Agrilus (Agrilus) cteniasiformis 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 cteniasiformis

description: <i>Agrilus</i> (<i>Agrilus</i>) <i>cteniasiformis</i> <i>,</i> sp. n. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 448ACE0B-67D5-4A04-A02E-4258B105DE5D Figs 1, 2 <b>Type specimens.</b> Holotype ♁: “C Kenya, Simba (02°08´S – 37°34´E), 1050 m, 31.10.2005, G. Curletti &amp; V. Sakalian leg.”. Paratypes: 1 ♁ and 1 &amp;female; with same locality and date as holotype. Th e holotype is deposited in IZBAS and the paratypes in GCCI. <b>Description of holotype.</b> Body slender, subparallel, bronze colored dorsally; ventral side metallic black, frons dark green, elytra with very sparse and short white pubescence. Head with medial sulcus and longitudinal striae on vertex and upper portion of frons; width of vertex between eyes 0.37 mm; frons protruding at upper portion; medial and lower portions of frons dark green, rugose; lower portion of frons, clypeus and genae with short, dense, white pubescence; eyes feebly convex; antennae short, barely reaching upper portion of eyes; antennomeres 4–11 wider than long, triangular. Pronotum widest at anterior third; anterior margin bisinuate, carinate; anterior pronotal lobe distinct; lateral margins slightly curved before latero-posterior angles; latero-posterior angles rectangular; prehumeral pronotal carinae arched, extending from latero-posterior angles to just before lateral margin at middle of pronotum; marginal and submarginal carinae subparallel, not coalescent; discal sculpture consisting of very distinct transverse striae. Scutellum small, anterior margin rounded; transverse carina present; apical projection short. Elytra subparallel, width across humeri almost as wide as pronotal base; elytra widest at posterior third; humeral depressions deep and wide; apices narrowly separately arcuate, serrated; elytra with short, uniform, white pubescence; discal elytral sculpture consisting of transverse wrinkles. <b>Figure |.</b> <i>Agrilus</i> (<i>Agrilus</i>) <i>cteniasiformis</i> <i>,</i> sp. n. (dorsal view). Underside. Prosternal lobe robust, regularly arcuate. Prosternal process narrowed between procoxae, apical projection long and acutely pointed. Ventrites with uniform, short, golden pubescence; apex of last ventrite truncate. Aedeagus (Fig. 2). <b>Description of paratypes.</b> Females differ from males in the rounded and bordered apex of the last ventrite and the bronze-colored frons. <b>Size.</b> Length 3.00– 3.40 mm (holotype 3.30 mm); width 0.85–0.95 mm (holotype 0.90 mm). <b>Differential diagnosis.</b> The new species is closely related to <i>Agrilus</i> (<i>Agrilus</i>) <i>ctenias</i> Théry, 1934 from Mozambique. It differs from this species by its bronze rather than emerald green color and smaller size. <b>Etymology.</b> The specific epithet denotes the similarity of the new species and <i>A. ctenias.</i> <b>Remarks.</b> 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 2-3, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.24.191, http://zenodo.org/record/576548