Agrilus samboides Fisher

Jendek, Eduard & Grebennikov, Vasily V., 2009, Revision of the Agrilus muscarius species-group (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) with description of thirteen new species from Palaearctic and Oriental regions, Zootaxa 2168, pp. 1-33 : 15-16

Agrilus samboides Fisher

Fig. 15

samboides Fisher, 1930: 86 –87.

Obenberger, 1936: 1101. Bellamy, 1994: 362.

Diagnosis. This species is similar to A. coraeboides by having a deeply emarginate apex on the last abdominal ventrite, but it differs from it by the shape of the elytral apices which are broadly, separately arcuate ( Fig. 15 ), unlike those in A. coraeboides that are conjointly arcuate ( Fig. 14 ).

Length. 4.0 mm.

Type series. Agrilus samboides Fisher, 1930 . Holotype: sex not examined, USNM: “N. Borneo Kudat [p] 13th [h] Sept. 1927 C.B.K. & H.M.P.F.M.S. Museums [p] [pink label] \ Agrilus samboides Fisher [p] \ TypeNo [p] 57439 [h] U.S. N.M. [p]”. Described from a single female. Type locality. North Borneo, Kudat.

Specimens examined. Known only from the holotype.

Distribution. North Borneo.

Remarks. The holotype is badly damaged, only the right elytron, part of the thorax and abdomen are preserved ( Fig. 15 ).

Figures

FIGURES 13 – 18. Habitus of 13) A. acastus, Holotype of junior subjective synonym A. ohbayashii; 14) A. coraeboides, Lectotype; 15) A. samboides, Holotype; 16) A. gunjii, Holotype; 17) A. hunanus Jendek sp. nov., Holotype; 18) A. apicaureus Jendek sp. nov., Holotype. Scale bar = 1 mm.