Eucorydia coerulea
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Ordo: Blattodea
Familia: Corydiidae
Genus: Eucorydia
Name
Eucorydia coerulea (Shelford, 1906) – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Corydia coerulea Shelford, 1906: 272 (male holotype, “Mt. Matang, 3000 feet”); Hanitsch 1915[1]: 125; Hanitsch 1923[2]: 466.
- Eucorydia coerulea: Hebard 1929[3]: 14; Bruijning 1948[4]: 41, 149; Princis 1963[5]: 81.
Type material examined
HOLOTYPE of Corydia coerulea, male (OUM, TYPE ORTH 203), MALAYSIA: two same labels: “N. W. BORNEO, Sarawak, about 3500 ft., Mt. Matang, nr. Kuching. Coll. June. 00. Pres. 1905 by the Sarawak Museum.”; “TYPE. ♂. R. SHELFORD, Corydia Coerulea. T. E. S., Lon., 1906, p. 272-3.”; “Matang, 3600/ June 189 1900”; “Eucorydia coerulea Princis, 1963”; “1905/ 599”; “TYPE ORTH: Corydia coerulea Shelford./ HOPE DEPT. OXFORD”.
Diagnosis
Male overall length 13.5 mm, tegmen length 10 mm (Shelford, 1906). Body in dorsal view brilliant metallic blue. Head slightly metallic blue. Tegmina metallic blue, with some obscure orange spots on the disc (Shelford, 1906), each lateral margin of tegmina with an elongate, narrow yellow spot. Wings blackish, hyaline. Mesonotum and metanotum purplish brown. Legs slightly metallic blue. Abdomen orange both in dorsal and ventral view, in dorsal view, the last three segments metallic blue, subgenital plate bright metallic blue.
This species is similar to E. aenea, but its tegmina has no white pubescence, the last three segments of abdomen are much more metallic than those of E. aenea, and the remaining segments of abdomen are totally orange while E. aenea has the median of the abdomen blackish.
Distribution
Malaysia: Sarawak.
Taxon Treatment
- Qiu, L; Che, Y; Wang, Z; 2017: Revision of Eucorydia Hebard, 1929 from China, with notes on the genus and species worldwide (Blattodea, Corydioidea, Corydiidae) ZooKeys, (709): 17-56. doi
Images
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![Figure 12. A–I Eucorydia species outside China A–C holotype of Corydia coerulea, male D–F holotype of Eucorydia tristis, female [A–F photographed by Katherine Child and provided by Amoret Spooner, copyright Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oxford (OUM)] G–I original figures of Eucorydia multimaculata in Bruijning (1948)[4], male: G tegmen H wing I head. Scale bars 10 mm.](/wiki/File:Zookeys-5555-017-g012.jpg)
Other References
- ↑ Hanitsch R (1915) Malayan Blattidæ. Journal Straits Branch Royal Asiatic Society 69: 17–178.
- ↑ Hanitsch R (1923) Malayan Blattidae. Part II. Journal Straits Branch Royal Asiatic Society 1: 395–474.
- ↑ Hebard M (1929) Studies in Malayan Blattidae (Orthoptera). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 81: 1–109.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Bruijning C (1948) Studies on Malayan Blattidae. Zoologische Mededelingen 29: 1–174.
- ↑ Princis K (1963) Blattariae: Suborde Polyphagoidea: Fam.: Homoeogamiidae, Euthyrrhaphidae, Latindiidae, Anacompsidae, Atticolidae, Attaphilidae; Subordo Blaberoidea: Fam. Blaberidae. In: Beier M (Ed.) Orthopterorum Catalogus. Pars 4. Uitgeverij Dr. W. Junk’s-Gravenhage, 77–172.
