Revision of the Agrilus quadripunctatus species-group (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilini) with description of four new species
Author
Jendek, Eduard
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-03-09
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4392.2.10
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Agrilus salakot
sp. nov.
(
Fig. 1F
)
Description of
holotype
.
Size:
8.2 mm
. BODY. Shape: cuneiform; Build: robust; Color (dorsally): unicolored. HEAD. Size: very large; Medial impression: deep.
Frons
: Outline: markedly protruding head outline.
Vertex
: Sculpture elements: rugae; Sculpture aspect: arcuate; Sculpture intensity: superficial.
Eyes
: Size: smaller than half width of vertex (dorsal view); Shape: markedly protruding head outline; Lower margin: in line or below antennal socket; Median orbit: converging ventrally.
Antennae
: Length: reach to about anterior pronotal angles; Serration: from antennomere 4. PRONOTUM. Shape: visually transverse; Sides: slightly arcuate; Maximal width: at middle; Anterior margin: narrower than posterior.
Anterior lobe
: Development: obvious; Shape: arcuate; Width: broad; Position: projecting beyond anterior angles.
Posterior angles
: Shape: rectangular; Apex: sharp.
Disk
: Convexity: strongly convex; Impressions: medial and lateral; Medial impression: posteromedial only; Lateral impressions (depth): deep; Lateral impressions (width): narrow; Lateral impressions (modification): with tomentose patches.
Prehumerus
: Development: carinal; Shape: bisinuate; Extent: beyond 1/2 of pronotal length; Anterior end: joined with lateral carina; Posterior end: distant from posterior angle or margin; Arc: obvious.
Lateral carinae
: Convergence: moderate; Junction: absent; Narrowest point: at posterior 1/5–1/4 of marginal carina; Modifications: submarginal carina anteriorly and posteriorly obliterate.
Scutellum
: Size: robust. ELYTRA. Color: unicolored; Humeral carina: absent.
Apices
: Arrangement: separate; Shape: spinate; Number of cusps or spines: 1; Position of dominant projection: medial.
Pubescence
: Pairs of tomentose spots: humeral, medial, apical. STERNUM.
Prosternal lobe
: Size: large; Distal margin: arcuately emarginate; Emargination (depth): deep; Emargination (width): wide.
Prosternal process
: Shape: subparallel; Sides: straight; Angles: obtuse; Disc: flat; Projection (length): protruding distinctly beyond angles.
Metasternum
: Metasternal projection: flat. ABDOMEN. Tomentum: present.
Last ventrite
: Shape: with narrow apex; Disk: with medial carinula.
Sternal groove
: Extent: on apical ventrite; Shape on apex of last ventrite: arcuate. LEGS.
Metatarsus
: Length to metatibia: distinctly shorter.
Metarsomere 1
: Length to following tarsomeres: longer than 2–3 but shorter than 2–4. GENITALIA.
Ovipositor
: Shape: markedly elongate.
Variability.
Except for the size:
6.7–8.2 mm
without discernible variability. The male is unknown.
Diagnosis.
Agrilus salakot
is the smallest species among members of the
A. quadripunctatus
species-group. See also diagnosis at
A. luzonicola
and key to species.
Type
material.
Type
locality
:
Philippines
,
Palawan
,
Salakot
waterfalls,
800m
,
09°42'N
,
118°31'E
.
Type
specimens
.
Holotype
♀
,
1 ♀
paratype
(
EJCB
): “
Philippines
,
Palawan
,
1–21.II.
2000
, 800 m,
9°42'N
, 118°31E,
Salakot
waterfalls,
E. Jendek
leg.”
.
Distribution.
Philippines
(
Palawan
Island).
Etymology.
The specific name is a noun in apposition derived from the
type
locality “
Salakot
”.