Agrilaxia (Agrilaxia) bongrandi ( Cobos, 1972 )

Bílý, Svatopluk & Brûlé, Stéphane, 2013, A study on the genus Agrilaxia of French Guiana (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Anthaxiini), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 53 (2), pp. 657-686 : 663

Agrilaxia (Agrilaxia) bongrandi ( Cobos, 1972)

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Anthaxia (Agrilaxia) bongrandi Cobos, 1972: 120 .

Anthaxia (Agrilaxia) bongrandi: BÍLÝ (1997: 16 , 53; catalogue).

Agrilaxia bongrandi: BELLAMY (2008: 1500 ; catalogue).

Type specimen studied. HOLOTYPE ( MNHN, ♀): “ Guyane Francaise, Dr. Bongrand, 1913”.

Further specimens studied. FRENCH GUIANA: ROUTE DE RÉGINA: Piste de Kapiri, PK 125+6, 1.vi.2011, ex larva, J.-L. Giuglaris leg. (2 ♀♀, NMPC). COMMUNE DE ROURA: Montagne de Chevaux , RN2 PK22, 4°44′56′′N 52°26′28′′W, 12.iii.2001, PIV, 90 m, P.-H. Dalens leg. (2 ♀♀, NMPC) ; Route de Kaw : PK29, 23.ii.2008, ex larva, P.-H. Dalens leg. (1 ♀, NMPC) ; Kaw , Patawa, PK 37, 30.ix.2000, A. Matoca leg. (1 ♀, NMPC). COMMUNE DE MANA: Réserve Naturelle de la Trinité , zone Aya 4, 4°36′2.8′′N 53°24′42.9′′W, 24.vii.2012, ex larva, Y. Braet, P.-H. Dalens & S. Fernandez leg. (1 ♀, NMPC). MATITI: PIV, 9.vi.2011, J.-L. Giuglaris leg. (1 ♀, NMPC). MATOURY: La Mirande, 15.viii.2006, ex larva, J. Touroult leg. (1 ♀, very damaged, NMPC). PETIT SAUT: 8.iii.1993, Marek & Seidl leg. (1J, NMPC) ; the same data but 1.iv.1993 (1 J, NMPC) .

Note. Described for a single female, and also in the studied material we did not find any males. Agrilaxia bongrandi is one of the species already known from French Guiana, and it resembles smaller and darker specimens of A. bahiana ( Cobos, 1972) from which it differs by the slender body, very shallowly grooved frons, coarse pronotal sculpture, deeply emarginate lateral pronotal margins in front of posterior angles, unicolorous, black colouration of the ventral surface (except for the green laterotergites) and by the form of scutellum, which is somewhat wider than long.

Length: 5.2–6.2 mm.

Distribution. French Guiana.

Figures

Figs 1–8. Agrilaxia, dorsal aspect. 1 – Agrilaxia cacao sp. nov., holo- type ♀, 7.2 mm; 2 – A. bongrandi Cobos, 1972, J (Route de Cacao), 6.0 mm; 3 – A.claudei Cobos, 1972, ♀ (Bélizon), 8.0 mm; 4 – A. tristis Cobos, 1972, ♀ (Saul), 7.2 mm; 5 – A. elegans sp. nov., holotype J, 7.8 mm; 6 – A. cordicollis sp. nov., holotype J, 6.5 mm; 7 – A. glabra sp. nov., holotype ♀, 6.0 mm; 8 – A. sulcifrons sp. nov., holotype J, 6.1 mm.