Agrilus gunjii

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 : 16

Agrilus gunjii Tôyama

Fig. 16

gunjii Tôyama, 1987: 311 –312.

Diagnosis. This species is very distinctive by the strikingly bicolored dorsal side of the body and by the dense, golden pubescence on the apical half of elytra.

Length. 7.0 mm.

Type series. Agrilus gunjii Tôyama, 1987 . Holotype, 3, NSMT: “ Cameron Highlands, Malaya [p] 18. V. [h] 19 [p] 86, Y. Gunji [p] \ HOLOTYPE [p] Agrilus gunjii Tôyama, 1986 [h] [red label]”. Described from a single male. Type locality. West Malaysia, Cameron Highlands.

Specimens examined. Known only from the holotype.

Distribution. Peninsular Malaysia.

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.