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Issue: Vol. 4216 No. 1: 4 Jan. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-01-03
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4216.1.4
Page range: 65–72
Abstract views: 61
PDF downloaded: 4

A study of the genus Agrilaxia Kerremans, 1903 from French Guiana (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Anthaxiini)

Czech University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Department of Game Management and Wildlife Biology, Kamýcká 1176, Praha 6-Suchdol, 165 21 Czech Republic.
Coleoptera Taxonomy Buprestidae Anthaxiini Agrilaxia French Guiana

Abstract

Description of four new species of the genus Agrilaxia Kerremans, 1903 from French Guiana: Agrilaxia (Agrilaxia) angustiptera sp. nov., A. (A.) antennata sp. nov., A. (A.) nigra sp. nov. and A. (A.) nigropurpurea sp. nov. New distributional data are given for Agrilaxia (A.) chrysifrons (Kerremans, 1896) and the previously unknown male genitalia of this species is illustrated.

 

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