Eucorydia gemma
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Ordo: Blattodea
Familia: Corydiidae
Genus: Eucorydia
Name
Eucorydia gemma Hebard, 1929 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Eucorydia gemma Hebard, 1929: 98 (male holotype, “Fort de Kock, Sumatra”); Hanitsch 1929[1]: 288 (6 examples, “Fort de Kock, 920m”), with a comparison with E. coerulea; Bruijning 1948[2]: 149 (2 males and 1 sex unknown from Amsterdam Museum, “Fort de Kock, Sumatra”); Princis 1953[3]: 203 (1 female, from Java); Princis 1963[4]: 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[5]; Hanitsch 1929[1]; Bruijning 1948[2]) 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 length×width 2.9–3.0×3.9–4.2 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)[3] 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.
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 11. A–N Eucorydia species outside China A–G E. aenea: A–C lectotype of Corydia aenea, male D–E male, from east India F–G female, from Palon, Myanmar [A–G © by Natural History Museum Vienna, NOaS Image Collection, Harald Bruckner, published with permission] H–K E. forceps: H–J holotype of Corydia forceps, male [H–J photographed by Katherine Child and provided by Amoret Spooner, copyright Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oxford (OUM)] K original figure of Corydia forceps in Hanitsch (1915)[6] L–N holotype of Eucorydia gemma, male [L–N provided by Jason Weintraub, copyright by the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia, United States (ANSP)]. Scale bars 10 mm, A–G, K without scale bar.](/wiki/File:Zookeys-5555-017-g011.jpg)
Other References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Hanitsch R (1929) Fauma Sumatrensis. (Beitrag No. 63). Blattidae. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 72: 263–302.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Bruijning C (1948) Studies on Malayan Blattidae. Zoologische Mededelingen 29: 1–174.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Princis K (1953) Kleine Beiträge zur Kenntnis Blattarien und ihrer Verbreitung. VI. Entomologisk Tidskrift 74: 203–213.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Hebard M (1929) Studies in Malayan Blattidae (Orthoptera). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 81: 1–109.
- ↑ Hanitsch R (1915) Malayan Blattidæ. Journal Straits Branch Royal Asiatic Society 69: 17–178.
