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 dable
Erwin
,
new species
(
Figs. 14a, 14
b, 14c, 14d)
Holotype
.
Male,
COSTA RICA
: Heredia, Estacíon Magsasay, Parque Nacional Braulio Carrillo,
200m
,
10°24'04”N
84°02'57”W
, March, (M.
Zumbado
)(
INBio
:
CRI
000351513).
Diagnosis.
Labrum entire. All black. Elytron with regular interneurs, 2, 4, and 6 with series of moderately impressed setigerous punctures, adjacent intervals catenate; interneurs with regularly spaced and moderately cribriform punctulae; apex with more or less similarsized lateral and sutural acute dentiform projections.
Description.
Color and luster: Black. Tips of mandibles, sides of antennomeres 411, and in some specimens, sides of abdominal sterna rufopiceous. Surface very shiny. Form: Labrum entire. Head (
Fig. 14a
) behind eye elongate, taperrounded in both sexes. Prothorax subtubular, short, robust, sutures effaced, dorsal surface convex and densely punctate and transversely rugose, punctures very small. Elytron with apex (
Fig. 14
b) moderately oblique, with more or less similar lateral and sutural acute dentiform projections, margin between dentiform projections moderately lobed; interneurs with regularly spaced and moderately cribriform punctulae and 2, 4, and 6 with series of moderately impressed setigerous punctures. Metasternum with scattered setae; abdominal sterna IIIVI of male with patches of discal setae. Sternum VI (
Fig. 14
c) moderately vnotched in both sexes. Aedeagus (
Fig. 14
d) with ostium elongate, apex a double scimitar, the distal with rounded sides, parameres glabrous. Size: medium, 14.5 to 18.0mm in length,
4.28 to 4.70mm
in width.
Other specimens examined.
Costa Rica
: 5
paratypes
,
3 males
,
2 females
from the following Conservation Areas: Cordillera Volcánica Central, Guanacaste, Tortuguero.
Costa Rica
, Guanacaste,
1m
, P.N. Guanacaste, Estacíon
Pitilla
, Santa Cecilia, 9.0 km S,
700m
, 85°25'40'W
10°59'26"N
, LN 330200,380200, June, (C. Moraga)(
INBIO
:
CRI
000 819152), 1f, May, (GNP Biodiversity Survey)(
INBIO
:
CRI
001024226),
1m
, P.N. Rincón de la Vieja, Estacíon Las Pailas,
800m
, July, (K.E. Taylor)(
INBIO
:
CRI
001133380), 1f, October, (M.
A. Zumbado
)(
INBIO
:
CRI
000515130),
1m
, Limón, P.N. Tortuguero, Estacíon Cuatro Esquinas, 0m,
83°32'W
10°34'N
, LN 280000,590500, June, (E.
Quesada
)(
INBIO
:
CRI
000363904).
Specific epithet.
The specific epithet,
dable
,
is part of the Spanish word, agradable, meaning “pleasing.”
Notes.
Adults of this species are remarkably similar to those of
Agra solisi
(below) except for leg color and obliqueness of the elytral apex. An illustration of famulagroup stylomere 2 is on the
Agra fortuna
web page.