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Issue: Vol. 1617 No. 1: 17 Oct. 2007
Type: Article
Published: 2007-10-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1617.1.3
Page range: 57–66
Abstract views: 39
PDF downloaded: 5

The identity of Agrilus impexus Horn, a new species, and taxonomic notes and records for other Agrilus Curtis species (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Box 951606, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1606
Coleoptera Identity Agrilus impexus

Abstract

The name Agrilus impexus Horn has been found to belong to a Great Plains species and to be misapplied to a common southwestern Agrilus. Agrilus impexus is redescribed and A. paraimpexus, new species, is described from New Mexico, Arizona and California to Costa Rica. It is distinguished from both Agrilus impexus and the closely related A. addendus Crotch from Texas to Vera Cruz, México, and a lectotype is designated for A. addendus. Agrilus frisoni Fisher is synonymized with A. addendus, new synonymy. Agrilus funestus Chevrolat is recorded from the United States for the first time and figured.

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