Agra notcatie Erwin, new species
Creators: name: Erwin, Terry L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Agra
Agra notcatie

description: Agra notcatie Erwin, new species
(Figs. 22a, 22 b, 22c, 22d)
Holotype. Male. COSTA RICA: Limón, Tortuguero National Park, Estacíon Cuatro Esquinas, sea level, 10°34'N 83°32'W, November, (R. Delgado)(INBio: CRI 000­298655).
Diagnosis. Femur concolorous. Elytron with sutural and lateral apices prolonged, spinose. Male middle not excavate nor densely setose in apical half; posterior tibia with apical excavation and dense brush. Elytral apex shallowly arcuate between lateral and apical apices. Abdominal sterna III­V with 2 bilateral patches of sparse setae.
Description. Color and luster: Somber colored beetles with pale antennae, slightly infuscated femora which contrast with the pale testaceous tibiae and tarsi.
Form: Head (Fig. 22a) behind eyes moderately elongate, rounded in both sexes. Male middle and posterior tibiae neither excavate nor densely setose in apical half. Elytron with apex (Fig. 22 b) shallowly arcuate between lateral and apical apices; interneurs a series of large deep foveae. Male with sparse and scattered setae on metasternum and sparse patches of setae on abdominal sterna II, III, V and VI, only IV with two small bilateral tufts. Sternum VI (Fig, 22c) moderately V­notched, female shallowly V­notched. Aedeagus (Fig. 22 d) with ostium moderately short, apex simple, cordiform, parameres glabrous. Size: medium, 16.3 to 18.1mm in length, 3.6 to 4.2mm in width.
Other specimens examined. Costa Rica: 7 paratypes, 2 males, 5 females from the following Conservation Area: Arenal Tilarán, Cordillera Volcanica Central, Tortuguero. I have seen one additional female from Panamá and labeled it as a paratype. Costa Rica, Alajuela, 1f, P.N. Arenal, Laguna Arenal, East side, Tunel del ICE, 10°27'58'N 84°44'46"W January, (D.H. Janzen)(INBIO: CRI 000­ 111882); Cartago, 1f, Turrialba, 3.0 km SE, CATIE, 83°38'W 9°53'N, June, (F.T. Hovore)(FTHC: ADP70509); Heredia, 1f, Estacíon La Selva, Puerto Viejo, 3.0 km S, 50­150m, 83°59'W 10°27'N, October, (INBIO­ OET: CRI 002­231750), FVK/19/16, Virola koschnyi, 1m, Puerto Viejo, 3.0 km S, Finca La Selva, 84°01'W 10° 26'N, May, (H. A. Hespenheide)(HAH: ADP5097), 1f, March, (H. A. Hespenheide)(HAH: ADP62308); Limón, 1m, P.N. Tortuguero, Estacíon Cuatro Esquinas, 0m, LN 280000, 590500, November, (R. Delgado)(INBIO: CRI 000­298655), 1f, P.N. Tortuguero, Tortuguero, Cerro Tortuguero, 0­120m, LN 285000, 588000, April, (J.
Solano)(INBIO: CRI 000­794066), 1m, Finca de E. Rojas, Sector Cerro Cocori, 150m, November, (E. Rojas)(INBIO: CRI 000­308104).
Specific epithet. The specific epithet, notcatie, is used as a noun in apposition based on the acronym of CATIE (see above), and in reference to the species described above, A. catie, which this is not, because of the attributes described above.
Notes. This species was collected on Virola koschnyi at La Selva Biological Station by the ALAS Project. Notcatie­subgroup stylomere 2 are similar to those of Agra castaneipes, see that web page. F. Hovore collected a female at combined “MV & UV lights” at CATIE.
description: Published as part of Erwin, Terry L., 2002, The Beetle Family Carabidae of Costa Rica: Twenty­nine new species of Agra Fabricius 1801 (Coleoptera: Carabidae, Lebiini, Agrina), pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 119 on pages 50-51, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.162803