Eucorydia forceps (Hanitsch, 1915)

Qiu, Lu, Che, Yan-Li & Wang, Zong-Qing, 2017, Revision of Eucorydia Hebard, 1929 from China, with notes on the genus and species worldwide (Blattodea, Corydioidea, Corydiidae), ZooKeys 709, pp. 17-56 : 40

Eucorydia forceps (Hanitsch, 1915) Fig. 11 H–K

Corydia forceps Hanitsch, 1915: 125 (male holotype, "Bukit Kutu, Selangor, 3000m"), Plate 7, fig. 41; Hanitsch 1923: 466.

Eucorydia forceps : Hebard 1929: 14; Bruijning 1948: 149 (1 male, "Aur Kumanis, Sumatra", 1 female, “Belang”, all in Leiden Museum); Princis 1963: 83.

Type material examined.

HOLOTYPE of Corydia forceps , ♂ (OUM, TYPE ORTH 280), MALAYSIA: two identical labels: "April 1915. SELANGOR, F. M. S., 3457 ft, 35 m N. N. E. of Kuala Lumpur, Bukit Kutu. R. Hanitsch.", "Bukit Kutu/ Selangor/ April 1915/ 3457", one number label: “21”, four determination labels: "TYPE./ Corydia forceps , Hanitsch./ J. Straits Br., B, as.S., No.69, p.125, pl.vii.41.", "Corydia forceps, Han.", "TYPE ORTH: 280/ Corydia forceps Hanitsch/ HOPE DEPT. OXFORD", "Eucorydia forceps Princis, 1963".

Diagnosis.

Male: Total length about 15 mm, body metallic blue, legs and abdomen metallic blue. Tegmina with two small yellow spots laterally. Tegmina covered with white pubescence, the arrangement as in Fig. 11K. Lateral portions of abdomen orangish emarginated.

This species resembles E. aenea , but with legs and abdomen metallic blue, and the yellow spots on tegmina are small.

Distribution.

Malaysia: Kuala Lumpur.