Agra pia Liebke

Erwin, Terry L., 2002, The Beetle Family Carabidae of Costa Rica: Twenty­nine new species of Agra Fabricius 1801 (Coleoptera: Carabidae, Lebiini, Agrina), Zootaxa 119, pp. 1-68 : 52-53

Agra pia Liebke

( Figs. 23a, 23 b, 23c, 23d)

Agra pia Liebke 1940:236 . Holotype: Presumed lost. Neotype, here designated, Costa Rica: Puntarenas, Las Cruces, 08º46'N 82º 57'W, February (F.T. Hovore)( INBio : ADP 100515)

Diagnosis. Agra pia is the only species in Costa Rica whose adults have the following attributes: Metallic purple elytra with slightly prominent sutural tooth. Pronotal disc with raised median keel on the anterior portion. Black, pronotum with light greenish brasslike luster, elytra purple, with light green brasslike luster. Antennae, legs and ventral side black.

Description. Color and luster: Black. Antennae, legs and ventral side black. Shiny, pronotum with light greenish brasslike luster, elytra purple, with light green brasslike luster. Form: Female (see Notes). Head ( Fig. 23a ) behind eyes short and quadrate, slightly tapered in male, vertex dimpled dorsally. Elytron ( Fig. 23 b) with apex slightly oblique, lateral tooth small, sutural tooth produced, acute; interneurs of very fine nearly contiguous punctulae; intervals slightly convex on disc. Male venter without accessory patches of setae. Sternum VI ( Fig. 23 c) deeply emarginate in male, narrowly v­notched in female. Aedeagus ( Fig. 23 d) with ostium elongate, slightly constricted medially, apex a simple cordiform lobe, parameres glabrous. Size: small, 12.9mm in length, 3.2mm in width in width.

Other specimens examined. Only the Neotype is known.

Notes. Liebke’s description was adequate to allow recognition of this species without access to the types.

Figures

FIGURE 23. A. pia, male, dorsal aspect: a) head; b) apex of elytron; c) Sternum VI, male (top), female (bottom scanned from Liebke, 1940), ventral aspect; d) aedeagus, dorsal (top), ventral (middle), left lateral (bottom) aspects. Measures (mm): HL = 2.1; WE = 1.5; male SW = 2.8, AL = 3.1.