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
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162803
Agra not
Erwin
,
new species
(
Figs. 4a, 4
b, 4c, 4d)
Holotype
.
1m
, Limón, R.B. Hitoy Cerere, Estacíon Hitoy Cerere, Sendero Bobocara,
300m
, LN 184250,1641800, MayJune, (F. Umana)(
INBIO
: ADP103257).
FIGURE 4
.
A. not
, male, dorsal aspect: a) head; b) dorsal aspect, left elytron; c) Sternum VI, male (top), female (bottom), ventral aspect; d) aedeagus, dorsal (middle), ventral (left), left lateral (right) aspects. Measures (mm): HL = 2.3; WE = 1.9; male SW = 3.5, female SW = 3.6; AL = 3.0.
Diagnosis.
This is the only species of the cajennensis speciesgroup in
Costa Rica
with interneurs with large bluetinted fovea and elytral apex (
Fig. 7
b) straight between sutural and lateral dentiform projections. Narrow with robust legs, quadrate head, and markedly convex pronotum.
Description.
Color and luster: Piceous. Appendages bright ferruginous. Surface very shiny; elytral interneur foveae with bluetinted metallic reflections. Mediumsized and narrow, females with slightly broader elytra. Head (
Fig. 4a
) behind eyes small and narrow, rounded in female, tapered in male, shorter than prothorax. Prothorax moderately short and medially swollen, gradually constricted with sides convergent to anterior collar. Elytra (
Fig. 4
b) narrow and moderately convex, apex slightly oblique, lateral tooth prominent, sutural angle acute. Abdominal sternum VI (
Fig. 4
c) deeply Vnotched in male, shallowly Unotched in female. Aedeagus (
Fig. 4
d) with ostium moderately short, apex simple, cordiform. Size: medium,
12.9 to 14.6mm
in length,
2.8 to 3.4mm
in width.
Other specimens examined.
Costa Rica
: 5
paratypes
, females, from the Pacifico Central Conservation Area: 1f, Cartago,
1.6 km
N
Turrialba
,
CATIE
,
600m
, LN 574947,208307, January, (V.M. Kirk)(
UASM
: ADP21815); 2f, Heredia, Estacíon La Selva,
10º27'N
83º59'W
, April, (R.Vargas & D. Brenes)(
INBio
:
CRI
002416950), November, (
INBIO
:
CRI
002232193); 1f, Limón, R.B. Hitoy Cerere, Estacíon Hitoy Cerere, Send. Bobocara, 300M, LN 184250,1641800, MayJune, (F. Umana)(
INBIO
: ADP103259); 1f, Puntarenas, 4.0 km N San Isidro de El General,
84°48'W
,
10°18'N
, July, (F.T. Hovore)(
FTHC
: ADP6429).
Specific epithet.
The specific epithet,
not
, is an arbitrary combination of letters.
Notes.
This species has been historically confused with
A. castaneipes
Bates
because Bates’
type
series from the Volcán de Chiriqui contains two species.
A. castaneipes
adults are generally larger, and markedly darker in color without the bluetinted interneural foveae.