Agrilus luzonicola Jendek 2018, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Jendek, Eduard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Agrilus
Agrilus luzonicola

description: Agrilus luzonicola sp. nov.
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Description of holotype. Size: 10.6 mm. BODY. Shape: cuneiform; Build: robust; Color (dorsally): unicolored. HEAD. Size: very large; Medial impression: deep. Frons: Outline: markedly protruding head outline. Vertex: Sculpture elements: rugae; Sculpture aspect: arcuate. Eyes: Size: smaller than half width of vertex (dorsal view); Shape: markedly protruding head outline; Lower margin: in line or below antennal socket; Median orbit: converging ventrally. Antennae: Length: reach to about anterior pronotal angles; Serration: from antennomere 4. PRONOTUM. Shape: visually transverse; Sides: slightly arcuate; Maximal width: at middle; Anterior margin: wider than posterior. Anterior lobe: Development: obvious; Shape: arcuate; Width: broad; Position: projecting beyond anterior angles. Posterior angles: Shape: rectangular; Apex: sharp. Disk: Impressions: medial and lateral; Medial impression: posteromedial only; Lateral impressions (depth): deep; Lateral impressions (width): broad; Lateral impressions (modification): with tomentose patches. Prehumerus: Development: carinal; Shape: bisinuate; Extent: beyond 1/2 of pronotal length; Anterior end: joined with lateral carina; Posterior end: distant from posterior angle or margin; Arc: obvious. Lateral carinae: Convergence: moderate; Junction: absent; Narrowest point: at posterior 1/5–1/4 of marginal carina; Modifications: submarginal carina anteriorly and posteriorly obliterate. Scutellum: Size: robust. ELYTRA. Color: unicolored; Humeral carina: absent. Apices: Arrangement: separate; Shape: spinate; Number of cusps or spines: 1; Position of dominant projection: medial. Pubescence: Pairs of tomentose spots: humeral, medial, apical. STERNUM. Prosternal lobe: Size: large; Position to sternum: markedly declivous; Distal margin: arcuately emarginate; Emargination (depth): deep; Emargination (width): wide. Prosternal process: Width: wide; Shape: subparallel; Sides: straight; Angles: obtuse; Disc: flat. Metasternum: Metasternal projection: flat. ABDOMEN. Tomentum: present. Last ventrite: Disk: with medial carinula. Sternal groove: Extent: on apical ventrite; Shape on apex of last ventrite: arcuate. LEGS. Metatarsus: Length to metatibia: distinctly shorter. Metarsomere 1: Length to following tarsomeres: longer than 2–3 but shorter than 2–4. GENITALIA. Ovipositor: Shape: markedly elongate.
Variability. Unknown. The species is known only from the female holotype.
Diagnosis. Agrilus luzonicola has elytral spots white like those at A. salakot, but tomentose patches in lateral pronotal impresions are yellow and wide (white and narrow at A. salakot). See also key to species.
Type material. Type locality: Philippines, Luzon, Aurora, Sierra Madre Mts. Type specimens. Holotype ♀ (EJCB): “ Philippines, E. Luzon, Sierra Madre, Aurora, v.2008, local collector”.
Distribution. Philippines (Luzon (Aurora province)).
Etymology. The specific name is a combination of Luzon (the island from the type locality) and the Latin verb colo (to dwell, inhabit).
description: Published as part of Jendek, Eduard, 2018, Revision of the Agrilus quadripunctatus species-group (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilini) with description of four new species, pp. 383-391 in Zootaxa 4392 (2) on pages 386-387, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4392.2.10, http://zenodo.org/record/1195316