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Issue: Vol. 4429 No. 1: 5 Jun. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-06-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4429.1.4
Page range: 107–131
Abstract views: 113
PDF downloaded: 8

Twenty new species of Agrilus (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilinae) from the Oriental Region

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.
Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Ottawa Plant Laboratory, 960 Carling Av., Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0Y9, Canada.
Coleoptera Taxonomy new taxa

Abstract

Twenty new Agrilus species from the Oriental Region are described and illustrated: A. aramis sp. nov. (Laos), A. aries sp. nov. (Laos), A. armipes sp. nov. (Laos, India), A. athos sp. nov. (Laos, Thailand), A. bacan sp. nov. (Indonesia), A. bicolorifrons sp. nov. (Laos), A. cuprocunctus sp. nov. (Laos), A. ebenus sp. nov. (Laos, Thailand, Vietnam), A. frontis sp. nov. (Laos), A. gemellus sp. nov. (Nepal), A. khunborom sp. nov. (Laos), A. kyklos sp. nov. (Laos), A. loongfahi sp. nov. (Malaysia), A. metallinus sp. nov. (Laos), A. nemoralis sp. nov. (Laos), A. porthos sp. nov. (Laos), A. princeps sp. nov. (Laos), A. rex sp. nov. (Malaysia), A. sikhiav sp. nov. (Laos) and A. sinuosus sp. nov (Laos, Vietnam).

 

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