Agrilaxia (Agrilaxia) balloui Fisher, 1942

Bílý, Svatopluk, 2015, A study on the genus Agrilaxia Kerremans, 1903 from Venezuela (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Buprestinae: Anthaxiini), Zootaxa 4039 (1), pp. 173-182 : 174

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4039.1.8

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:23C77F3B-CEB3-46CA-9EA2-AF137A9E2A91

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5741208

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AA87FA-FFA1-FFD8-FF7D-F3AD5423F095

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Plazi

scientific name

Agrilaxia (Agrilaxia) balloui Fisher, 1942
status

 

Agrilaxia (Agrilaxia) balloui Fisher, 1942 View in CoL

( Figs. 1 View FIGURES 1 – 9. 1 , 10 View FIGURES 10 – 15 )

Agrilaxia balloui Fisher, 1942:89 View in CoL .

Agrilaxia balloui: Blackwelder, 1944: 314 View in CoL (catalogue). Anthaxia (Agrilaxia) balloui: Cobos, 1972: 93 View in CoL ; Bílý, 1999: 232 (catalogue). Agrilaxia balloui: Bellamy, 2008: 1499 View in CoL (catalogue).

Type specimen studied. Holotype by monotypy (female, USNM): “El Valle, Venez 734, C. H. Ballou [p] // on Meliccocus bijugatus, ix-25 -39 [h] // Lot. no. 41-18418 [h] // Type No. 56420 U. S. N. M. [red, p+h] // Agrilaxia balloui Fisher [h] ”.

Additional specimens studied. COLOMBIA: Cesar, Valledupar, xii.1994 (1 male, 1 female—Fig. 1, NMPC). VENEZUELA: Aragua, 31.v.1988 // coll. J. M. Gonzalez // a la luz (1 male, NMPC); Carabobo, 12.vi.1985 // Palmichal, cr. Carabobo, 1000 m // J. A. Clavijo, A. Chacon. H. col. (1 female, MIZA; 1 female, NMPC); Estación Experimental San Nicolas, 56 km de Guanare, 180 m, 17.vi.1970 // F. Fernandez Y. col. (1 male, NMPC); El Limón. AR, 450 m, 22.ii. [19]60 // M. Gelbes col. (1 female, MIZA); El Valle D. F., 6.vii.1938, C. H. Ballou // 734 // En Datura stramonium // Agrilaxia balloui Fisher según det. W. S. Fisher // Col. C. H. Ballou, Div. Entomologia MAC (1 male, MIZA).

Description of the male. Since the species was described for the single female ( Fisher, 1942) and also Cobos (1972) did not mention a male I am hereby giving a brief diagnosis of the male. It differs from the female by the unicolorous, green elytra without the circumscutellar triangle, entirely green frons with poorly defined, dark, medial stripe, less bright ventral colouration, slightly truncate anal ventrite and by the strongly dentate anal tergite. Aedeagus ( Fig. 10 View FIGURES 10 – 15 ) long, slender, almost spindle-shaped, dorsal surface of parameres uneven.

Note. According to Cobos (1972), also one female deposited in USNM was collected on Datura stramonium L. ( Solanaceae ) which is most probably not a host plant. More reliable is the record of Meliccocus bijugatus ( Sapindaceae ) as the host plant of this species ( Fisher, 1942).

Distribution. Colombia (new country record), Venezuela.

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

NMPC

National Museum Prague

MIZA

Museo del Instituto de Zoologia Agricola Francisco Fernandez Yepez

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Buprestidae

Genus

Agrilaxia

Loc

Agrilaxia (Agrilaxia) balloui Fisher, 1942

Bílý, Svatopluk 2015
2015
Loc

Agrilaxia balloui:

Bellamy 2008: 1499
Bily 1999: 232
Cobos 1972: 93
Blackwelder 1944: 314
1944
Loc

Agrilaxia balloui

Fisher 1942: 89
1942
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