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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="116F41260765ACBF49F0135C596C448B" docLanguage="en" docName="ZooKeys 66: 1-28" docOrigin="ZooKeys 66" docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.66.684" docTitle="Agra piranha Erwin 2010, sp. n." docType="treatment" docUuid="0B2DB88C-89F6-485D-B2FB-C2B54813D0DC" docUuidSource="ZooBank" docVersion="6" id="AD1FFFAF9122FFEAFF8EEF3BE966F439" lastPageNumber="18" 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="17" 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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<mods:date>2010</mods:date>
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<mods:identifier type="DOI">http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.66.684</mods:identifier>
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<treatment ID-GBIF-Taxon="159360650" LSID="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:0B2DB88C-89F6-485D-B2FB-C2B54813D0DC" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/116F41260765ACBF49F0135C596C448B" lastPageId="17" lastPageNumber="18" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">
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<taxonomicName LSID="116F4126-0765-ACBF-49F0-135C596C448B" authority="Erwin" authorityName="Erwin" authorityYear="2010" class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Agra" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Agra piranha" order="Coleoptera" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="piranha" status="sp. n.">Agra piranha Erwin</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicNameLabel pageId="16" pageNumber="17">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 8–9" captionStartId="F5" captionText="Figures 8 - 9. 8 Agra piranha Erwin, sp. n., male genitalia (dorsal, ventral, left lateral aspects) (ADP 087440) 9 Agra piranha Erwin, sp. n., female stylomeres (dorsal aspect) (ADP 117227)." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/14828" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Figs 8, 9</figureCitation>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 11" captionStartId="F7" captionText="Figure 11. Distribution map of the species of the piranha group." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/14830" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">11</figureCitation>
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="16" pageNumber="17" type="holotype">
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<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Holotype:</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17">
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Ecuador:</emphasis>
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Orellana, 1 km S Onkone Gare Camp, Entomology Transect, 216m, "0.6569°S, 76.4527°W," 2 July 1995 (T.L. Erwin, et al.)(NMNH: ADP 087440, male).
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="16" pageNumber="17" type="derivation of specific epithet">
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<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Derivation of specific epithet.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17">
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The epithet "
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">piranha</emphasis>
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" or
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<normalizedToken originalValue="piraña">pirana</normalizedToken>
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, is a translation of the Huaorani word, Onkone Gare, the name of the camp near which the holotype was discovered.
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="16" pageNumber="17" type="proposed english vernacular name">
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<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Proposed English vernacular name.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17">
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Piraña">Pirana</normalizedToken>
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Elegant Canopy Beetle.
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<subSubSection pageId="16" pageNumber="17" type="diagnosis">
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<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17">With the attributes of the genus and species-group as described above and brassy pronotum, legs unicolored, frons laterad unicarinate, smooth, prothorax not setiferous laterally, and elytra barely constricted at apical third, side margin slightly arcuate, apex truncate, barely lobed medially.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Description.</paragraph>
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<paragraph lastPageId="17" lastPageNumber="18" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">
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(
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 8–9" captionStartId="F5" captionText="Figures 8 - 9. 8 Agra piranha Erwin, sp. n., male genitalia (dorsal, ventral, left lateral aspects) (ADP 087440) 9 Agra piranha Erwin, sp. n., female stylomeres (dorsal aspect) (ADP 117227)." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/14828" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Fig. 8, 9</figureCitation>
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).
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Size</emphasis>
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: Very small, ABL = 7.18 - 7.29 mm, SBL = 5.98 - 6.13 mm, TW = 1.76 - 1.86 mm.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Color:</emphasis>
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Head black with bluish reflection posteriorly,
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<pageBreakToken pageId="17" pageNumber="18" start="start">body</pageBreakToken>
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and legs with metallic blue reflections, elytra metallic cobalt blue; antennae and mouthparts piceous, scape with slight metallic blue reflections.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Luster:</emphasis>
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Shiny metallic, elytra matte.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Head:</emphasis>
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Labrum moderately elongate and rounded at corners, slightly emarginate medially. Frons medially raised and smooth, laterally depressed and uni-carinate. Gena slightly tapered, hind angle obtuse to constricted neck in both sexes. Genae and occiput with moderately dense and coarse punctures, some setiferous.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Prothorax:</emphasis>
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Slightly broader medially, flared basally; surface densely punctuate, disc each side with three long setae; lateral elongate callous with single row of non-setiferous punctures along middle.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Pterothorax:</emphasis>
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Elytron markedly convex, intervals moderately costate, interneurs of rows of somewhat laterally ovate punctures, apex truncate, barely lobate, apical dentation asymmetric, lateral tooth small, acute, sutural apex not produced, rounded. Metasternum sparsely setiferous in both sexes.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Legs:</emphasis>
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Middle tibia of male with dense brush of short setae on medial margin.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Abdomen</emphasis>
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: Abdominal sterna III, IV, and V of both sexes sparsely setiferous bilaterally; sternum VII of both sexes very slightly emarginate.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Male genitalia:</emphasis>
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Phallus (
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 8–9" captionStartId="F5" captionText="Figures 8 - 9. 8 Agra piranha Erwin, sp. n., male genitalia (dorsal, ventral, left lateral aspects) (ADP 087440) 9 Agra piranha Erwin, sp. n., female stylomeres (dorsal aspect) (ADP 117227)." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/14828" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Fig. 8</figureCitation>
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) elongate, narrow, with moderately broad arrow-shaped apex; ostium elongate. Parameres small, left twice the size of the right, both broadly rounded.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Female ovipositor:</emphasis>
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Stylomere 2 (
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 8–9" captionStartId="F5" captionText="Figures 8 - 9. 8 Agra piranha Erwin, sp. n., male genitalia (dorsal, ventral, left lateral aspects) (ADP 087440) 9 Agra piranha Erwin, sp. n., female stylomeres (dorsal aspect) (ADP 117227)." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/14828" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Fig. 9</figureCitation>
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).
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="17" pageNumber="18" type="dispersal potential">
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<paragraph pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Dispersal potential.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="17" pageNumber="18">These beetles are macropterous and are probably capable of flight; they are swift and agile runners.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="17" pageNumber="18" type="way of life">
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<paragraph pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Way of life.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="17" pageNumber="18">
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Adults are found in the canopy of terre firme 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="Erwin" authorityYear="2010" class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Agra" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Coleoptera" pageId="17" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="piranha">Agra piranha</taxonomicName>
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occur at lowland altitudes in the Amazon Basin. Adults are active in July and October, in both the rainy and transition seasons. The holotype was fogged from the hardwood
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<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Lecythidaceae" genus="Eschweilera" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Ericales" pageId="17" pageNumber="18" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="subSpecies" species="cf" subSpecies="laevicarpa">Eschweilera cf. laevicarpa</taxonomicName>
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in the familyLecythidaceae. The paratype was fogged from a mixed canopy consisting of the palms
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Ruiz & Pav" authorityYear="1798" class="Liliopsida" family="Arecaceae" genus="Iriartea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Arecales" pageId="17" pageNumber="18" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="deltoidea">Iriartea deltoidea</taxonomicName>
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Ruiz. & Pav. and
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Spruce" authorityYear="1859" class="Liliopsida" family="Arecaceae" genus="Wettinia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Arecales" pageId="17" pageNumber="18" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="maynensis">Wettinia maynensis</taxonomicName>
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Spruce, and the hardwood
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<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Fabaceae" genus="Macrolobium" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Fabales" pageId="17" pageNumber="18" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="subSpecies" species="cf" subSpecies="ischnocalx">Macrolobium cf. ischnocalx</taxonomicName>
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, plus an unidentified species ofApocynaceae.
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<subSubSection pageId="17" pageNumber="18" type="other specimens examined">
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<paragraph pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Other specimens examined.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="17" pageNumber="18">
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Ecuador:</emphasis>
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Rio Tiputini, Erwin Transect, 232m, "0.63173°S, 76.14420°W," 23 October 1998 (T.L. Erwin, et al.)(NMNH: ADP 117227, female paratype).
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<subSubSection pageId="17" pageNumber="18" type="geographic distribution">
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<paragraph pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Geographic distribution.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="17" pageNumber="18">
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(
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 11" captionStartId="F7" captionText="Figure 11. Distribution map of the species of the piranha group." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/14830" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Fig. 11</figureCitation>
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). This species is currently known from the Ecuadorian Amazon Basin.
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