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
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162803
Agra schwarzeneggeri
Erwin
,
new species
(
Figs. 20a, 20
b, 20c, 20d)
Holotype
.
Male,
COSTA RICA
: Cartago,
Turrialba
,
650m
,
9º 53'N
83º38'W
, February, (H. & A. Howden)(
USNM
: ADP64794).
Diagnosis.
The male of this species has an enormously enlarged middle femur (
Fig. 19
c); females have elytra with brassygreen tint, black forebody and rufous antennomeres 311.
Description.
Color and luster: Black. Elytra with brassy green reflections. Antennomeres 34 testaceous, infuscated apically, 511 testaceous. Form: Head (
Fig. 20a
) short behind eyes, that of male tapered and rounded behind, that of female quadrate, vertex dimpled. Prothorax widest at middle, markedly tapered anteriorly in male, somewhat "swollen" at middle in female. Middle leg with markedly enlarged femur (
Fig. 20
d). Elytra broad,
not
very convex, apex (
Fig. 20
b) medially dentate, interneurs 2,4,6,8 with very large setigerous foveae, interneurs of fine closespaced punctures. Sternum VI (
Fig. 20
c) with deeply circular emargination in female, deeply vnotched in female. Aedeagus (see Notes). Size: medium, 14.0 to 17.0mm in length,
4.6 to 5.16mm
in width.
Other specimens examined.
Costa Rica
: 3
paratypes
, females, from the Cordillera Volcánica Central Conservation Area.
Costa Rica
, 1f, Cartago, Pavones
83°37'W
9°57'N
, May, (F.T. Hovore)(
FTHC
: ADP70530), 1f,
Turrialba
, 3.0 km SEIICA/
CATIE
,
83°38'W
9°53'N
, April, (E. Giesbert)(
FSCA
: ADP4420), 1f, August, (D.R. Whitehead)(
USNM
: ADP61717),
1m
, February, (H.F. Howden & A. Howden)(
UASM
: ADP54794).
Specific epithet.
The specific epithet,
schwarzeneggeri
is the Latinized genitive form of the family name of the actor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, in reference to the markedly developed (bicepslike) middle femora of the males of this species reminiscent of the actor’s physic.
Notes.
The genitalia of the dissected male is missing from the vial pinned beneath the specimen, thus has
not
been illustrated. The aedeagus of
Agra perrinae
(Straneo 1982)
has a moderately long ostium, apex of phallus a simple diamondshaped lobe which is markedly arched dorsally, parameres glabrous.