Agrilus funestus Gory, 1841

Hespenheide, Henry A., 2007, The identity of Agrilus impexus Horn, a new species, and taxonomic notes and records for other Agrilus Curtis species (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), Zootaxa 1617 (1), pp. 57-66 : 65-66

Agrilus funestus Gory

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Agrilus funestus Gory, 1841: 221 .

Diagnosis. Slender ( Fig. 4 ), coppery-red throughout; pronotum with disk transversely rugose, deeply depressed and sparsely setose along midline for entire length, lateral margins nearly parallel; elytra with stripes of setae in sutural depression on posterior 5/6, apices separately prolonged, acute, with small teeth; apex of vertical portion of first abdominal ventrite expanded, setose; spots of setae on upper anterior angles of abdominal ventrites 3 and 4 ( Fig. 4 ). Genitalia as in Fig. 5 .

Specimens examined. Texas: Tom Green Co., San Angelo, 05.05.1982, T . W. Fuchs ( TAMU). Guatemala: Alta Verapaz, Lanquin, 1000ft., 02, 03, 11.061948, R . D. Mitchell ( FMNH); El Progresso, 3–7 km N Estancia de la Virgen, 1000–1500 m, 24.06.1993, F. Génier ( CMNC), 12 km N Estancia de la Virgen , 1400 m, 05.06.1991, R . Anderson ( CMNC) .

Discussion. This widespread species has been reported from Tabasco and Veracruz (Waterhouse 1889), as well as from the Mexican states of Chiapas, México, Oaxaca and San Luis Potosí (Westcott et al. 1989) and from Colima, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Michoacán, Nayarit and Puebla, and from Honduras ( Westcott and Hespenheide 2006). The species keys to A. nevadensis Horn in Fisher’s key (1928), but differs in color, pronotal sculpture, pattern of setae and nature of the apices of the elytra, and pattern of setae on abdominal ventrites. Specimens vary in size from 7.6–10.8 mm in length (mean = 9.17 mm, N = 46).

Figures

FIGURES 1–5. 1–3, Genitalia of male Agrilus: 1. A. impexus (New Mexico, Jemez Springs, CASC); 2. A. paraimpexus (Holotype); 3. A. addendus (Texas, Rocksprings, CHAH), scale bar indicates 1.0 mm; 4–5, Agrilus funestus Chevrolat: 4. dorsal habitus and lateral habitus (Texas specimen), scale bar indicates 2.0 mm; 5. genitalia of male (specimen from Mexico, Chiapas, 2 mi NNW Pueblo Nuevo, LLU Biol. Sta., 12.07.1965, G.H. Nelson, FSCA), scale bar indicates 1.0 mm.