Agrilus (Paralophotus) tsavoensis Curletti &amp; Sakalian 2009, sp. n.
Creators: name: Curletti, Gianfranco
name: Sakalian, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Agrilus
Agrilus tsavoensis

description: <i>Agrilus</i> (<i>Paralophotus</i>) <i>tsavoensis</i>, sp. n. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 143D96AF-D5A7-4EF8-AF1B-507EDA70B723 Fig. 28 <b>Type specimens.</b> Holotype &amp;female;: “ Kenya, Tsavo West National Park (03°30´S – 38°16´E), 4.11.2005, G. Curletti &amp; V. Sakalian leg. “. Th e holotype is deposited in IZBAS. <b>Description.</b> Body robust, subcylindrical, dark copper dorsally, underside bright copper, elytra with three spots of short golden pubescence. Head with medial depression on vertex and upper portion of frons; depression with dense punctation; width of vertex between eyes 0.37 mm; frons flattened; frons, clypeus and genae with dense white pubescence; eyes narrow, long and flat, situated frontally; antennae very short, barely reaching posterior third of eyes; antennomeres 4–11 markedly wider than long, triangular. Pronotum widest at anterior third; anterior margin straight, carinate; lateral margins strongly curved in posterior third; latero-posterior angles acute; pronotum with two wide and deep lateral depressions; disc with transverse central impression; prehumeral pronotal carinae straight, extending from posterior margin to posterior third of pronotum; marginal and submarginal carinae subparallel, not coalescent; discal sculpture consisting of transverse striae, pubescent. Scutellum large and robust, anterior margin rounded; transverse carina present; hind projection short and acutely pointed. Elytra distinctly widest at posterior third, width across humeri wider than pronotal base; humeral depressions deep, without pubescence; apices distinctly separately, arcuately acuminate, not serrulate; elytral disk with three spots of short, golden, pubescence in middle (not very distinct), posterior third and apical portions near suture; medial and postmedial spots arched; discal elytral sculpture consisting of polygonal cells. Underside. Prosternal lobe robust, evenly arcuate. Prosternal process protruding in basal portion, sides parallel between procoxae, then narrowed apically; prosternum, prosternal process, meso- and metasternum with dense, white pubescence. Ventrites with uniform dense white pubescence; apex of last ventrite distinctly emarginate, with long setae. Metatarsus shorter than metatibia; basal metatarsomere shorter than following metatarsomeres together; tarsal claws bifid with short inner tooth. <b>Size.</b> Length of the holotype 5.50 mm; width of the holotype 1.80 mm. <b>Differential diagnosis.</b> There are no other <i>Paralaphotus</i> spp. known from Kenya with the eyes situated frontally as in this species. Curletti and Dutto (1999) described two species from Tanzania, <i>Agrilus</i> (<i>Paralaphotus</i>) <i>invectus</i> and <i>A.</i> (<i>Paralaphotus</i>) <i>kenge</i> with such character, but both of these species have mucronate elytral apices. <i>Agrilus</i> (<i>Paralaphotus</i>) <i>myops</i> Curletti,1998 from Somalia has strongly denticulate elytral apices while those of <i>A. tsavoensis</i>, sp. n. is smooth. <b>Etymology.</b> Named for the type locality: Tsavo West National Park.
description: Published as part of <i>Curletti, Gianfranco &amp; Sakalian, Vladimir, 2009, Sixteen new species of Agrilus Curtis, 1825 from East Africa (Coleoptera, Buprestidae), pp. 1-29 in ZooKeys 24 (24)</i> on pages 26-27, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.24.191, http://zenodo.org/record/576548
description: {"references": ["Curletti G, Dutto A (1999) New Agrilus species from Tanzania (Coleoptera, Buprestidae). Part I. Lambillionea 99 (3): 162 - 170."]}