Agra schwarzeneggeri Erwin
- Dataset
- The Beetle Family Carabidae of Costa Rica: Twentynine new species of Agra Fabricius 1801 (Coleoptera: Carabidae, Lebiini, Agrina)
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Erwin, Terry L. (2002): The Beetle Family Carabidae of Costa Rica: Twentynine new species of Agra Fabricius 1801 (Coleoptera: Carabidae, Lebiini, Agrina). Zootaxa 119: 1-68, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.162803
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Carabidae
- genus
- Agra
- species
- Agra schwarzeneggeri
description
Description. Color and luster: Black. Elytra with brassy green reflections. Antennomeres 3 4 testaceous, infuscated apically, 5 11 testaceous. Form: Head (Fig. 20 a) short behind eyes, that of male tapered and rounded behind, that of female quadrate, vertex dimpled. Prothorax widest at middle, markedly tapered anteriorly in male, somewhat " swollen " at middle in female. Middle leg with markedly enlarged femur (Fig. 20 d). Elytra broad, not very convex, apex (Fig. 20 b) medially dentate, interneurs 2,4,6,8 with very large setigerous foveae, interneurs of fine closespaced punctures. Sternum VI (Fig. 20 c) with deeply circular emargination in female, deeply vnotched in female. Aedeagus (see Notes). Size: medium, 14.0 to 17.0 mm in length, 4.6 to 5.16 mm in width.
description
Notes. The genitalia of the dissected male is missing from the vial pinned beneath the specimen, thus has not been illustrated. The aedeagus of Agra perrinae (Straneo 1982) has a moderately long ostium, apex of phallus a simple diamondshaped lobe which is markedly arched dorsally, parameres glabrous.
diagnosis
Diagnosis. The male of this species has an enormously enlarged middle femur (Fig. 19 c); females have elytra with brassygreen tint, black forebody and rufous antennomeres 3 11.
materials_examined
Holotype. Male, COSTA RICA: Cartago, Turrialba, 650 m, 9 º 53 ' N 83 º 38 ' W, February, (H. & A. Howden) (USNM: ADP 64794).
materials_examined
Other specimens examined. Costa Rica: 3 paratypes, females, from the Cordillera Volcánica Central Conservation Area. Costa Rica, 1 f, Cartago, Pavones 83 ° 37 ' W 9 ° 57 ' N, May, (F. T. Hovore) (FTHC: ADP 70530), 1 f, Turrialba, 3.0 km SEIICA / CATIE, 83 ° 38 ' W 9 ° 53 ' N, April, (E. Giesbert) (FSCA: ADP 4420), 1 f, August, (D. R. Whitehead) (USNM: ADP 61717), 1 m, February, (H. F. Howden & A. Howden) (UASM: ADP 54794). Specific epithet. The specific epithet, schwarzeneggeri is the Latinized genitive form of the family name of the actor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, in reference to the markedly developed (bicepslike) middle femora of the males of this species reminiscent of the actor’s physic.
Name
- Homonyms
- Agra schwarzeneggeri Erwin