Agra aurifera

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Agra aurifera
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Carabidae
Genus: Agra
Species:
A. aurifera
Binomial name
Agra aurifera
Liebke, 1940

Agra aurifera is a species of carabid beetle. The holotype was collected in Costa Rica and first described to science in 1940 by Max Liebke. [1]

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References

  1. Erwin, T. L. (2002). "The Beetle Family Carabidae of Costa Rica: Twenty-nine new species of Agra Fabricius 1801 (Coleoptera: Carabidae, Lebiini, Agrina)" (PDF). Zootaxa . 119: 1–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.119.1.1.