Chrysochroa (Pyranthe) fulgens ephippigera White, 1843

Ai, Hong-Mu, Qi, Zhi-Hao, Su, Rong-Xiang, Liao, Zhi-Yu & Song, Hai-Tian, 2024, New records of Chrysochroinae Laporte de Castelnau, 1835 (Coleoptera, Buprestidae) from China, Biodiversity Data Journal 12, pp. 115599-115599 : 115599

Chrysochroa (Pyranthe) fulgens ephippigera White, 1843

Chrysochroa ocellata var. ephippigera White, 1843: 343. White 1843

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 6DC302D9-D8C1-5126-BE64-784C1F5E6CFE; Location : country: China; stateProvince: Yunnan; verbatimElevation: 1006 m; locationRemarks: label: Yunnan, Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture , Yingjiang County, Nabang Town , Rongshuwang, 06.2020, local collector Leg.; verbatimCoordinates: 24°39'N 97°36'E; Identification: identifiedBy: Hai-Tian Song; dateIdentified: 2020; Event: habitat: Forest; Record Level: institutionCode: CHTS; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: unknown; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: E0D1BB9C-6D12-540D-AEC9-E7E325BB27BA; Location : country: China; stateProvince: Yunnan; locationRemarks: label: Yunnan, Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture , Yingjiang County, Xima Town , 12.2020, local collector Leg.; Identification: identifiedBy: Hai-Tian Song; dateIdentified: 2021; Event: habitat: Forest; Record Level: institutionCode: CHTS; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 3C25E79A-CC5A-59DD-99C1-EA6B9E103530; Location : country: China; stateProvince: Yunnan; locationRemarks: label: Yunnan, Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture , Yingjiang County, Xima Town , 08.2021, local collector Leg.; Identification: identifiedBy: Hai-Tian Song; dateIdentified: 2021; Event: habitat: Forest; Record Level: institutionCode: CHTS; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 2; sex: 2 females; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 7D7B7DB4-972A-5BB3-AB41-8901AA1C7782; Location : country: China; stateProvince: Yunnan; locationRemarks: label: Yunnan, Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture , Yingjiang County, Xima Town , 10.12022, local collector Leg.; Identification: identifiedBy: Hai-Tian Song; dateIdentified: 2023; Event: habitat: Forest; Record Level: institutionCode: CHTS; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Host of

Cratoxylon sp. (quote from Ek-Amnuay (2008)).

Distribution

China (Yunnan) (new country record); Myanmar; Laos; Vietnam; India; Thailand ( Akiyama and Ohmomo 2000, Ek-Amnuay 2008, Hołyński 2009).

Notes

All individuals found in China with tibiae and femora metallic purple-red.

Description:

Male (Fig. 3 ): Body (n = 1) length: 37.4 mm, width: 13.0 mm, length/width ratio: 2.88. Body polychromatic and shiny; head, pronotum and elytra densely punctate. Head tricoloured, metallic green or blue, tinted with coppery-red at middle of frons. Pronotum five-coloured, metallic purple-red at sides with a broad longitudinal dark blue stripe at median, with transition areas of metallic blue, green and orange between the two colours; narrow in front and broader behind, widest at base. Scutellum absent. Elytra five-coloured, the basal and apical parts tinted with two large metallic purple-red spots on each elytron, with a narrow metallic orange ring around each spot on the periphery, followed by a wide metallic light blue ring around; a broad creamy-yellow patch across the middle, with two narrow dark blue bands in front and behind the creamy-yellow patch; lateral margins of elytra smooth, non-serrated, with one small spine at apex of each elytron, widest at nearly half of elytra. All tibiae and femora metallic purple-red; outer margin at apex of protibia with nearly triangular protrusion. Abdominal sternum and ventrites metallic yellow-orange to purple, with dense setae, ventrite V triangularly excavated at tip.

Female (Fig. 3 ): Body (n = 3) length: 39.4-41.6 mm, width: 13.2-14.0 mm, length/width ratio: 2.85-3.08. The female specimen differs from the male in the colour spots. Setae on the ventral side of body more sparse. Ventrite V without triangular excavation at tip. Other morphological descriptions refer to male specimens.

Figures

Figure 3. Chrysochroa (Pyranthe) ephippigera (White, 1843) from Yingjiang, Yunnan: a male dorsal view; b male ventral view; c female dorsal view; d female ventral view. Scale bar = 10.0 mm.