Agrilaxia (Agrilaxia) chrysifrons (Kerremans, 1896)

Bílý, Svatopluk & Brûlé, Stéphane, 2013, A study on the genus Agrilaxia of French Guiana (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Anthaxiini), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 53 (2), pp. 657-686 : 669

Agrilaxia (Agrilaxia) chrysifrons (Kerremans, 1896)

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Agrilus chrysifrons Kerremans, 1896: 162 .

Agrilaxia chrysifrons: KERREMANS (1903: 178 ; monograph); OBENBERGER (1930: 550; catalogue); BLACKWELDER (1944: 314; checklist).

Anthaxia (Agrilaxia) chrysifrons: COBOS (1972: 132 ; revision); MOORE (1986: 26; note); BÍLÝ (1997: 17, 47; catalogue); BELLAMY (2008: 1501; catalogue).

Type specimen studied. HOLOTYPE ( BMNH, ♀): “ Brésil, Manuf.[acturé de] Tabac ”.

Further specimens studied. FRENCH GUIANA: ROUTE DE KAW: PK 29, PL, 30.ix.2006, D. Camus leg. (1 J,

NMPC).

Note. It is questionable if A. chrysifrons is really from Brasil. Kerremans described many species with the same or very similar locality data: “ Brésil, Manufacturé de Tabac”. At that time tobacco was transported to Brasil from various parts of north-east South America for processing before transport to Europe.

Distribution. Brasil, French Guiana (new record).

Figures

Figs 9–16. Agrilaxia, dorsal aspect. 9 – A. purpureiventris sp. nov., holotype ♀, 6.0 mm; 10 – A. convexifrons sp. nov., holotype ♀, 5.5 mm; 11 – A. caudata sp. nov., holotype J, 6.1 mm; 12 – A. prolonga sp. nov., holo- type J, 6.7 mm; 13 – A. gui- anensis sp. nov., holotype J, 5.7 mm; 14 – A. chrysifrons (Kerremans, 1896), J (Route de Kaw), 5.0 mm; 15 – A. sp. A, J (Roura), 4.8 mm; 16 – A. sp. B, J (Roura), 4.9 mm.

Figs 17–29. 17–19 – anal tergites (17 – Agrilaxia glabra sp. nov., 18 – A. tristis sp. nov., 19 – A. caudata sp. nov.). 20–22 – anal ventrites (20 – A. glabra sp. nov., 21 – A. tristis sp. nov., 22 – A. caudata sp. nov.). 23 – most important diagnostic characters of Agrilaxia spp. (schematically): a – lateroposterior pronotal depressi- ons; b – basal pronotal tubercles; c – transverse basal depression; d – prognathous/ non-prognathous mouth parts; e – lateral margin of pronotum;f – “agriloid” carina; g – humeral swelling; h – elytral epipleura; i – posthumeral carina; j – anal ventrite; k – anal tergite. 24–29 – form of anterior prosternal margin, schematically (24 – flat or slightly convex, 25 – slightly grooved, 26 – deeply grooved, 27 – with longitudinal, lamelliform carina, 28 – with transverse rolled up carina, 29 – with medial perpendicular, peg-like spine). Not to scale.