Obenberger, 1924 : 556
Revision of the Agrilus muscarius species-group (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) with description of thirteen new species from Palaearctic and Oriental regions
Jendek, Eduard
Grebennikov, Vasily V.
Zootaxa
2009
2168
1
33
B58T
Obenberger
Obenberger
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Insecta
Buprestidae
Agrilus
Animalia
Coleoptera
21
22
Arthropoda
species
harlequin
harlequin Obenberger, 1924: 556, 564, 592–593. Obenberger, 1936: 1085. Jendek, 2005: 11–12.
Diagnosis. This species is distinctive by the strikingly fusiform body; trichromatic color of elytral pubescence; large, apically subtruncate prosternal lobe; wide prosternal process with sides sinuately expanded; absence of humeral carinae and by the presence of tubercles on the basal abdominal ventrite. Aedeagus ( Fig. 70). Length. 4.5 mm.
Typeseries. Agrilus harlequin Obenberger, 1924. Lectotype, designated by Jendek (2005): 3, NMPC: “Kinabalu [h] \ TYPUS[p] [red label with black border] \ Agrilus harlequin Typem. [h] Det. Dr. Obenberger [p]”. The exact number of syntypesis unknown. Typelocality. Malaysia, Borneo, Kinabalu. Specimens examined. Known only from the holotype.
Distribution. Malaysia: Sabah.