Xanthocata bonvouloirii (Deyrolle, 1861)

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

Xanthocata bonvouloirii (Deyrolle, 1861)

Catoxantha bonvouloirii Deyrolle, 1861: 395. Deyrolle 1861

Catoxantha regina = Catoxantha regina Schaufuss, 1863: 168. Schaufuss 1863

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 731ECCD6-862C-5689-BA43-A680BF1C8741; Location : country: China; stateProvince: Yunnan; verbatimElevation: 1000 m; locationRemarks: label: Yunnan, Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture , Yingjiang County, Xima Town , 10.2020, local collector Leg.; Identification: identifiedBy: Hai-Tian Song; dateIdentified: 2022; Event: habitat: Forest; Record Level: institutionCode: CHTS; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 3; sex: 1 male, 2 females; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 2DF2B98C-7C36-56D0-AF8A-1E5847989F71; Location : country: China; stateProvince: Yunnan; verbatimElevation: 760 m; locationRemarks: label: Yunnan, Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture , Yingjiang County, Nongzhang Town , 08.04.2023, local collector Leg.; Identification: identifiedBy: Hai-Tian Song; dateIdentified: 2023; Event: habitat: Forest; Record Level: institutionCode: CHTS; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

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

Notes

The living individual is shown in Fig. 5 .

Description:

Male (Fig. 6 ): Body (n = 1) length: 51.1-51.5 mm, width: 18.2-19.1 mm, length/width ratio: 2.67-2.83. Body trichromatic and moderately shiny; head, pronotum and elytra densely punctate. Head tricoloured, metallic green to violet, frons with an obviously longitudinal depression along the middle. Pronotum transverse, subtrapezoidal; bicoloured, metallic orange-red with two dark purple longitudinal stripes on both sides of middle line; lateral margins protruding strongly at half of the base, widest behind the middle. Scutellum absent. Elytra bicoloured, dark violet to black with two large, transverse, white stripes behind the middle; widest at nearly half of elytra, each elytron with eight convex costae; lateral margins of elytra smooth, non-serrated, apices of elytra nearly truncate with two small spines at apex of each elytron. All tibiae and femora metallic green to dark purple; outer margin at apex of protibia with nearly triangular protrusion, inner margin at apex densely setose. Ventrites yellow, non-metallic lustre, each ventrite with two large black spots at both sides of the base, ventrite V triangularly excavated at tip. The characters of the male genitalia are shown in Fig. 6 .

Female (Fig. 6 ): Body (n = 1) length: 51.6 mm, width: 19.1 mm, length/width ratio: 2.70. Ventrite V without triangular excavation at tip. Other morphological descriptions refer to male specimens.

Figures

Figure 5. A male living individual of Xanthocata bonvouloirii (Deyrolle, 1861) from Yingjiang, Yunnan Province: a dorsal view; b ventral view.

Figure 6. Xanthocata bonvouloirii (Deyrolle, 1861) from Yingjiang, Yunnan Province: a male dorsal view; b male ventral view; c dorsal view of aedeagus; d female dorsal view; e female ventral view. Scale bars: a, b, d, e = 10.0 mm; c = 1.0 mm.