Eucorydia westwoodi (Gerstaecker, 1861)

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 : 43

Eucorydia westwoodi (Gerstaecker, 1861)

Corydia westwoodi Gerstaecker, 1861: 114 (female holotype, Assam); Brunner von Wattenwyl 1865: 339 (French translation of the original description); Walker 1869: 126; Kirby 1904: 167; Hanitsch 1927: 41.

Eucorydia westwoodi : Hebard 1929: 96 (designed it as type species of Eucorydia ); Hanitsch 1932: 80 (synonymized E. maxwelli under E. westwoodi ); Bruijning 1948: 149; Princis 1963: 83.

Eucorydia plagiata : Asahina 1971: 259 (2 males, eastern Nepal, misidentification).

Material examined.

None.

Diagnosis.

Combining the original description ( Gerstaecker 1861) and the French description (translated from the original description) (Brunner von Wattenwyl 1865), this species is characterized as follows: female length 13.0 mm; antennae black; pronotum dull blue, margins with long black hair; tegmina orange, each tegmen with a blackish blue strip originates from the anterior margin, extends from the base to the middle and curved inwardly, ends bulbously, an oval spot of the same color is situated at the sutural margin of the tegmina and ends in front of the middle, one third of the apical portion of the tegmina brownish black.

This species resembles E. ornata by its tegmina marking pattern, but differs from the latter by the pronotum, the former with pronotum unicolored, while the latter has two yellow elongate spots on the pronotum laterally.

Remarks.

This species was reported from Assam by one single female (Gerstaecker, 1861). Hebard (1929) established the genus Eucorydia and designated this species as the type species. Asahina (1971) recorded two males of E. plagiata from Nepal (one from "East Nepal", the other from "Dharan, at Grkha camp"); from the description, we consider them as E. westwoodi because their pronotum lacks yellow spots. In addition to the examples Asahina examined, he also mentioned one specimen without yellow spots from Darjeeling.

Distribution.

India: Assam (type locality), Darjeeling ( Asahina 1971); Nepal ( Asahina 1971).