Cardiaspis mouhotii E. Saunders, 1866

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

Cardiaspis mouhotii E. Saunders, 1866

Cardiaspis mouhotii E. Saunders, 1866: 307. Saunders 1866

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: E260F3C5-F7F6-535D-9943-9AE276D4B0CF; Location: country: China; stateProvince: Yunnan; locationRemarks: label: Yunnan, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture , Jinghong City , Mengyang Town , 01.09.2020, Zhong-Xiong Fu Leg.; Identification : identifiedBy: Hai-Tian Song ; dateIdentified: 2020; Event : habitat: Rain Forest ; Record Level : institutionCode: CHTS; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 6AE549FC-CB79-5AE7-9C7B-ABD423870CA9; Location : country: China ; stateProvince: Yunnan; verbatimElevation: 800 m; locationRemarks: label: Yunnan, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture , Mengla County, Wangtianshu Scenic Region , 12.07.2022, Pei-Lin Xue Leg.; Identification : identifiedBy: Zhi-Hao Qi ; dateIdentified: 2022; Event : habitat: Rain Forest ; Record Level : institutionCode: CHTS; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 84639BEB-AE46-5BC9-A462-22E2F2CD692F; Location: country: China ; stateProvince: Yunnan; verbatimElevation: 1456 m; locationRemarks: label: Yunnan, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture , Jinghong City , Jinuoshan , 24.07.2022 Hai-Tian Song Leg.; verbatimCoordinates: 22°03'N, 100°40'E; Identification : identifiedBy: Hai-Tian Song ; dateIdentified: 2022; Event : samplingProtocol: flight intercept trap; habitat: Rain Forest ; Record Level : institutionCode: CHTS; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 0EB2C03C-5533-5D45-B6AA-C81FAF3DAB0F; Location: country: China ; stateProvince: Yunnan; verbatimElevation: 1024 m; locationRemarks: label: Yunnan, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture , Jinghong City , Jinuoshan , 14.09.2022, Hai-Tian Song Leg.; verbatimCoordinates: 22°05'N, 101°00'E; Identification : identifiedBy: Hai-Tian Song ; dateIdentified: 2022; Event : samplingProtocol: flight intercept trap; habitat: Rain Forest ; Record Level : institutionCode: CHTS; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: unknowm; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 7488BAAD-FD1D-5382-B9F1-413451F67C2B; Location: country: China ; stateProvince: Yunnan; locationRemarks: label: Yunnan, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture , Jinghong City , Xiaomengyang , 30.05.1981, Da-Zhi Dong Leg.; Identification : identifiedBy: Hai-Tian Song ; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : habitat: Rain Forest ; Record Level : institutionCode: KIZ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

China (Yunnan) (new country record); Bhutan; India; Laos; Malaysia; Vietnam; Thailand ( Akiyama and Ohmomo 2000, Bellamy 2008a, Ek-Amnuay 2008, Kubáň 2016).

Notes

The body surface of the living adult with a yellow wax layer formed by powdery substance (Fig. 7 ).

Description:

Female (Fig. 8 ): Body (n = 4) length: 23.9-29.8 mm, width: 8.9-11.4 mm, length/width ratio: 2.60-2.68. Body monochromatic metallic green with some metallic yellow, shiny; head and pronotum, densely and larger punctate, elytra very small punctate. Head small, frons with two longitudinal carinae along the eyes. Pronotum transverse, subtrapezoidal with lateral depressions moderate; anterior margin almost straight, lateral margins protruding outwards widely, posterior margin bisinuate, widest at base. Scutellum heart-shaped. Each elytron with eleven convex costae; lateral margins of elytra smooth, non-serrated, apices of elytra enlarged with three obvious spines at apex of each elytron. Protibia short, slightly incurved, outer margin with weak serrations, apex without distinct protrusion, inner margin at apex densely setose. Anterior margin of ventrite V protrusion at middle.

Male: not examined.

Figures

Figure 7. A living individual of Cardiaspis mouhotii E. Saunders, 1866 from Mengla, Yunnan Province; the photo taken by Yi-Wei Wang in Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of Chinese Academy of Sciences on 13 August 2023.

Figure 8. Cardiaspis mouhotii E. Saunders, 1866, female, from Mengla, Yunnan: a dorsal view; b ventral view. Scale bar = 10.0 mm.