Agrilus eyai Westcott & Noguera

Westcott, Richard L. & Hespenheide, Henry A., 2006, The description of a new species of Agrilus Curtis, with distributional records, and taxonomic and biological notes for Agrilinae and Trachyinae (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) of Mexico and Central America, Zootaxa 1367, pp. 1-35 : 13

Agrilus eyai Westcott & Noguera

This species was described ( Westcott & Noguera 1995) from a single female collected from Mexico, Jalisco, Estación de Biología Chamela. A male from the same locality, collected 4-5-VII-75, RLWE, measuring 11.57 mm long, 3.08 mm wide, differs as follows: Less robust, elytra more tapering to apex; abdomen more flattened beneath, sides of second visible segment not visible from above; fore- and mesotibiae with a mucro on inner margin at apex; aedeagus as in Figs. 1 and 2 . Another male, collected the same day, is in EBCC.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 5. 1 – 4. aedeagi of Agrilus spp.: 1, A. eyai Westcott and Noguera, dorsal; 2, same, ventral; 3, A. vandenberghei sp. nov., dorsal; 4, same, ventral. 5, dorsal habitus, A. vandenbergehi sp. nov.