Agrilus ventripotens Kerremans
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Description
Agrilus ventripotens Kerremans
Figs. 24, 50
ventripotens Kerremans, 1900a: 342 [replacement name for ventralis Kerremans, 1893 not Horn, 1891] Kerremans, 1903: 279 [cited as ventripoteus]. Obenberger, 1936: 1107.
= ventralis Kerremans, 1893 [preoccupied by ventralis Horn, 1891]
Kerremans, 1900a: 342 [synonym of ventripotens]. Kerremans, 1903: 279 [synonym of ventripotens]. Obenberger, 1936: 1107 [synonym of ventripotens].
Diagnosis. This species is very distinctive by the unichromatic, black with violet tinged elytral color combined with a unichromatic whitish mosaic pubescence. Sides of pronotum arcuate, apical margin somewhat narrower than basal margin; anterior pronotal lobe wide but not extending beyond anterior angles; disk conspicuously convex; prehumerus costate, feebly arcuate, extending to about half the pronotal length, with apex distant from margin (lateral view); prosternal lobe distinctly incised (Fig. 50); prosternal process expanded in straight line (Fig. 50), disk flat; apex of last abdominal ventrite markedly emarginate.
Length. 3.9–4.0 mm.
Type series. Agrilus ventralis Kerremans, 1893. Holotype by monotypy: sex not examined, BMNH: “ Type H. T. [p] [round label with red border] \ Kanara Andrewes [h] \ ventralis Type [h] \ A. ventralis Kerrem. Inde [h] \ Kerremans. 1903 –59 [p]”. Type locality. Kanara.
Specimens examined. INDIA: Karnataka: 1 Ƥ (EJCB): “Fraserpet [= Kushalnagar], Coorg., F.R.I. Sandal Insect Survey, 15.III. [19]30”. SRI LANKA: 1 Ƥ (EJCB): “ Sri Lanka: Anu. Dist., Padaviya Antiquities site, 20–23 July 1978 ”.
Distribution. south India: Karnataka; Sri Lanka.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Buprestidae
- Genus
- Agrilus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Kerremans
- Species
- ventripotens
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- Kerremans, C. (1900 a) Buprestides nouveaux et remarques synonymiques. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique, 44, 282 - 351.
- Kerremans, C. (1893) Additions aux Buprestides des Indes Orientales. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique, 37, 326 - 357.
- Horn, G. H. (1891) The species of Agrilus of Boreal America. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 18, 277 - 366, pl. VIII.
- Kerremans, C. (1903) Coleoptera Serricornia. Fam. Buprestidae, Fasc. 12 b, 12 c, 12 d, p. 49 - 338. In: Wytsman, P. (ed), Genera Insectorum. Tome II, Fascicules XII - XIV. Bruxelles, Verteneuil & Desmet.
- Obenberger, J. (1936) Buprestidae V., p. 935 - 1246. In: Junk, W. & Schenkling, S. (eds), Coleopterorum Catalogus, Volumen XIII, Pars 152, s'Gravenhage, Verlag fur Naturwissenschaften, W. Junk, 311 pp.