Revision of Eucorydia Hebard, 1929 from China, with notes on the genus and species worldwide (Blattodea, Corydioidea, Corydiidae)
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Qiu, Lu
Author
Che, Yan-Li
Author
Wang, Zong-Qing
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Eucorydia
ornata (Saussure, 1864)
Figs 13
A-G
; 14
J-K
Melestora
ornata
Saussure, 1864: 341 ("India, Bombay");
Walker 1868
: 60.
Corydia ornata
:
Saussure 1869
: 280;
Walker 1870
: 9;
Kirby 1904
: 167.
Eucorydia ornata
:
Hebard 1929
: 98;
Princis 1963
: 83.
Corydia plagiata
Walker, 1868: 58;
Kirby 1904
: 167;
Hanitsch 1927
: 41. Syn. n.
Eucorydia plagiata
:
Princis 1950
: 203;
Princis 1957
: 90;
Princis 1963
: 83.
Corydia elegans
Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893: 39 ("Carin
Cheba
(900-1100 m.)").
Type materials examined.
HOLOTYPE of
Corydia ornata
, male (GMNH), INDIA: "Indes orient./ M.H de Saussure/ ♂", "Corydia westwoodi Gers/ Indes./ var.", "Corydia ornata ♂/ Sauss.", also with a description script, all information is in handwriting. LECTOTYPE of
Corydia plagiata
, female (NHM, No. #876270), a round label: "48/ 22", a round blue emarginated label:
"LECTO-TYPE"
, a red label: "Lectotypus/
Corydia plagiata
Walker ♀ (handwritten)/ K. Princis 1956 (handwritten)", "plagiata (handwritten)".
Diagnosis.
Male overall length nearly 15.0 mm (including tegmina), female overall length about 11.5 mm. Pronotum black, slightly dark bluish, each lateral border with one elongate yellow spot. Tegmina yellow, with pattern similar to that of
E. westwoodi
; lateral margin of tegmen with an elongate blackish brown stripe that originates from the base and extends to the middle of tegmen margin; the apical portion curves inward and apex becomes bulbous, the distal portion of anal area with an large blackish oval spot, apex of tegmina brownish. Some individual with the yellow areas of tegmina reduced, and occupied by large blackish brown markings. Legs brown to dark brown, slightly bluish, abdomen yellow, with apical portion brown.
Figure 13.
A-K
Eucorydia
species outside China
A-G
E. plagiata
:
A-C
holotype of
Corydia ornata
, male [
A-C
photographed by Peter Schwendinger, copyright Museum of Natural History, Geneva, Switzerland (GMNH)]
D-F
lectotype of
Corydia plagiata
, female [
D-F
photographed by Zong-Qing Wang, copyright by The Natural History Museum, United Kingdom (NHM)] G original figure of
Corydia elegans
in Brunner von Wattenwyl (1893)
H-K
E. maxwelli
:
H-J
type of
Corydia maxwelli
, female K original figure of male
Corydia maxwelli
in
Hanitsch (1915)
[
H-J
photographed by Katherine Child and provided by Amoret Spooner, copyright Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oxford (OUM)]. Scale bars 10 mm.
Figure 14.
A-D
habitats of
E. linglong
sp. n.: A male, Manhao, Yunnan B male, Cuc-Phuong National Park, Vietnam C female, Shuolong, Guangxi D environment in Shuolong, Guangxi
E-I
habitats of
E. dasytoides
: E habitat in Mingfenggu, Mt. Jianfengling, Hainan F a female with ootheca under lab conditions G a male from Taiwan H a nymph under lab conditions I a newly captured male from Mt. Jianfengling
J-K
E. ornata
from India: J male from Madhya Pradesh K female from Maharashtra
L-N
habitats of
E. hilaris
: L male from Lvchun, Yunnan
M-N
newly-collected female and the tree where captured,
Pu'er
, Yunnan [Photograph A by Jin Chen; B by Eduard Jendek; C by Ye Liu; D by Yi-Zhou Liu; G by Dash Huang;
J-K
by Aniruddha Dhamorikar; L by Jian-Yun Wang;
M-N
by Chao Li; the rest by Lu Qiu].
Remarks.
This species was originally recorded from Bombay, India (
Saussure 1864
). Brunner von Wattenwyl (1893) described
E. elegans
from Carin
Cheba
, Myanmar, but this was later synonymized under
E. ornata
by
Kirby (1904)
. We did not examine the type specimens of
E. elegans
, but the original description and illustration of
E. elegans
are in agreement with the type specimen of
E. plagiata
; thus we consider
Kirby's
synonymy (1904) reasonable. After examining the type of
E. ornata
and
E. plagiata
, we found the two types to have the same marking pattern, and the pronotum all with two elongate spots on the borders; thus we treat
E. plagiata
as a junior synonym of
E. ornata
.
From the original description of
E. westwoodi
, we found
E. ornata
quite similar to
E. westwoodi
by its tegmina marking. Yet they exhibit a distinct difference on the pronotum. The former has its pronotum with yellow elongate spots laterally, while the latter has a unicolored pronotum.
E. ornata
may be one variation of
E. westwoodi
, or a subspecies. We temporarily maintain them as two species since current knowledge is too limited to solve the problem.
Distribution.
India: Bombay; Myanmar.