The Beetle Family Carabidae of Costa Rica: Twentynine new species of Agra Fabricius 1801 (Coleoptera: Carabidae, Lebiini, Agrina)
Author
Erwin, Terry L.
text
Zootaxa
2002
119
1
68
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.162803
f514e964-2196-461c-84ff-64243643bc81
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162803
Agra liv
Erwin
,
new species
(
Figs. 15a, 15
b, 15c, 15d)
Holotype
.
Female,
COSTA RICA
:
Puntarenas, Manual Antonio National Park, Quepos,
80m
,
09°23'N
84°09'W
, January, (Bogenberger)(
ZSBS
: ADP6893).
Diagnosis
. This is the only species of the
famula
speciesgroup in
Costa Rica
that is entirely black with pale tibiae and tarsi and with normal elytral intervals.
Description
. Color and luster: Black. Tips of mandibles, sides of antennomeres 511, and in some specimens sides of abdominal sterna rufopiceous. Surface shiny. Form: Labrum entire. Head (
Fig. 15a
) behind eyes elongate, rounded in both sexes. Prothorax subtubular, short, robust, sutures effaced, widest at middle, dorsal surface moderately convex and sparsely punctate, punctures markedly small. Elytron (
Fig. 15
b) with apex with more or less similar acute dentiform projections, interneurs with small regularly spaced and slightly cribriform punctulae, adjacent intervals
not
catenate. Sternum VI (
Fig. 15
c) moderately deeply vnotched in male, shallowly vnotched in female. Aedeagus (
Fig. 15
d) ostium elongate, apex a double scimitar, parameres glabrous. Size: medium, 14.0 to
15.5mm
in length,
3.4 to 4.6mm
in width.
FIGURE 15.
A. liv
, male, dorsal aspect: a) head; b) apex of elytron; c) Sternum VI, male (top), female (bottom), ventral aspect; d) aedeagus, dorsal (top), ventral (middle), left lateral (bottom) aspects. Measures (mm): HL = 2.7; WE = 2.0; male SW = 3.6, female SW = 3.8; AL = 4.0.
Other specimens examined.
Holotype
above, and a male and female from
Panamá
are labeled as
Paratypes
.
Specific epithet.
The specific epithet,
liv
, is a noun in apposition based on the first name of the actress
Liv
Tyler, starlet of the movie, Armageddon. The existence of this species of elegant beetle is dependent upon the rainforest
not
undergoing an Armageddon which is too much to hope for.
Notes
. The single Costa Rican record above is from the Pacifico Central Conservation Area. Famulagroup stylomere 2 can be found at the
Agra fortuna
web page.