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<document ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.66.684" ID-GBIF-Dataset="35e99d78-af9c-400e-b111-6abc6e1d9b1d" ID-PMC="PMC3088417" ID-Pensoft-Pub="1313-2970-66-1" ID-Pensoft-UUID="AD1FFFAF9122FFEAFF8EEF3BE966F439" ID-PubMed="21594029" ID-Zenodo-Dep="576888" ID-ZooBank="176306EB63424E75AD76C4A82040A002" ModsDocAuthor="" ModsDocDate="2010" ModsDocID="1313-2970-66-1" ModsDocOrigin="ZooKeys 66" ModsDocTitle="Agra, arboreal beetles of Neotropical forests:pusilla group and piranha group systematics and notes on their ways of life (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiini, Agrina)" checkinTime="1451250911506" checkinUser="pensoft" docAuthor="Erwin, Terry L." docDate="2010" docId="09906AF4E0F84313B91118734B14B099" docLanguage="en" docName="ZooKeys 66: 1-28" docOrigin="ZooKeys 66" docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.66.684" docTitle="Agra pusilla Chaudoir 1847" docType="treatment" docVersion="5" id="AD1FFFAF9122FFEAFF8EEF3BE966F439" lastPageNumber="14" masterDocId="AD1FFFAF9122FFEAFF8EEF3BE966F439" masterDocTitle="Agra, arboreal beetles of Neotropical forests: pusilla group and piranha group systematics and notes on their ways of life (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiini, Agrina)" masterLastPageNumber="28" masterPageNumber="1" pageNumber="13" updateTime="1668164297424" updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
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<mods:title>Agra, arboreal beetles of Neotropical forests: pusilla group and piranha group systematics and notes on their ways of life (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiini, Agrina)</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Erwin, Terry L.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:affiliation>Washington DC</mods:affiliation>
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<treatment ID-GBIF-Taxon="159360651" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:09906AF4E0F84313B91118734B14B099" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/09906AF4E0F84313B91118734B14B099" lastPageId="13" lastPageNumber="14" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">
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<taxonomicName LSID="09906AF4-E0F8-4313-B911-18734B14B099" authority="Chaudoir, 1847" authorityName="Chaudoir" authorityYear="1847" class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Agra" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Agra pusilla" order="Coleoptera" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pusilla">Agra pusilla Chaudoir, 1847</taxonomicName>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 3–6" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figures 3 - 6. 3 Agra cruciaria Erwin, sp. n., male genitalia (dorsal, ventral, left lateral aspects) (ADP 070044) 4 Agra grace Erwin, sp. n., male genitalia (dorsal, ventral, left lateral aspects) (ADP 087638) 5 Agra pseuopusilla Erwin, sp. n., male genitalia (dorsal, ventral, left lateral aspects) (ADP 070045) 6 Agra pusilla Chaudoir, sp. n., male genitalia (dorsal, ventral, left lateral aspects) (ADP 060087)." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/14826" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Figs 6</figureCitation>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 10" captionStartId="F6" captionText="Figure 10. Distribution map of the species of the pusilla group. Names marked with a "? " do not have precise localities on the specimen label (s)." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/14829" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">10</figureCitation>
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Chaudoir" authorityYear="1847" class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Agra" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Coleoptera" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pusilla">Agra pusilla</taxonomicName>
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<bibRefCitation author="Chaudoir M, de" journalOrPublisher="Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des naturalistas de Moscou" pageId="22" pageNumber="23" pagination="87 - 113" refId="B4" refString="Chaudoir M, de, 1847. Notes sur le genre Agra et desciption de plusieurs especes nouvelles. Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des naturalistas de Moscou 20: 87 - 113" title="Notes sur le genre Agra et desciption de plusieurs especes nouvelles." volume="20" year="1847">Chaudoir 1847: 110</bibRefCitation>
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.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Holotype:</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="12" pageNumber="13">
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Brazil:</emphasis>
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(MNHNP: ADP 060087, male).
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="12" pageNumber="13" type="derivation of specific epithet">
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<paragraph pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Derivation of specific epithet.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="12" pageNumber="13">
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The epithet "
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">pusilla</emphasis>
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" is a Latin adjective meaning very little, small, pretty.
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="12" pageNumber="13" type="proposed english vernacular name">
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<paragraph pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Proposed English vernacular name.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Small Elegant Canopy Beetle.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="12" pageNumber="13" type="diagnosis">
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<paragraph pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="12" pageNumber="13">With the attributes of the genus and species-group as described above and frons laterally unicarinate and rugose; elytra with interneurs composed of a single row of coarse irregularly shaped punctures, apex markedly lobed medially.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Description.</paragraph>
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(
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 3–6" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figures 3 - 6. 3 Agra cruciaria Erwin, sp. n., male genitalia (dorsal, ventral, left lateral aspects) (ADP 070044) 4 Agra grace Erwin, sp. n., male genitalia (dorsal, ventral, left lateral aspects) (ADP 087638) 5 Agra pseuopusilla Erwin, sp. n., male genitalia (dorsal, ventral, left lateral aspects) (ADP 070045) 6 Agra pusilla Chaudoir, sp. n., male genitalia (dorsal, ventral, left lateral aspects) (ADP 060087)." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/14826" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Fig. 6</figureCitation>
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).
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Size</emphasis>
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: Very small, ABL = 6.28 - 6.45 mm, SBL = 5.27 - 5.37 mm, TW = 1.32 - 1.46 mm.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Color:</emphasis>
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Piceous, antennae and legs bicolored, scape and basal 5/6th of femur testaceous; antennal flagellum and mouthparts piceous.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Luster:</emphasis>
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Shiny, elytral disc somewhat matte.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Head:</emphasis>
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Labrum moderately elongate and rounded apically, slightly emarginate medially. Frons medially raised and smooth, laterally depressed, unicarinate, and shallowly rugose. Gena slightly tapered-rounded in both sexes to constricted neck. Genae and occiput moderately finely punctate and wrinkled, and with two larger punctures each of which is setiferous.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Prothorax:</emphasis>
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Slightly broader medially, flared basally; surface with densely punctures, some setiferous; lateral elongate callous with single row of setiferous punctures along middle.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Pterothorax:</emphasis>
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Elytron markedly convex, intervals not costate, interneurs of rows of single somewhat irregularly shaped punctures, apex truncate, markedly lobate, apical dentation asymmetric, lateral tooth small, acute, sutural apex slightly produced, rounded. Metasternum sparsely setiferous in both sexes.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Legs:</emphasis>
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Legs normal.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Abdomen</emphasis>
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: Abdominal sterna III to
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<pageBreakToken pageId="13" pageNumber="14" start="start">VII</pageBreakToken>
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of male moderately and bilaterally setiferous; sternum VII of males barely emarginate, corners rounded.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Male genitalia:</emphasis>
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Phallus (
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 3–6" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figures 3 - 6. 3 Agra cruciaria Erwin, sp. n., male genitalia (dorsal, ventral, left lateral aspects) (ADP 070044) 4 Agra grace Erwin, sp. n., male genitalia (dorsal, ventral, left lateral aspects) (ADP 087638) 5 Agra pseuopusilla Erwin, sp. n., male genitalia (dorsal, ventral, left lateral aspects) (ADP 070045) 6 Agra pusilla Chaudoir, sp. n., male genitalia (dorsal, ventral, left lateral aspects) (ADP 060087)." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/14826" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Fig. 6</figureCitation>
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) with ostium elongate, about half the length of the phallus, apex a small rounded lobe with basal corners. Parameres small, left twice the size of the right, both moderately rounded.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Female ovipositor:</emphasis>
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Stylomere 2 as in
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Erwin" authorityYear="2010" class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Agra" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Coleoptera" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="notpusilla">Agra notpusilla</taxonomicName>
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(
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 7" captionStartId="F4" captionText="Figure 7. Agra notpusilla Erwin, sp. n., female stylomeres (dorsal aspect) (ADP 058647)." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/14827" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Fig. 7</figureCitation>
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).
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<subSubSection pageId="13" pageNumber="14" type="dispersal potential">
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<paragraph pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Dispersal potential.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="13" pageNumber="14">These beetles are macropterous and are probably capable of flight; they are swift and agile runners.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="13" pageNumber="14" type="way of life">
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<paragraph pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Way of life.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="13" pageNumber="14">
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Adults of other
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Fabricius" authorityYear="1801" class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Agra" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Coleoptera" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Agra</taxonomicName>
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species are found in the canopy of rainforest trees; known larvae of this genus (
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<bibRefCitation author="Arndt, E" journalOrPublisher="The Coleopterists Bulletin" pageId="22" pageNumber="23" pagination="297 - 311" refId="B1" refString="Arndt, E, Kimse, S, Erwin, TL, 2001. Arboreal beetles of Neotropical forests: Agra Fabricius, larval descriptions with notes on natural history and behaviour (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiini, Agrina). The Coleopterists Bulletin 55 (3): 297 - 311" title="Arboreal beetles of Neotropical forests: Agra Fabricius, larval descriptions with notes on natural history and behaviour (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiini, Agrina)." volume="55" year="2001">Arndt et al. 2001</bibRefCitation>
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) are found under the bark of these trees, however they must also roam on the surface, as they have been collected by insecticidal fogging techniques in the very early morning before first light. Members of
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Chaudoir" authorityYear="1847" class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Agra" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Coleoptera" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pusilla">Agra pusilla</taxonomicName>
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occur at lowland altitudes in the Mata
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Atlântica">Atlantica</normalizedToken>
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. Adults are active in October, the rainy season.
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<subSubSection pageId="13" pageNumber="14" type="other specimens examined">
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<paragraph pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Other specimens examined.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="13" pageNumber="14">
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Brazil:</emphasis>
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Espirito Santo, nr. Itapemirim, Rio Itapemirim, 3m, 21.005°S, 40.834°W, 15 October 1906 (J.F. Zikan)(ZIKAN: ADP 070043, male).
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<subSubSection pageId="13" pageNumber="14" type="geographic distribution">
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<paragraph pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Geographic distribution.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="13" pageNumber="14">
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(
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 10" captionStartId="F6" captionText="Figure 10. Distribution map of the species of the pusilla group. Names marked with a "? " do not have precise localities on the specimen label (s)." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/14829" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Fig. 10</figureCitation>
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). This species is currently known from eastern Brazil.
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<subSubSection pageId="13" pageNumber="14" type="notes">
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<paragraph pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Notes.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Because of the severe deforestation over the last 100 years in the area where this species was found, it is likely it is now extinct or at least with a much smaller range.</paragraph>
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