Agrilus coco, Jendek & Nakládal, 2019

Jendek, Eduard & Nakládal, Oto, 2019, Revision of the Agrilus vittatus species-group (Coleoptera, Buprestidae, Agrilinae), Zootaxa 4629 (1), pp. 77-95 : 81

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4629.1.6
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scientific name	Agrilus coco
status	sp.nov.

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Agrilus coco sp.nov.

( Fig. 1F, 3E)

Description of holotype. Size: 6.3 mm. Head and pronotum golden-green; elytra olivaceous-green; eyes about as width as vertex (dorsal view); frons golden-green; pronotum widest at anterior margin, anterior pronotal lobe absent; each elytron with distinct perisutural, pubescent stripe; elytral apices subangulate; prosternal lobe large and arcuate, with very feeble arcuate emargination at middle; metasternal projection distinctly impressed.

Variability. The species is known only from the male holotype.

Diagnosis. The species is distinctive by the larger size; subangulate elytral apices and by the peculiar aedeagus with membranous sensory zones of parameres sinuately emarginate ( Fig. 3E).

Type material. Type locality: Philippines, Mindoro Isl. , Coco Beach, 13°31’22”N, 120°57’54”E GoogleMaps .

Type specimens. Holotype ♂ ( EJCB): “ Philippines, Mindoro Isl. , Coco Beach, ex larva, 13°31’22”N, 120°57’54”E, 6.3.2016, lgt. L. Karaus ”. GoogleMaps

Distribution. PHILIPPINES: Mindoro Island.

Host plant. Unknown.

Etymology. The specific name (noun in apposition) refers to the Coco Beach where the holotype was collected.