Demochroa (Demoxantha) gratiosa indica Csiki, 1900

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

Demochroa (Demoxantha) gratiosa indica Csiki, 1900

Demochroa indica Csiki, 1900: 402. Csiki 1900

Demochroa bowringii = Demochroa bowringii Waterhouse, 1904: 265. Waterhouse 1904

Demochroa meldolana = Demochroa meldolana Waterhouse, 1904: 265. Waterhouse 1904

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: unknown; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: BEDA431B-B565-5F03-806A-5BA1582EC861; Location : country: China; stateProvince: Yunnan; verbatimElevation: 200-400 m; locationRemarks: label: Yunnan, Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture , Yingjiang County, Nabang Town , 03.06.2018, photo by Lu Qiu.; Identification : identifiedBy: Hai-Tian Song ; dateIdentified: 2018; Event : habitat: Forest ; Record Level : basisOfRecord: HumanObservation

Distribution

China (Yunnan) (new country record); Bangladesh; India; Laos; Thailand ( Akiyama and Ohmomo 2000, Ek-Amnuay 2008, Hołyński 2009, Kubáň 2016).

Notes

The purple part is replaced by light green in most specimens of the species. Since the first individual found in China was incomplete, we provisionally classified it as the subspecies Demochroa indica indica based on the subspecies distribution map of Hołyński (2009).

Description:

Sex unknown (Fig. 4 ): Body trichromatic and shiny. Pronotum transverse, bicoloured, dark green with two purple longitudinal stripes on lateral margins; anterior margin nearly straight; lateral margins concave at half of the base; posterior margin bisinuate. Scutellum not distinct. Elytra tricoloured, dark green with two large, transverse, white stripes behind the middle, terminal areas purple; widest behind half of the elytra, each elytron with four convex costae; apical half of lateral margins serrated, apices of elytra nearly truncate with one spine at apex of each elytron. All tibiae metallic green.

Figures

Figure 4. A crushed individual of Demochroa (Demoxantha) gratiosa Deyrolle, 1864 from Yingjiang, Yunnan Province; the photo taken by Lu Qiu in Nabang Town on 3 June 2018.