Agrilus hergovitsi Jendek & Grebennikov, 2019, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Jendek, Eduard
name: Grebennikov, Vasily V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Agrilus

description: Agrilus hergovitsi sp. nov.
(Figs. 1B, 5B)
Description of holotype. Body length: 5.4 mm. BODY. Shape: subparallel, Profile: convex, Color (dorsally): unicolored. HEAD. Size: very large, Modification: strongly convex. Vertex. Medial impression: present, Sculpture elements: rugae, Sculpture aspect: arcuate, Sculpture density: dense, Sculpture intensity: superficial. Eyes. Size: subequal or larger than width of vertex (dorsal view), Lower margin: in line or below antennal socket, Median orbit: converging ventrally. Antennae. Serration: from antennomere 4, Antennomeres 7–10: markedly longer than wide. PRONOTUM. Shape: visually elongate or square, Sides: slightly arcuate, Maximal width: at anterior margin, Anterior margin: wider than posterior. Anterior lobe. Development: obvious, Shape: arcuate, Position: at level with anterior angles. Posterior angles. Shape: rectangular, Apex: sharp. Disk. Convexity: flat, Impressions: medial and lateral, Medial impression: anteromedial and posteromedial, Lateral impressions (depth): shallow, Lateral impressions (width): broad. Prehumerus. Development: filamentary, Shape: arcuate, Extent: beyond 1/2 of pronotal length, Anterior end: adjoining to lateral pronotal carina, Posterior end: distant from posterior pronotal angle or margin, Arc: weak. Lateral carinae. Convergence: moderate, Junction: present, Narrowest point: at posterior angles. ELYTRA. Color: unicolored. Apices. Arrangement: separate, Shape: subangulate. Pubescence. Extent: distal only, Distal (shape): perisutural stripe. STERNUM. Prosternal lobe. Size: large, Position to sternum: markedly declivous, Distal margin: arcuately emarginate, Emargination (depth): shallow, Emargination (width): narrow. Prosternal process. Shape: slightly dilated, Sides: straight, Angles: obtuse, Disc: impressed with sides exserted, Projection (length): protruding distinctly beyond angles. Metasternum. Metasternal projection: impressed. ABDOMEN. Basal ventrite. Modifications: with impression(s). Pygidium. Apical margin: arcuate. Sternal groove. Shape on apex of last ventrite: arcuate. LEGS. Metafemora. Modifications: with comb of setae on inner margin. Metatarsus. Length to metatibia: distinctly shorter. Metatarsomere 1. Length to following tarsomeres: longer than 2–3 but shorter than 2–4. GENITALIA. Aedeagus. Symmetry: symmetric, Shape: widest in basal part, Modifications: apex of medial lobe markedly obtuse.
Variability. The species is known only from the holotype. For male sexual dimorphism see Diagnosis.
Diagnosis. The species is similar to A. syrphus Descarpentries & Villiers, 1963 in color and general appearance, but can be distinguished by the longer pronotum, by the gracile antennae, by the obliterated elytral pubescence, and by the shape of the aedeagus (Fig. 5B).
Type material. Type locality: Malaysia, Johor, Endau Rompin National Park, 2°37'20”N 103°20'E, altitude 120–300 m. Type specimens. Holotype ♂ (EJCB): “ Malaysia, Johor, Endau Rompin NP, 2°37'20”N 103°20'E, 23.ix.–3.x.2012, 120– 300m, R. Hergovits leg.”.
Distribution. MALAYSIA: Johor.
Etymology. Patronymic; the species is named in honor of entomologist Roman Hergovits, Slovakia, who collected the holotype.
description: Published as part of Jendek, Eduard & Grebennikov, Vasily V., 2019, Twenty more new species of Agrilus (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilinae) from the Oriental region, pp. 449-469 in Zootaxa 4564 (2) on page 451, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4564.2.7, http://zenodo.org/record/3713725