Agrilus cerrolatus, Curletti, Gianfranco, 2010

Curletti, Gianfranco, 2010, New species of the genus Agrilus Curtis, 1825, from Nicaragua and Panamá (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilinae), Zootaxa 2333, pp. 59-68 : 65-67

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.275491
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6200320
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F274E02C-0B37-FFA4-71C3-F98EE1D0A45C
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Agrilus cerrolatus
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Agrilus cerrolatus View in CoL n. sp.

( Figure 9 View FIGURES 8 – 10. 8 )

Type specimens. Holotype 3: Nicaragua, Matagalpa Dept., Cerro Largo km 114, 28.5.2005, leg. E. van den Berghe ( MCCI).

Description of holotype. Length 5.6 mm. Uniform bronze, with white spots of pubescence on elytra. Vertex half width of head, slightly furrowed in middle, with transversal rounded striae at base. Frons with green reflection, transversely striate, with short pubescence visible in profile only. Clypeus not carinate. Eyes large, with cheeks narrow. Antennae serrate from antennomere 5. Pronotum swollen anteriorly, depressed posteriorly, wider in anterior half, slightly sinuate before base, with posterior angles obtuse. Anterior edge advanced in middle, before eyes. Disc longitudinally furrowed in middle, with superficial oblique sculpture.

Thin white pubescence is observable on sides. Prehumeral carina more than 1/3 the length of pronotum. Marginal carinae joined at base. Scutellum transversely carinate. Elytra squared at apex which is microdenticulate. Disc with short white pubescence, with exception of six (3+3) elongated spots more dense and evident, along suture, at callus, before middle, and at ¾ of length. Between these perisutural spots disc appears glabrous. Ventral side with uniform short, white pubescence, more dense at lateroterga and at metecoxa. All claws simply mucronate. Metatarsus shorter than metatibia, with first metatarsomere as long as sum of following 3 (1=2+3+4). Aedeagus black, sclerotized: median lobe with apex rounded (figure 17).

Etymology. For partial latinisation of locality name: largo = latus.

Comments. For the above mentioned characters A. cerrolatus n. sp. is unmistakable for the congeneric Central American species with 6 (3+3) pubescent spots on elytra.