Agroiconota urbanae Buzzi, 1996

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Agroiconota urbanae Buzzi, 1996 stat. restit.

Agroiconota urbanae Buzzi, 1996a: 1 (original description, incl. fig.).

Agroiconota subvittata [misidentification]: BOROWIEC (1996): 125 (faunistics); BOROWIEC (2005): 63 (Figs 15–16).

Type locality. Brazil, São Paulo, Jundiaí, Serra do Japi .

Type material. Holotype in the Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil, not examined.

Remarks. BUZZI (1996a) described this species from a single specimen, provided a detailed description and figure of dorsal habitus, enabling identification of this taxon. BOROWIEC (1998b) synonymized it with A. subvittata based on similar colour pattern formed by red stripes on yellow elytra. However, the holotype of A. subvittata has the red stripes irregular due to punctures with large black areolae, particularly in the first and second stripe, while A. urbanae has these regular and bordered with small black punctures (see Figs 15 and 37 in BOROWIEC 2005). Therefore I restore the species status of A. urbanae . The specimen of A. subvittata from Corumbá published by BOROWIEC (1996) belongs to A. urbanae (L. Borowiec, pers. comm.).

Distribution. Brazil: Mato Grosso do Sul ( BOROWIEC 1996), São Paulo ( BUZZI 1996a).