Agrilus ateles Jendek 2017, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Jendek, Eduard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Agrilus
Agrilus ateles

description: Agrilus ateles sp. nov.
(Fig. 1B)
Description of holotype. Size: 3.9 mm. Body. Shape: cuneiform; Build: robust; Profile: convex; Color (dorsally): unicolored. Head. Size: very large; Medial impression: shallow. Frons: Outline: markedly protruding head outline. Vertex: Outline: markedly protruding head outline; Sculpture elements: rugae; Sculpture aspect: arcuate; Sculpture density: dense; Sculpture intensity: superficial. Eyes: Size: subequal to half width of vertex (dorsal view); Lower margin: in line or below antennal socket; Median orbit: converging ventrally. Antennae: Serration: from antennomere 4. Pronotum. Shape: visually transverse; Sides: sinuate before posterior angles, straight; Maximal width: at posterior margin; Anterior margin: narrower than posterior. Anterior lobe: Development: obvious; Shape: arcuate; Width: broad; Position: at level with anterior angles. Posterior angles: Shape: acute; Apex: sharp. Disk: Convexity: strongly convex; Impressions: lateral only; Lateral impressions (depth): shallow; Lateral impression (width): broad. Prehumerus: Development: carinal; Shape: arcuate; Extent: beyond 1/2 of pronotal length; Anterior end: distant from lateral carina; Posterior end: joined with posterior angle or margin; Arc: moderate. Lateral carinae: Convergence: moderate; Junction: present; Narrowest point: at posterior 1/5–1/4 of marginal carina. Scutellum: Size: robust. Elytra. Color: unicolored; Humeral carina: absent. Apices: Arrangement: conjoint; Shape: arcuate. Pubescence: Color: unicolored; Extent: proximal and distal; Proximal (shape): quadrangular; Distal (shape): preapical. Sternum. Prosternal lobe: Distal margin: arcuately emarginate; Emargination (width): wide. Prosternal process: Shape: subparallel; Sides: straight; Angles: obtuse; Angles (tips): blunt; Disc: flat; Projection (length): protruding distinctly beyond angles. Metasternum: Metasternal projection: flat. Abdomen. Basal ventrite: Modifications: with transverse protrusion. Pygidium: Apical margin: arcuate. Sternal groove: Extent: on apical ventrite; Shape on apex of last ventrite: arcuately sinuate; Sinuosity (delimitation): angulate; Sinuosity (depth): markedly deep; Sinuosity (width): markedly wide. Legs. Metatarsus: Length to metatibia: distinctly shorter. Tarsomere 1: Length to following tarsomeres: shorter or subequal to 2–3.
Variability. Unknown. Sexual dimorphism. The male has obvious transverse protrusion on basal ventrite, similarly like A. incrassatus sp. nov. and A. traymanyi (Tab. 1). The female is unknown.
Diagnosis. Agrilus ateles sp. nov. differs from similar species by obviously transverse pronotum with maximal width at posterior margin and by lacking cluster of long setae on apex of metatibiae.
vogti
Baudon traymanyi
thailandicus
suturistriatus
sphenopterus
Villiers & Descarpentries richardae
Descarpentries pilosotibialis
oidema
Obenberger microtatus
korbicola
incrassatus
Kerremans humilis
ecalcaratus
duffelsorum antennomeres 4̅11 obviously dilated? Jendek dilatometatibialis prehumerus absent x
metatibaiae obviously dilated x chloros
apex of metatibaiae with cluster of setae? x x x x x x
bicoloripennis
basal ventrite with transverse protrusion x? x Obenberger atratulus last ventrite with obvious impression x x
ateles proximal part of aedeagus obviously expanded?? x x? x aruensis
Type material. Type locality: Malaysia, Sabah, Mt. Kinabalu NP [06°08'00”N, 116°39'00”E]. Type specimens. Holotype ♂ (FWPC): “ Malaysia, Sabah, Mt. Kinabalu NP, 6,7. ix.1990, CL Bellamy ”.
Distribution. Malaysia (Sabah).
Etymology. The specific name is derived from the Greek ateles (incomplete or imperfect development). It refers to the lack of aedeagus of the holotype.
Remarks. Known only from the holotype. The aedeagus of holotype was lost most probably when the specimen was mounted.
description: Published as part of Jendek, Eduard, 2017, Revision of the Agrilus humilis species-group (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilini) with description of thirteen new species from Southeastern Asia, pp. 249-271 in Zootaxa 4363 (2) on pages 252-256, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4363.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/1098740