A study on the genus Agrilaxia Kerremans, 1903 from Venezuela (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Buprestinae: Anthaxiini)
Author
Bílý, Svatopluk
text
Zootaxa
2015
4039
1
173
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4039.1.8
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Agrilaxia
(
Agrilaxia
)
simillima
(
Cobos, 1972
)
(
Fig. 4
)
Anthaxia
(
Agrilaxia
)
simillima
Cobos, 1972
: 109
.
Anthaxia
(
Agrilaxia
)
simillima
:
Bílý, 1997
: 36
, 115 (catalogue).
Agrilaxia simillima
:
Bellamy, 2008
: 1507
(catalogue).
Type
specimen studied.
Holotype
by monotypy (male,
NHMB
): “2176 [blue, h] //
Costa Rica
Schmidt S. [p, framed] // cum typo comp. Dr. Hoscheck [p, framed] // Museum Frey Tutzing [green, p] //
schmidti
Obb. sec. Hoscheck [h, Cobos] //
Holotypus
[p, red]//
Anthaxia
(
Agrilaxia
)
simillima
nov. sp.
Holotypus
[h] A. Cobos det. 1968 [p]”
Further specimens studied.
COSTA RICA
: Puntarenas, Manuel Antonio,
20.iii.1996
, Dr. D. Dauber leg. (
1 male
,
NMPC
);
VENEZUELA
: Aragua, Rancho Grande,
700 m
,
14.ix.1970
, J. & B. Bechyně leg. (1 male—Fig. 4,
MIZA
); Barinas, Soledad, Carretera I,
1100 m
,
22.viii.1974
, B. Bechyně leg. (
1 male
,
NMPC
).
Note.
This species was described for a single male from
Costa Rica
in the genus
Anthaxia
(
Cobos, 1972
)
; the female is unknown.
Distribution.
Costa Rica
,
Venezuela
(new country record).