Agra Fabricius (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Harpalinae: Lebiini: Agrina), Arboreal Beetles of Neotropical Forests: The Rare, Non-Neotropical Texas Species at the Generic Northern Limit, with Notes on Their Way of Life
Author
Erwin, Terry L.
text
The Coleopterists Bulletin
2017
2017-12-22
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/0010-065x-71.4.639
journal article
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10.1649/0010-065X-71.4.639
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oblongopunctata
species-group
Beetles of this rather uniform group are of medium to moderately large size and brown to black; some have aeneous to submetallic elytra in
Costa Rica
. A diagnostic combination of an
oblongopunctata
species-group adult includes the following: Labrum flat; male antenna with antennomeres more or less subequal in length (except short pedicel); female antenna with antennomere 8 short, about half the length of 7, and 9–11 somewhat shorter than 3–7; antenna of normal length reaching level of middle coxa, not markedly short and robust, nor long and markedly thin; head behind eyes elongate, evenly rounded posteriorly, more tapered to neck in the male; elytral interneurs each a series of medium to large variously separated punctures; elytral apex obliquely truncated, laterally with a small tooth, suturally obtuse; legs and tarsi normal, not markedly modified; male metasternum sparsely setigerous, abdominal sterna III–V bilaterally setigerous, setae in a patch; females simply sparsely setiferous.
Eleven species are currently recognized in the species-group:
Agra aeneola
Bates (1883)
Agra guatemalena
Csiki (1932)
Agra hypsophila
Straneo (1966)
Agra melanogona
Chaudoir (1861)
Agra negrei
Straneo (1966)
Agra oblongopunctata
Chevrolat (1835)
Agra obscuripes
Chaudoir (1854)
Agra resplendens
Chaudoir (1866)
Agra rileyi
Erwin
,
new species
Agra rosettae
Straneo (1960)
Agra vidua
Straneo (1965)