Agrilus coco, Jendek & Nakládal, 2019

Jendek, Eduard & Nakládal, Oto, 2019, Revision of the Agrilus vittatus species-group (Coleoptera, Buprestidae, Agrilinae), Zootaxa 4629 (1), pp. 77-95 : 81

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4629.1.6

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:060A63FD-49EF-4492-BF63-313D7690F026

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5924033

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039E0D6A-E116-0D56-DF89-4BA8FA27F93B

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scientific name

Agrilus coco
status

sp. nov.

Agrilus coco sp.nov.

( Fig. 1F View FIGURES 1 , 3E View FIGURES 3 )

Description of holotype. Size: 6.3 mm. Head and pronotum golden-green; elytra olivaceous-green; eyes about as width as vertex (dorsal view); frons golden-green; pronotum widest at anterior margin, anterior pronotal lobe absent; each elytron with distinct perisutural, pubescent stripe; elytral apices subangulate; prosternal lobe large and arcuate, with very feeble arcuate emargination at middle; metasternal projection distinctly impressed.

Variability. The species is known only from the male holotype.

Diagnosis. The species is distinctive by the larger size; subangulate elytral apices and by the peculiar aedeagus with membranous sensory zones of parameres sinuately emarginate ( Fig. 3E View FIGURES 3 ).

Type material. Type locality: Philippines, Mindoro Isl. , Coco Beach, 13°31’22”N, 120°57’54”E GoogleMaps .

Type specimens. Holotype ♂ ( EJCB): “ Philippines, Mindoro Isl. , Coco Beach, ex larva, 13°31’22”N, 120°57’54”E, 6.3.2016, lgt. L. Karaus ”. GoogleMaps

Distribution. PHILIPPINES: Mindoro Island.

Host plant. Unknown.

Etymology. The specific name (noun in apposition) refers to the Coco Beach where the holotype was collected.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Buprestidae

Genus

Agrilus

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