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Published: 2017-12-19
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Revision of the Agrilus wittemani species–group (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilini) with description of three new species from India and Myanmar

Department of Forest Protection and Entomology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, Kamýcká 1176, CZ–165 21, Prague 6–Suchdol, Czech Republic.
Department of Forest Protection and Entomology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, Kamýcká 1176, CZ–165 21, Prague 6–Suchdol, Czech Republic.
Coleoptera taxonomy new species Oriental region

Abstract

The newly defined Agrilus wittemani species–group comprising six species from South and Southeast Asia is revised based on the examination of type specimens. A key to species is provided and complemented with illustrations of habitus and genitalia. The following three new species are described: Agrilus amplinotus sp. nov.; A. stigmula sp. nov.; A. stigmulifer sp. nov.

 

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