A study on the genus Agrilaxia of French Guiana (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Anthaxiini)

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657-686

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BÍLÝ, Svatopluk a BRULÉ, Stéphane. A study on the genus Agrilaxia of French Guiana (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Anthaxiini). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae. Prague: National Museum, 2013, 53(2), 657-686. ISSN 0374-1036 (print) 1804-6487 (online). Also available from: https://publikace.nm.cz/en/periodicals/aemnp/53-2/a-study-on-the-genus-agrilaxia-of-french-guiana-coleoptera-buprestidae-anthaxiini

Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae | 2013/53/2

The genus Agrilaxia Kerremans, 1903 of French Guiana is revised and 16 species are recorded. Except for two species formerly described from this territory, two Brasilian species and 12 undescribed species are recorded. Ten of them are described, illustrated and compared with the most similar species: Agrilaxia (Agrilaxia) cacao sp. nov., A. (A.) caudata sp. nov., A. (A.) convexifrons sp. nov., A. (A.) cordicollis sp. nov., A. (A.) elegans sp. nov., A. (A.) glabra sp. nov., A. (A.) guianensis sp. nov., A. (A.) prolonga sp. nov., A. (A.) purpureiventris sp. nov. and A. (A.) sulcifrons sp. nov. The history of the taxonomic status of Agrilaxia is briefly discussed and the morphological characters of the genus are evaluated. Three formal species-groups are suggested and characterised: A. aeruginosa species-group, A. bivittata species-group and A. opima species-group.