Chrysochroa (Chroodema) corbetti (Kerremans, 1893)

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 (Chroodema) corbetti (Kerremans, 1893)

Demochroa corbetti Kerremans, 1893: 326. Kerremans 1893

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: B2DA381F-62CC-5534-8554-9813F326C55E; Location: country: China; stateProvince: Hainan; verbatimElevation: 350 m; locationRemarks: label: Hainan, Sanya City , Mt. Lizhiling , 28.06.2020, Jia-Sheng Lu Leg.; verbatimCoordinates: 18°21'N 109°27'E; Identification : identifiedBy: Hai-Tian Song ; dateIdentified: 2020; Event : samplingProtocol: sweep net; habitat: Rain Forest ; Record Level : institutionCode: CHTS; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 9B6935EC-B048-5FC0-A52E-02E8BB48EB79; Location: country: China ; stateProvince: Hainan; verbatimElevation: 390 m; locationRemarks: label: Hainan, Sanya City , Mt. Lizhiling , 15.06.2021, Jia-Sheng Lu Leg.; verbatimCoordinates: 18°21'N 109°27'E; Identification : identifiedBy: Hai-Tian Song ; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: sweep net; habitat: Rain Forest ; Record Level : institutionCode: CHTS; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 2; sex: 2 males; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 45F3671A-6C00- 5AD 6-93CB-EEB86190EA3D; Location: country: China ; stateProvince: Hainan; verbatimElevation: 390 m; locationRemarks: label: Hainan, Sanya City , Mt. Lizhiling , 19.06.2021, Hai-Tian Song & Zhi-Hao Qi Leg.; verbatimCoordinates: 18°21'N 109°27'E; Identification: identifiedBy: Hai-Tian Song; dateIdentified: 2021; Event: samplingProtocol: high sweep net; habitat: Rain Forest ; Record Level: institutionCode: CHTS; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: A1130627-711B-5D53-83E7-3C5504167273; Location: country: China ; stateProvince: Hainan; verbatimElevation: 390 m; locationRemarks: label: Hainan, Sanya City , Mt. Lizhiling , 06.2023, Jia-Sheng Lu Leg.; verbatimCoordinates: 18°21'N 109°27'E; Identification : identifiedBy: Hai-Tian Song ; dateIdentified: 2023; Event : samplingProtocol: sweep net; habitat: Rain Forest ; Record Level : institutionCode: CHTS; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: unknown; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 01D43CAA-C80D-561D-807B-BFF69BF348D9; Location : country: China ; stateProvince: Hainan; locationRemarks: label: Hainan, Ledong County, Jianfengling National Forest Park , Tianchi , 02.05.2022, local collector Leg.; Identification: identifiedBy: Hai-Tian Song; dateIdentified: 2022; Event: habitat: Rain Forest ; Record Level: institutionCode: CHTS; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Host of

Pterospermum acerifolium (quote from Ek-Amnuay (2008)), P. heterophyllum (Fig. 1 , new host plant found in Hainan).

Distribution

China (Hainan) (new country record); Myanmar; Vietnam; Thailand ( Akiyama and Ohmomo 2000, Bellamy 2008a, Ek-Amnuay 2008).

Notes

The adult has been found in Sanya, Hainan Province with Catoxantha brunnea hainana (Kurosawa, 1991) feeding together on Pterospermum heterophyllum leaves.

Description:

Male (Fig. 2 ): Body (n = 4) length: 33.3-36.8 mm, width: 12.1-13.5 mm, length/width ratio: 2.60-2.94. Body polychromatic; head, pronotum and base of elytra densely punctate. Head bicoloured, frons and both sides of posterior margin metallic purple, other areas metallic blue; antenna black with 11 antennomeres, antennomeres V-XI expanded. Pronotum tricoloured, metallic purple-red at sides, with a broad metallic green or blue stripe at median, more than half of pronotum; narrow in front and broader behind, widest at basal third. Scutellum absent. Elytra four-coloured, bearing two large blue to black bands at the front half and behind half of each elytron, their borders reaching the suture and the lateral margins, with metallic yellow-orange bands and metallic-greenish suffusion at base and apex and a broad creamy-yellow band at middle; lateral margins of elytra smooth, non-serrated, with one small spine at the apex of each elytron, widest at nearly half of elytra. All tibiae and femora metallic blue to purple-red; outer margin at apex of protibia with nearly triangular protrusion. Abdominal sternum and ventrites metallic blue to purple, ventrite V triangularly excavated at tip. The characters of the male genitalia are shown in Fig. 2 .

Female: not examined.

Figures

Figure 1. Male living individuals of Chrysochroa (Chroodema) corbetti (Kerremans, 1893) from Sanya, Hainan: a an individual flying around the host plant Pterospermum acerifolium; b dorsal view; c lateral view of feeding P. acerifolium leaves.

Figure 2. Chrysochroa (Chroodema) corbetti (Kerremans, 1893), male, from Sanya, Hainan Province: a dorsal view of habitus; b ventral view of habitus; c dorsal view of aedeagus. Scale bars: a, b = 10.0 mm; c = 1.0 mm.