Chrysodema (Pseudochrysodema), Saunders, 1874

Frank, David & Sekerka, Lukáš, 2020, Studies on the genus Chrysodema (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Chrysochroinae) part I., Zootaxa 4720 (1), pp. 1-62 : 49

subgenus Pseudochrysodema Saunders, 1874

Pseudo-chrysodema Saunders (1874b): 223 (original description); Kerremans (1885): 124 (catalogue, as synonym of Chalcophora ); Waterhouse (1892): 411 (noted); Kerremans (1892): 40 (catalogue); Kerremans (1893): 105 (key to genera); Kerremans (1903): 73 (catalogue, as synonym of Chrysodema ); Heyne & Taschenberg (1908): 132 (noted, in synonymy of Chrysodema ); Carter (1929): 300 (catalogue, in synonymy of Chrysodema ); Kurosawa (1982): 190 (listed in synonymy of Chrysodema ).

Chrysodema (Pseudochrysodema) : Kerremans (1909): 504 (key to subgenera), 505–508 (key of species, monograph); Obenberger (1926): 130 (catalogue); Hołyński (1994): 69 –71 (key to subgenera); Bellamy (1985): 415 (catalogue); Bellamy (2002b): 185 (catalogue); Bellamy (2003): 35 (catalogue); Lander (2003): 9 (noted); Bellamy (2008): 526 (catalogue); Hołyński (2014): 373 (key to subgenera); Frank & Sekerka (2016): 672 (noted).

Chrysodema (Leganya) Hołyński (1994) : 71 (original description); Bellamy (2003): 35 (catalogue); Lander (2003): 9 (noted); Bellamy (2008): 526 (catalogue); Hołyński (2014): 373 (key to subgenera). syn. nov.

Chrysodema (Marcsikiella) Hołyński (2014) : 374 (original description); Kubáň (2016): 460 (catalogue). syn. nov.

Remarks. Lander (2003: 21) synonymized ten nominal taxa with C. (P.) radians in addition to another twelwe already considered synonyms of that species by previous authors. Chrysodema (P.) radians was described from Port Praslin in the Bismarck Archipelago. The depository of the type specimen of C. radians is unknown, however, we have examined large material from entire area and observed considerable morphological differences among individual taxa and therefore it seems to us that the very broad concept of C. (P.) radians is not sustainable. Neverteless, this species-group requires complex revision which we already started but we were unable to assemble all necessary types yet. Here we treat only the dark coloured taxa, C. (P.) coelestina and C. (P.) instabilis , for the purpose of description of a new species, C. (P.) jakli sp. nov.