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
11755326
162803
Agra julie
Erwin
,
new species
(
Figs. 27a, 27
b, 27c)
Holotype
.
Female,
COSTARICA
:
Cartago,
Turrialba
,
600m
,
09º53'N
83º38'W
,(
CAS
:ADP10007).
Diagnosis
. This is the only species of
Agra
in
Costa Rica
with brassy nearly truncate elytra and moderately long pubescence on the venter of the prothorax. Head quadrate behind with a marked dimple on the occiput.
Description
. Color and luster: Rufous. Elytra brassy green. Appendages rufotestaceous. Form: Head (
Fig. 27a
) behind eyes short, hind angles quadrate; vertex dimpled. Pronotum and prosternum finely punctate, prothorax broad, widest at middle. Elytron with apex (
Fig. 27
b) slightly oblique, lateral tooth small, sutural apex rounded,
not
projected acutely, apical margin very slightly lobed. Metasternum of male densely pubescent; trochanter and abdominal sterna each with long scattered setae. Apex of sternum VI (
Fig. 27
c) angulate laterally in male, in female corner obtuse. Male legs unmodified, similar to females. Size: small, 9.0 to 11.0mm in length,
2.98 to 3.38mm
in width..
Other specimens examined.
Costa Rica
: 4
paratypes
,
3 females
, 1 (very teneral) male, from the following Conservation Areas: Cordillera Volcánica Central, Osa, Pacifico Central.
Costa Rica
, Cartago, 1f,
Turrialba
,
83°38'W
9°53'N
, (O. Bryant)(
CAS
: ADP10006),
1m
, January, (V.M. Kirk)(
UASM
: ADP21784); Puntarenas, 1f, P.N. Manuel Antonio, Quepos,
80m
,
84°09'W
9°24'N
, LS 370900, 448800, August, (G. Valera)(
INBIO
:
CRI
001318173), 1f, Piedras Blancas, 24.0 km W,
200m
, March May, (P. Hanson)(
UCOR
: ADP
100533
).
Specific epithet.
The specific epithet,
julie
,
is a used as a noun in apposition honoring
Julie
Parenas, past Entomology Department secretary at
CAS
(Depository for the
Holotype
of this species), who has contributed so much to the welfare of that department and its curators and staff beyond the job description.
Notes.
An illustration of rufiventrisgroup stylomere 2 is on the
Agra rufiventris
web page. The available male is so teneral that dissection of the aedeagus proved impossible.