Agrilus tesselatus, Jendek, Eduard, 2013

Jendek, Eduard, 2013, Revision of the Agrilus occipitalis species-group (Coleoptera, Buprestidae, Agrilini), ZooKeys 256, pp. 35-79 : 52-53

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.256.4272

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scientific name

Agrilus tesselatus
status

sp. n.

Agrilus tesselatus   ZBK sp. n. Fig. 1 (habitus of holotype)

Description.

BODY. Size: 9.9 mm (Holotype).Shape: subparallel, Build: robust, Posterior tapering part: short with broad apex, Color (dorsally): unicolored. HEAD. Medial impression: deep, Epistoma: raised above frons, Frons: Shape: markedly convex, Vertex: Shape: markedly convex, Sculpture elements: rugae, Sculpture shape: semispherical, Eyes: Size: small, Shape: markedly protruding head outline, Lower margin: in line or below with antennal socket, Medial orbit: converging ventrally, Antennae: Length: short, Width: solid, Serration: from antennomere 5, Antennomere 7-10 (shape): without collum, Antennomere 7-10 (length): markedly wider than long. PRONOTUM. Shape: transverse, Sides: straight, Maximal width: at posterior margin, Anterior ma rgin: narrower than posterior or subequal to posterior, Anterior lobe: Size: obvious, Position: projecting beyond anterior angles, Posterior angles: Shape: obtuse, Apex: blunt, Disk: Convexity: strongly convex, Impressions: absent or medial and lateral, Medial impression: anteromedial and posteromedial, Lateral impressions (intensity): shallow, Lateral impression (size): narrow, Prehumerus: Development: carinal, Shape: straight, Anterior end: distant from lateral carina, Posterior end: distant from angles and margin, Lateral carinae: Convergence: moderately convergent, Junction: present, Narrowest point: at posterior angles, Scutellum: Disc: impressed, Scutellar carina: obsolete or absent. ELYTRA. Color: monochromatic, Humeral carina: absent, Apices: Arrangement: separate, Shape: subtruncate, Truncation: transverse, Pubescence: Color: monochromatic, Extent: entire ornamental. STERNUM. Prosternal lobe: Distal margin: angulately emarginate, Delimitation: angulate, Emargination (width): wide, Prosternal process: Shape: subparallel, Sides: straight, Angles: rectangular, Angles (tips): blunt, Disc: flat, Projection (extend): distinctly beyond angles, Mesosternum: Mesosternal projection: flat. ABDOMEN. Tomentum: absent, Pygidium: Apical margin: arcuate, Sternal groove: Extent: on apical ventrite, Shape on the apex of last ventrite: angulately sinuate, Emargination (width): markedly wide. LEGS. Metatarsus: Size to metatibia: distinctly shorter than metatibia, Tarsomere 1: Size to following tarsomeres: longer than 2-3 but shorter than 2-4. GENITALIA. Ovipositor: Shape: square (uritiform).

Diagnosis.

The very distinctive species which differs from all other members of Agrilus occipitalis species-group mainly by characters given for the subgroup definition. See also Appendix.

Type locality.

NorthVietnam, Tonkin, Ninh Binh province, Cuc-Phuong national park, 20°18'N, 105°39'00"E.

Type material.

Holotype (Fig. 1), ♀, (EJCB): "Vietnam N, Tonkin, Cuc-Phuong nat. park, 2-12. V. 1991, E. Jendek leg.".

Adult occurrence:

5.

Host plant.

Unknown.

Distribution.

VIETNAM: Ninh Binh.

Etymology.

The specific name is the Latin adjective tesselatus (checkered). It refers to the elytral pubescence of the species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Buprestidae

Genus

Agrilus