Agra aeris, Erwin, 2000

Erwin, Terry L., 2000, Arboreal Beetles Of Neotropical Forests: Agra Fabricius, A Taxonomic Supplement For The Platyscelis Group With New Species And Distribution Records (Coleoptera: Carabidae, Lebiini, Agrina), The Coleopterists Bulletin 54 (1), pp. 90-119 : 104

005. Agra aeris , new species

( Figs. 2b, 2c, 5b, 5c, 7b, 9)

Diagnosis. Elytra bright coppery green. Mentum with median tooth short and markedly bifid, length ⅓ that of lateral lobe. Tarsomere 5 of posterior leg long and inserted into markedly emarginate tarsomere 4. Elytron with sutural apex acute (5b, c).

Description. (See Table 1): Size: ABL = 21.00–22.00 mm; SBL = 20.82– 21.64 mm; TW = 5.48–6.28 mm; LH = 4.07–4.41 mm; LP = 4.41–4.57 mm; LE = 12.00–13.00 mm.

Geographical Distribution ( Fig. 9). Known only from the type locality on the Rio Manu watershed of eastern Peru´. There, it is sympatric with the closely related A. klugii Brullé (see below).

Specimens Examined. Holotype male, PERÚ, Madre de Dios, BIOLAT Biodiversity Station , Pakitza, 11 ° 56 ̍ S, 71 ° 17 ̍ W, MUSM, T. L. Erwin & B.D. Farrell., Sept­9­1988 * BIOLAT/11645

Etymology. The name, aeris , is from the Latin meaning ‘‘of the air’’ referring the fact that these beetles live in the high frontier of the tropical forest canopy.