Revision of Eucorydia Hebard, 1929 from China, with notes on the genus and species worldwide (Blattodea, Corydioidea, Corydiidae)
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Qiu, Lu
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Che, Yan-Li
Author
Wang, Zong-Qing
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Eucorydia gemma Hebard, 1929
Fig. 11
L-N
Eucorydia
gemma
Hebard, 1929: 98 (male holotype, "Fort de Kock, Sumatra");
Hanitsch 1929
: 288 (6 examples, "Fort de Kock, 920m"), with a comparison with
E. coerulea
;
Bruijning 1948
: 149 (2 males and 1 sex unknown from Amsterdam Museum, "Fort de Kock, Sumatra");
Princis 1953
: 203 (1 female, from Java);
Princis 1963
: 82.
Type material examined.
HOLOTYPE of
Eucorydia gemma
, male (ANSP, #8704), INDONESIA: "Fort de Kock. (Sumatra) 920M/ December. 1921/ leg.
E.
Jacobson.", a red label: "Eucorydia gemma TYPE, Hebard ♂ 1147/ HEBARD CLN.", "Type No. assigned April 2008./ Type # 8704".
Other material examined.1 female (NRM), INDONESIA: Java, with determination label "Eucorydia gemma Heb., ♀, K. Princis det, 1952"
Diagnosis.
Consulting the former descriptions (
Hebard 1929
;
Hanitsch 1929
;
Bruijning 1948
) and the holotype re-examined, this species is characterized as follows: body length 8.0-8.7 mm, overall length 10.4-11 mm, tegmen length 8.0-8.5 mm, pronotum
lengthxwidth
2.9
-3.0x3.9-
4.2 mm. Small size, metallic bluish green, tegmen with a narrow orange streak on the costal margin, basal third of anal area with greyish white pubescence, right tegmen where covered by the left shiny purple, mesonotum, metanotum and 1-4 abdominal terga purple, the rest black, lateral borders of 3-5 abdominal sternites orange, abdomen shiny black in ventral view, lateral margins of segments 4 to 6 orange.
Remarks.
Besides the type locality,
Princis (1953)
recorded one female from Java as
E. gemma
.
Distribution.
So far this species is recorded from the type locality Fort de Kock, Sumatra, and Java.