Agrilus Curtis (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) of the Baja California peninsula, México
Author
Hespenheide, Henry A.
Author
Westcott, Richard L.
Author
Bellamy, Charles L.
text
Zootaxa
2011
2805
36
56
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.277078
0f7d868c-14a8-43b4-aca7-5b54c6915b0d
1175-5326
277078
Agrilus abstersus
Horn 1891
(Figs. 51–53)
Only nine specimens were examined that are attributable to this species, all from BCN:
10 km
S Valle de
Trinidad
,
2-VII-81
, on
Prosopis
, W.F. Barr
(WFBM);
40 km
E,
0.8 km
N El Rosario [30.075340°, -115.346733°], beating
Prosopis glandulosa
var.
torreyana
,
25-VI-80
, Bellamy & Westcott; Cataviña, beating
Prosopis glandulosa
var.
torreyana
,
28-VI-80
, Bellamy & Westcott (both RLWE);
7 mi
S El Mármol,
18-VI-38
; Chapala Dry Lake,
21-VI- 38
, both Michelbacher & Ross (CAS). The latter two localities, three specimens, are part of Van Dyke’s (1942)
type
series of
A. peninsularis
(
q.v.
). Elsewhere in
Mexico
A. abstersus
is known only from Sonora, Sinaloa, Puebla and Oaxaca. However, it belongs to a difficult group of species and the southern records could refer to other species. In the
U.S.
it is known only from Arizona, where it has been reared from
Acacia greggii
A. Gray (Fabaceae)
and
Castela emoryi
(Gray) Moran & Felger (Simaroubaceae)
. Adults have been collected on other leguminous trees and a species of hackberry (
Celtis
sp.,
Ulmaceae
).