Revision of the Agrilus wittemani species - group (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilini) with description of three new species from India and Myanmar
Author
Jendek, Eduard
Author
Nakládal, Oto
text
Zootaxa
2017
2017-12-20
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4365.4.7
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Agrilus stigmulifer
sp. nov.
(
Figs 1E
,
2D
)
Description of
holotype
. Size:
4.3 mm
.
Body.
Shape: cuneiform, Build: robust, Profile: convex, Color (dorsally): unicolored.
Head.
Size: very large, Medial impression: shallow, Vertex Sculpture elements: punctures, Sculpture density: dense, Sculpture intensity: superficial, Eyes Size: subequal to half width of vertex (dorsal view), 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: markedly arcuate, Maximal width: at anterior margin, Anterior margin: subequal to posterior, Anterior lobe Development: obvious, Shape: arcuate, Width: broad, Position: projecting beyond anterior angles, Posterior angles Shape: obtuse, Apex: sharp, Disk Convexity: strongly convex, Impressions: absent, Prehumerus Development: absent, Lateral carinae Interspace: broad, Junction: absent, Modifications: submarginal carina anteriorly and posteriorly obliterate, Scutellum Size: robust.
Elytra.
Color: unicolored, Humeral carina: absent, Apices Arrangement: separate, Shape: arcuate, Pubescence Pairs of spots: medial, Color: unicolored, Extent: entire ornamental with indication of stripes.
Sternum.
Prosternal lobe Size: large, Distal margin: arcuately emarginate, Emargination (depth): shallow, Emargination (width): wide, Prosternal process Width: narrow, Shape: narrowed, Sides: straight, Angles: absent, Disc: flat, Metasternum Metasternal projection: impressed.
Abdomen.
Tomentum: present, Basal ventrite Modifications: without modifications, Pygidium Apical margin: arcuate, Last ventrite Disk: impressed, Sternal groove Extent: on three apical ventrites, Shape on apex of last ventrite: arcuately sinuate.
Legs.
Metatarsus Length to metatibia: about as long or longer, distinctly shorter, Metatarsomere 1 Length to following tarsomeres: subequal or longer than 2–4.
Genitalia.
Aedeagus Symmetry: symmetric, Shape: widest in apical part.
Variability
. Size:
4.2–5.2 mm
. Pronotum sometimes widest at middle. Sexual dimorphism. The female is generally more robust than male. The ovipositor is square (uritiform).
Diagnosis
. See differential diagnosis at
A. stigmula
sp. nov.
and characters given in the key.
Type
material
.
Type
locality
:
India
,
Tamil Nadu
,
15 km
SE of Kotagiri
,
Kunjapanai
[
11°22'N
,
076°56'E
].
Type
specimens
.
Holotype
,
50 paratypes
(
EJCB
,
MCCI
): “S
India
,
Tamil Nadu
,
17–22.V.1997
, 15 km
SE Kotagiri
,
11°22'N
,
76°56'E
,
Kunchappanai
,
Dembický
&
Pacholátko
leg.”
;
5 paratypes
(
EJCB
): “
India
S,
Tamil Nadu
,
Nilgiris
,
15 km
SE of Kotagiri
,
Kunchappanai
,
900 m
,
11.22 N
76.56 E
,
7–22.v.2000
, leg.
P. Pacholátko
”
.
1 ♂
,
1 ♀
paratypes
(
EJCB
): “
India
S,
Tamil Nadu
,
Nilgiri Hills
,
11 km
SE of Kotagiri
, 1100±
100 m
,
11.24 N
76.56 E
,
Kunchappanai
, leg.
L. Dembický
,
3–15.v.2002
”.
Distribution.
India
(
Tamil Nadu
).
Etymology
. The specific name is derived from the Latin noun
stigmula
(small mark) and the suffix -
fer
(- bearing). The name refers to round spot on each elytron of the species.