Agra biolat, Erwin, 2000

Erwin, Terry L., 2000, Arboreal Beetles Of Neotropical Forests: Agra Fabricius, A Taxonomic Supplement For The Platyscelis Group With New Species And Distribution Records (Coleoptera: Carabidae, Lebiini, Agrina), The Coleopterists Bulletin 54 (1), pp. 90-119 : 104

004. Agra biolat , new species

( Figs. 2a, 5a, 7a, 9)

Diagnosis. Elytra bright coppery green. Mentum with median tooth short and markedly bifid, length ⅓ that of lateral lobe. Tarsomere 5 of posterior leg long and inserted into markedly emarginate tarsomere 4. Elytron with sutural apex minutely acuminate (5a).

Description. (See Table 1): Size: ABL = 20.00 mm; SBL = 19.24 mm; TW = 5.32 mm; LH = 3.93 mm; LP = 4.01 mm; LE = 11.30 mm.

Geographical Distribution ( Fig. 9). Known only from the type locality on the Rio Tambopata watershed of eastern Perú. There, it is sympatric with the closely related A. klugii Brullé (see below) .

Specimens Examined. Holotype male, PERÚ, Madre de Dios, 30 air km SW Puerto Maldonado, Rio Tambopata Res. , 12 ° 50 ̍ S, 69 ° 20 ̍ W, MUSM, T. L. Erwin et al., Nov­11­1983 * ADP 93789.

Etymology. Named for the 1980’s Smithsonian Institution Program, Biodiversity in Latin America, which had its roots in methods and ideas developed at Explorer’s Inn, the type locality for this species.