama
(new country record),
Venezuela
.