Agrilus ventripotens Kerremans

Jendek, Eduard & Grebennikov, Vasily V., 2009, Revision of the Agrilus muscarius species-group (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) with description of thirteen new species from Palaearctic and Oriental regions, Zootaxa 2168, pp. 1-33 : 21-22

Agrilus ventripotens Kerremans

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ventripotens Kerremans, 1900a: 342 [replacement name for ventralis Kerremans, 1893 not Horn, 1891] Kerremans, 1903: 279 [cited as ventripoteus]. Obenberger, 1936: 1107.

= ventralis Kerremans, 1893 [preoccupied by ventralis Horn, 1891 ]

Kerremans, 1900a: 342 [synonym of ventripotens ]. Kerremans, 1903: 279 [synonym of ventripotens ]. Obenberger, 1936: 1107 [synonym of ventripotens ].

Diagnosis. This species is very distinctive by the unichromatic, black with violet tinged elytral color combined with a unichromatic whitish mosaic pubescence. Sides of pronotum arcuate, apical margin somewhat narrower than basal margin; anterior pronotal lobe wide but not extending beyond anterior angles; disk conspicuously convex; prehumerus costate, feebly arcuate, extending to about half the pronotal length, with apex distant from margin (lateral view); prosternal lobe distinctly incised ( Fig. 50 ); prosternal process expanded in straight line ( Fig. 50 ), disk flat; apex of last abdominal ventrite markedly emarginate.

Length. 3.9–4.0 mm.

Type series. Agrilus ventralis Kerremans, 1893 . Holotype by monotypy: sex not examined, BMNH: “ Type H. T. [p] [round label with red border] \ Kanara Andrewes [h] \ ventralis Type [h] \ A. ventralis Kerrem. Inde [h] \ Kerremans. 1903 –59 [p]”. Type locality. Kanara.

Specimens examined. INDIA: Karnataka: 1 Ƥ ( EJCB): “Fraserpet [= Kushalnagar], Coorg., F.R.I. Sandal Insect Survey, 15.III. [19]30”. SRI LANKA: 1 Ƥ ( EJCB): “ Sri Lanka: Anu. Dist., Padaviya Antiquities site, 20–23 July 1978 ”.

Distribution. south India: Karnataka; Sri Lanka.

Figures

FIGURES 19 – 24. Habitus of 19) A. muscarius – India (Assam); 20) A. muscarius – south Vietnam; 21) A. muscarius – China (Yunnan); 22) A. semicaducus Jendek sp. nov., Holotype; 23) A. semicaducus Jendek sp. nov., Paratype; 24) A. ventripotens – Sri Lanka. Scale bar = 1 mm.

FIGURES 50 – 57. Prosternum of 50) A. ventripotens; 51) A. pseudoharlequin, Jendek sp. nov.; 52) A. siamensis; 53) A. tiomanensis Jendek sp. nov.; 54) A. dilatipenis Jendek sp. nov.; 55) A. carinelytratus Jendek sp. nov. 56) A. kurumi; 57) A. mirei.