Agrilus (Agrilus) gueorguievi 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 gueorguievi

description: <i>Agrilus</i> (<i>Agrilus</i>) <i>gueorguievi</i> <i>,</i> sp. n. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: C1AE19BC-A3DF-40A3-9B1C-AE8BECC0CD4F Figs 3, 4 <b>Type specimens.</b> Holotype ♁: “ Kenya, Tsavo West National Park (03°30´S – 38°16´E), 7.11.2005, G. Curletti &amp; V. Sakalian leg.”. Paratypes 14 exs: 2 ♁♁ and 4 &amp;female; &amp;female; with same locality and date as holotype; 3 ♁♁ and 5 &amp;female; &amp;female;: “ Kenya, western of Voi City (03°26´S – 38°30´E), 4.11.2005, G. Curletti &amp; V. Sakalian leg.”. Th e holotype is deposited in IZBAS and the paratypes in GCCI, IZBAS and NMK. <b>Description of holotype.</b> Body short, subcylindrical, dark copper with blackish tinge, vertex and frons of male black; elytra with uniform, dense and short white pubescence. Head with very narrow medial sulcus and very fine longitudinal striae on vertex; vertex and frons black; width of vertex between eyes 0.55 mm; frons convex, protruding in dorsal view; upper portion of frons densely punctuate; lower portions of frons rugose; clypeus separated from frons by sharp carina; clypeus and genae with short, dense, white pubescence; eyes convex, very small; antennae short, barely reaching anterior portion of pronotum; antennomeres 4–11 wider than long, triangular. Pronotum widest at anterior third; anterior margin straight, carinate; anterior pronotal lobe absent; lateral margins slightly curved before latero-posterior angles; lateroposterior angles slightly obtuse; pronotum with two medial and two lateral shallow depressions; prehumeral pronotal carinae absent; marginal and submarginal carinae subparallel, not coalescent; discal sculpture consisting of transverse striae and sparse punctuation; pubescence on disc very sparse and white. Scutellum small, anterior margin rounded; transverse carina present; apical projection long and acutely pointed. Elytral width across humeri slightly wider than pronotal base, widest at posterior third; humeral depressions deep and wide; apices narrowly jointly arcuate, not serrulate; elytra with short, uniform, white pubescence; discal elytral sculpture consisting of transverse wrinkles. Underside. Prosternal lobe with anterior margin truncate. Prosternal process parallel between procoxae, acuminate apically; prosternal process with dense, white, pubescence. Ventrites with uniform, short, white, sparse pubescence, denser on laterosternites; apex of last ventrite truncate with long apical setae. Metatarsus shorter than metatibia; basal metatarsomere shorter than following metatarsomeres together. Aedeagus (Fig. 4). <b>Description of paratypes.</b> Sexual dimorphism occurs in the color of vertex and frons, which is black in males and dark copper in females. <b>Size.</b> Length 2.60–3.60 mm (holotype 3.00 mm); width 0.75–1.15 mm (holotype 0.85 mm). <b>Differential diagnosis.</b> This new species is very similar to <i>Agrilus</i> (<i>Agrilus</i>) <i>kinuthiae</i>, sp. n., from which is differs by the blackish tinged body, black vertex and frons of males and very different shape of the aedeagus (Fig. 4 and Fig. 6). <b>Etymology.</b> The name was chosen to honor the Bulgarian entomologist, the late Dr. Vassil Guéorguiev, for his great body of works on different families of Coleoptera. <b>Remarks.</b> Most of the specimens were collected from yellow sticky traps placed on branches of <i>Acacia</i> sp.
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 3-4, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.24.191, http://zenodo.org/record/576548