A study on the genus Agrilaxia Kerremans, 1903 from Venezuela (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Buprestinae: Anthaxiini) Author Bílý, Svatopluk text Zootaxa 2015 4039 1 173 182 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.4039.1.8 5acfa83d-456f-4f52-9bb8-37a04b0b2789 1175-5326 239842 23C77F3B-CEB3-46CA-9EA2-AF137A9E2A91 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 .